Medieval Mistletoe by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Medieval
Published: 2014-11-20T08:00:00+00:00

FEAR fueled his blood.

Magnus clenched his fists and cracked his neck. He had to go. Had to ride. Had to be sure his children were safe. Bloody hell, but how could he have missed this? The trickery was so obvious now that he looked back on it, but when he’d read that the Sassenachs had taken Heather, his blood had run cold.

“I have to go. Now.” He cupped his wife’s cheek and pressed a fierce kiss to her lips before turning on his heel in search of his horse, Beast.

Blane had already gathered their men and they but waited for his signal to move out.

“Tobias, Ronald, stay behind to protect the women.”

“Wait! Magnus, you have to tell me who.” Arbella’s eyes were wide, her lips thin and he feared she was on the brink of hysteria. And he had no time to comfort her.

He shook his head, rushed forward to press his mouth to her cold lips and whispered, “There’s no time. But I will make certain our children are safe.” He leapt onto his horse and stared longingly at his lovely wife.

“Ride!” he bellowed. A nagging pulled at his gut. He hated leaving Arbella behind. Hated that he couldn’t be the one to protect her, but she was safer with the crofters, hidden within their homes. Tobias and Ronald would never let anyone touch her or her sister.

His men fanned out beside him, everyone on alert for an ambush. It’d taken them nearly five hours to arrive at the crofts and their horses had already been tired from that. This ride was grueling. Beast frothed at the mouth and a thick sheen of sweat covered his coat, but he didn’t complain, seeming to feel his master’s urgency. Thank the gods, for he would have driven the horse into the ground to get to his children in time.

The clouds had slipped back, like a curtain, revealing the moon which lit their way along the road.

Filled with tension, Magnus gritted his teeth. A month ago, a scout had spotted an English regiment walking through the south of Sutherland. He’d met them upon the road with his own impressive warriors, only to find out that the Captain of the English regiment had come with a message from Longshanks. The bloody English king had hoped to gather allegiance from Magnus, now an earl.

Of course, he’d denied it.

The denial had not gone over well with the damned Sassenachs, and to prove their point, they’d raided several of the villages lining the border. But after the Sutherland warriors had fought them off, they’d not returned.

Though it would be naïve of him to have thought the English were giving up their pursuit for his allegiance, he had thought they were putting it off. Nevertheless, he’d continued to double his scouts and inform all the villagers of the possibility of the English returning. What he’d not counted on, however, was the possibility that the Ross clan would be willing to give up their treaty in order to help the English bastards.

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