Midnight's Captive by Grant Donna

Author:Grant, Donna [Grant, Donna]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Paranormal, General, Romance, Fantasy, Historical, Fiction, Time Travel
ISBN: 9781250017277
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2013-07-02T07:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE

Charon watched Laura carefully as he paused in his telling of the story. He had waited for her to turn from him, or tell him to stop. But she just returned his look.

“How long were you in Deirdre’s dungeons?”

“Too damn long,” he said, and turned his head to the side. “Time no longer seemed to matter as I had to fight every second of every day from letting Ranmond take over. Hearing him demand blood and death in my head constantly. It would’ve been so easy to give in.”

He expected her to be repulsed by his words. When she met his gaze, he continued. “Deirdre liked to use the threat of harming a Warrior’s family to get him to align with her. When I refused, she tortured me until I forgot the man I was. I let Ranmond take over for just a moment, but it was during that small space in time that she put my father in the dungeon with me.”

“Oh, God,” Laura murmured.

Charon sighed, but even after so many centuries, the pain of what he had done was still with him. “When I once more got control from Ranmond, I opened my eyes to discover I had killed my father. Deirdre threatened to toss in other members of my family if I didna spy for her.”

“Did you?”

“Aye. The thought of killing another member of my family, whether they were my immediate family or, years later, extended family, I couldna imagine it. So, I spied on Quinn, Ian, Duncan, and Arran for her. But I didna tell her everything.”

“You would’ve been strong enough not to kill anyone she put with you.”

“Was I?” he asked softly. “I’m no’ so sure. I have control of Ranmond now, but the droughs always seem to know what to do so that I lose that control.”

“You’re here with the MacLeods now. They’ve forgiven you.”

Charon shrugged. “Perhaps. I have no’ forgiven myself though.”

“Is that why you didn’t tell me who you really were?”

“I kept all of this from you no’ because you’re a woman, but because I didna believe you a Druid.”

“Others in Ferness know what you are.”

He wished it otherwise, but the situation had been out of his control. “Aye. When Deirdre sent her wyrran, I had no choice but to defend the village.”

“Where is Deirdre now?”

“Dead. As is Declan Wallace, the man responsible for bringing Deidre forward in time.”

Laura tucked her feet beneath her. “If Deirdre was such a powerful drough, how was she defeated?”

“She underestimated us. Declan did the same, but we assumed Jason would be like Declan. He’s no’. Jason has a different strategy altogether.”

“Can Jason be defeated?”

Charon wanted to say yes, but he didn’t want to lie to Laura. She deserved the truth. “We’ll keep fighting him until he is dead.”

“What happens to me now?”

He’d spent too much time locked in a dungeon to ever want to place anyone he cared about in such a situation. But he wasn’t convinced Laura wasn’t working with Jason.

“Tell me what happened to your magic,” he urged.

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