Highlander's Burning Desire by Alisa Adams

Author:Alisa Adams [Adams, Alisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Highland
Published: 2019-02-27T16:00:00+00:00

Kendrick found that his business dealings were not going quite so well as before. News traveled fast, even in the rugged hills and poor roads of the Highlands, and Kendrick found that many of his clients were buying fewer of his commodities than before. In previous times, he could have depended on being offered a bed for the night at some of his wealthier clients' castles, but now, their doors were shut to him. Their greetings were cold and formal and only the barest courtesies were observed.

Of course, there were those who patted him on the back in commiseration that he had been thwarted of his plan to have two wives, so he did receive some hospitality. However, like rats deserting a sinking ship, they were lessening the size of their orders too, buying from other merchants, and Kendrick could see a day not too far in the future when he would go out of business entirely.

He had to come up with a plan to make his living in some other way, either honest or dishonest. He prided himself on his resourcefulness and knew that he would never starve. He had no compunction at all about stealing to make ends meet. He had used two women in the cruelest way possible, but if in future, he had to do the same thing again he knew that he would. God had decreed that the strongest would survive and in His wisdom, he had given Kendrick the ability to do just that.

When he returned to Mull, he almost expected Leann to be waiting for him at the door, but he realized that she would never do so again. In the depths of his black heart, even he could find a little sadness, but his chief emotion was self-pity for Kendrick's first love was Kendrick himself.

He spent his first two days back home in bed since he had caught a chill on the ferry crossing. Lizzie dosed him with hot toddies, beef tea, and peppermint tisanes for his stomach which always ached when he was sick. He slept a great deal and felt too miserable to get up. When he was awake, he was so irritable that he often reduced Jennie, Lizzie's daughter, to tears, even as she helped him to take care of himself and perform those duties for him that would have made lesser women sick.

It was the beginning of autumn, as the days were beginning to shorten, when he stepped outside again. If things became much worse, he would have to sell the house and dismiss the servants. He would try one more trip and since there was no Leann on the island to assuage his body's needs, he decided to leave within the week. The ferry came and went on Fridays and it was now Tuesday, so time was of the essence. He racked his brains to think of some other scheme to make him money then, as he was sipping one of Lizzie's mint tisanes, it came to him.

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