Highland Wolf EPB by Lynsay Sands

Author:Lynsay Sands [Sands, Lynsay]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2022-01-25T00:00:00+00:00

“’Tis beautiful.”

Claray blinked her eyes open at those words, her gaze immediately finding Kenna. The woman was sitting on her horse directly beside Conall’s horse, with her mother on her other side and her father next to her. Meanwhile, Claray was riding with her husband. Although that was a generous description since the horse presently wasn’t moving and she wasn’t doing anything like riding. The truth was she’d been sleeping in his lap throughout most of the five-day journey.

Claray had started every morning on Stubborn Bastard’s back with Lovey trotting along beside them, and if the MacKay ladies were feeling chatty, she could last for hours in the saddle. But once the talking slowed and stopped, she started to nod off and found herself dragged into Conall’s lap where she slept for the rest of that day’s ride. Which meant that when they stopped for the night, she was incredibly perky and wide awake, while everyone else was dragging themselves around and ready to collapse inside their plaids and sleep.

It had made for a long boring trip with days spent sleeping, and nights spent staring at the stars in the night sky. She’d spent her evenings wondering what her brother and sisters were doing, how her father was and if Edmund was doing all right tending all her creatures by himself. Claray had spent very little time thinking and wondering about her future home and new husband though. That was mostly because he was a cranky bastard when traveling and she was almost afraid to consider what shape Deagh Fhortan might be in.

Deagh Fhortan meant Good Fortune, but from what she could tell the MacDonalds had enjoyed precious little of that, and after twenty-two years of neglect, she suspected the castle would need a lot of what her mother had liked to call “love and attention.” Which translated to hard work and a good cleaning.

“Aye. ’Tis quite lovely from here,” Lady MacKay said, drawing her from her thoughts.

Claray turned to look at the scene ahead and below them and caught her breath with surprise. They were stopped on a hill, looking down over a large, lush green valley with Deagh Fhortan on a smaller hill at its center. And it could only be Deagh Fhortan since she doubted there were a lot of abandoned castles strewn about Scotland. This one was definitely empty. Nothing was moving and everything was green except where bits of a pale beige stone with a tint of red to it was peeking out. The castle was still there, its shape obvious, but it was covered with greenery, as was everything around it.

Trees, shrubs and grass filled the land where most castles would have a clear space to prevent attackers sneaking up on them. Trees and grass were also growing along what she guessed used to be the moat, but now was a bright green ring around the castle. There were also trees and shrubs and greenery filling the bailey, and some kind of vine seemed to be covering a good portion of the walls of the keep, the towers and most of the curtain wall.

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