Jake by Keira Montclair

Author:Keira Montclair [Montclair, Keira]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Highland
Published: 2016-06-02T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

“Aline! Agree!” Jake shouted. “You recall my promise?”

“Shut him up!” Hew bellowed.

The fool who’d punched him pulled out a dagger and held it to his throat. He tried to speak again, but the dagger pierced his skin.

Gordon spun around to face him. “Speak again, Grant, and I’ll beat her to a bloody pulp in front of your eyes.”

Jake held his tongue, but he caught her gaze, trying to silently convince her not to give in to the bastard. Yet how could she leave her wee sister with such a man? How could she be forced to choose?

When Aline glanced at him, he could see the apology in her gaze. He blinked at her, telling her he understood the choice she had to make, that he would do the same in her position. She crumpled against Gordon, sobbing, barely able to speak because she cried so hard. “Hew, I’ll not leave you. I’ll do as you ask. Please, please. I’ll stay.”

“You promise to do as I ask?”

“Aye, aught. Please do not hurt Maisie, though. Do not hurt her, and do not hurt Jake.” She sobbed with such abandon, Jake felt even more desperate for the chance to make her tormentors pay.

Hew called another of his men over and pushed Aline toward him. “Take her to my chamber and lock her inside.”

His man scooped her up and took her toward the keep. “Forgive me,” she called out, and Jake knew this time she was speaking to him. “I’m so sorry.”

Jake’s gaze followed her until she turned toward him, and he did his best to tell her with his eyes that he understood, that he’d be back, that Hew Gordon would not get the best of him or the rest of the Grants.

“I’m sorry, I’m so sorry.”

Her whimpering stuck a knife in his heart, and the desire to protect her possessed his entire being.

She was almost inside the keep when Hew bellowed, “Kill him, but take him outside the walls so he doesn’t smell. Leave him where the buzzards can have at him afterwards.” He pitched his voice to ensure he’d be heard.

Echoes of Aline’s screams carried to Jake on the wind. They moved toward the front of the keep only to be stopped by a man in a helm. The chief—it had to be. Blinking his eyes to get as much vision as he could through the blood pouring from a cut on his brow, Jake poured all his effort into identifying the man. But the helm hid too much for him to verify his uncle’s suspicions.

“What the hell are you doing, Gordon? I need your men practicing!” He came closer, but still stood a distance away, his hands on his hips.

“We captured an intruder. He came over the curtain wall.” Hew tipped his head in Jake’s direction.

“Alone?” the chief chortled. “What a fool. Who the hell is he?”

“Does it matter? I’m having my men dispose of him outside the wall.” Hew moved forward, gesturing for his men to follow him, but then stopped.

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