Love Beyond Hope by Bethany Claire

Author:Bethany Claire [Claire, Bethany]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780989950275
Publisher: Bethany Claire Books

Chapter 19

What a moron. I truly didn’t think that he even believed what he said. Even so, any man should know better than to say something like that out loud to a woman, even if he thought it. It was like saying that he used me, but his actions had shown otherwise.

His words didn’t hurt my feelings. They just pissed me off. I just couldn’t understand his mindset. It was terrible that he’d been hurt, but if he thought no one else had ever had love bite them in the ass, he was delusional.

Maybe I was just a serial optimist. All of the modern conveniences that I had the pleasure of using throughout my life aside, I knew I had a harder life than him. He was a Scottish laird who grew up in a castle, for goodness sake. He had a mother and father who loved him. He’d never been poor.

I was an orphan who spent my childhood without family and with only one close friend. I’d not been born into a family filled with love, and I’d be paying off student loan debt for the rest of my life. I’d been burnt by love more than a few times myself, but never for a moment had I thought about just shutting myself off from all feelings or emotions.

His cowardice disappointed me, but I refused to let him put a damper on my day. I hadn’t seen Bri in over a year. I couldn’t wait to squeeze her neck and catch up.

The rest of the ride remained silent and awkward after the incident in the woods, but thankfully we were close to Conall Castle. As we approached the castle’s stables, there seemed to be few people about. I worried for a moment that perhaps they wouldn’t be home.

Baodan approached the stables and called out to who I assumed was the stable master. “Kip? Are ye in there?”

Inside the stalls, I knew the voice who answered us, and it wasn’t the Kip that Baodan called out to. I recognized it instantly as that of Bri’s look-a-like, Blaire.

“Is that ye, Baodan? What are ye doing…” she paused as she popped her head up out of the last stall and looked at me.

I could only hope Bri’s face would look half as surprised. I waved as I spoke to her. “Don’t worry. I won’t attack you this time.”

Baodan dismounted from the horse, and looked up at me in utter bewilderment. “Do ye know her, lass? That isna Bri, ye know.”

Blaire stepped out of the stall and made her way quickly over to Baodan, wrapping her arms around him as if he were her long lost brother. “Aye, she knows I’m not Bri. We’ve met before.”

“How?”

Baodan reached up to help me off the horse, but I wouldn’t take his hand. Instead, flipping over so that my belly touched the horse’s back, I slid off onto the ground.

Once I grounded myself, Blaire pulled away from Baodan and moved to give me a hesitant hug before stepping away.

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