King of the Isles by Debbie Mazzuca

Author:Debbie Mazzuca
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781420110074
Publisher: Kensington
Published: 2012-01-03T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

Ignoring Evangeline’s desperate plea to listen to her, Lachlan dragged her into the stables. “Out!” he ordered the two lads, who gaped at him before fleeing through the open doors. “Now, explain to me what it is I doona understand.”

“I had no choice, Lachlan. You weren’t fully recovered and ... and I couldn’t risk leaving Uscias in Magnus’s hands any longer than—”

“Are ye tellin’ me ye kent Iain had been injured and didna lift a bloody finger to help him?” Nay, even as he asked the question he knew she couldn’t have done such a thing. She’d have to be heartless, devoid of all feeling to commit such a heinous act. Evangeline was neither.

“You’re not listening. I wasn’t even certain Aurora’s vision could be trusted. It was the first time she had one when she wasn’t in a trance.”

She took his stunned silence as permission to continue. “Even if I thought it could be, there was no way to know where he was and I couldn’t leave you.”

His heart thudded painfully in his chest, his clenched jaw ached. “And when ye kent I had recovered, why not then? Why did ye no’ tell me then?”

She bowed her head then raised her eyes to his. “I had to make a choice. We could not spare the men or the time. It was either save Iain or save the Fae from certain death if Magnus uncovered Uscias’s secrets. No matter my feelings for Iain, I couldn’t—”

“Feelin’s? Ye have no feelin’s. Ye’re a heartless bitch. I was a fool to trust ye. Yer father was right.”

She gasped as though he’d plunged a knife in her heart. He clenched his hands into fists lest the fragile reins he held on his temper snapped and he shook her within an inch of her life. As though she sensed his intention, she backed into the stall behind her.

“I’m goin’ to Dunvegan. When I return, I want ye gone from here.” He took a menacing step toward her. “I’m warnin’ ye, doona let me see ye again or I willna be accountable fer what I do. Do ye understand me?”

“Yes ... yes, I do.” She made no effort to wipe away the tears tracking down her colorless cheeks.

“Ye’re good, Evangeline, one might actually believe ye cared.” Lachlan ignored the dull ache in his chest at her devastated demeanor. He strode from the stables past Fallyn and her sisters, who were headed toward them. Not bothering to acknowledge them, he kept walking. If they thought he was a surly bastard before, it would be nothing to what they would think of him if he actually stopped to speak to them as they appeared to want him to.

Broderick, who’d been trailing behind the women, smirked. “I see you’re being your charming self with the ladies.”

Lachlan held up his hand. “I’m no’ in the mood.”

Broderick’s brow furrowed. “I can see that.” His friend took hold of Lachlan’s arm as he proceeded to walk by him. “What’s happened?”

Shrugging off Broderick’s hand, he said, “I doona have time to waste.

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