Highlander's Challenge by Jo Barrett

Author:Jo Barrett [Barrett, Jo]
Format: epub
Published: 2010-02-13T07:08:43+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Colin paced the battlements, irritated with the constant thought of her. He tried to cast her from his mind, but repeatedly found himself thinking of her, watching her, and listening to her read.

In an effort to drive her from his mind, he spent long grueling days pouring his energies into training the men, then making quiet, fairly safe raids on MacKenzie farms. Years of peace had weakened his clan's skills and he refused to risk their lives until absolutely necessary, but they were good lads and eager to strike back at the MacKenzies. He could not hold them back, so he appeased them with reiving. Yet were the MacKenzies the true enemy? Was someone trying to tear the island apart by pitting the clans against one another?

"Damn puzzles," he growled.

A war was at hand, and he could think of nothing but a stubborn female with lips like the sweetest heaven, a voice that spoke to his soul, when she chose to use it, and wearing trews. If he didn't regain control soon, his clan would pay for his weakness.

Time and again his mind replayed the way she'd strode into the great hall in a kilt, her long firm limbs plainly visible for the world to see. He wanted to throw her over his shoulder, storm back to her chamber, and explore every inch of her skin with his hands and lips. Madness, it was!

A light mist began to fall and he retreated inside, his determination firmly embraced. His fate was before him. He 185

Highlander's Challenge

by Jo Barrett

had to accept it, although he was not happy with the direction his life would take. Why had his expectations changed? Why did he find himself wishing he was not the man he was? He'd always known he would be laird one day. Why did he feel so differently about it now?

He hoped beyond hope that the answer would not have anything to do with Amelia. Aye, he could no longer think of her as Tuck, and never truly had, not when he whispered her name over and over in his dreams.

A shrewish voice echoed in the corridor answered by a deeper menacing one. He strode firmly onward, beyond his bedchamber and came to a stumbling halt before his father's open door.

"Why don't you find your broom and take flight," Amelia snarled.

Maighread raised her hand to strike her across the face, but Amelia quickly snatched her arm before she could deliver the blow and spun her around. She shoved his cousin across the room straight into his arms.

Wearing a wounded look upon her face, Maighread said,

"Colin, did you not see what she's done? She tried tae kill me so she can get tae your da. I tried tae stop her, I did." Why Maighread ever thought she could defeat Amelia was one of those female mysteries he'd yet to decipher. Not only was she a half foot taller than his cousin, she was faster and stronger. But what was she doing in his

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