Moning, Karen - Highland 01 by Moning Karen

Author:Moning, Karen
Language: eng
Format: epub

CHAPTER 18

"COME, LASS." THE COMMAND WAS TONELESS AND

UNMISTAKABLY dangerous. And even now, the mere word made her shiver with desire. The flush of heat stole her breath. "Hawk"

"Don't." The word was a warning. "Now. Take my hand."

What was he going to do? she wondered frantical y. Behind

her, she felt Grimm step closer, edging her toward the Hawk.

"Wait!" She held out a hand to ward him off.

"Move, milady," Grimm said softly.

"Don't lock me in a room!"

"How could I not?" Hawk sneered. "Knowing that you would go back to a place where it seems you knew little joyyet you would rather be there than here with me!"

"You don't believe I'm from the future!" she gasped.

"I'm beginning to," he muttered. "How do you think I knew about this?" The black queen glittered in his hand.

She shrugged. "How?"

"You, my sweet wife, talked about it when you were poisoned. Worried and fretted and tried to find it"

"But I only just remembered."

"Your sleeping mind remembered sooner."

"But how did you get it?"

It was Grimm who told her. "The Lady Comyn saw it fal from

your hand the night she claims you arrived."

"But how"

"Lady Comyn entrusted it to me after the wedding. I gave it to the Hawk."

"She admitted that you're not her blood daughter. I can see no reason why she would lie on that score." Unless Comyn keep is suffering some strange contagious madness, he thought grimly. "Wil it truly take you back to wherever you came from?" the Hawk asked careful y.

"I think so. As far as I can tel , it's what brought me here," she said, her gaze cast upon the cobbled walkway.

"And your plan was to get it and go home, lass? You planned to slip from Dalkeith, by yourself?"

"No! With your mother, Hawk!" she snapped absurdly. "Of course by myself!"

"So you were going to go to Comyn keep to get this chess piece and try to go back to wherever you came from? That was your plan this evening?" She missed the warning in his careful tone.

"Yes, Hawk. I admit it. Al right? I was going to try. I'm not

certain it wil work, but it's the last thing I had in my hand before I ended up here, and legend says the chess set is cursed. It's the only thing I can think of that might have done it.

If it brought me here, it might just take me back."

The Hawk smiled cool y. He turned the queen in his hand, studying it careful y. "Viking," he mused. "Beautiful piece.

Wel worked and wel preserved."

"Do you believe me now, Hawk?" She needed to know.

"That I real y am from the future?"

"Suffice it to sayI don't believe in taking any chances." He stil didn't quite believe, but infinitely better safe than sorry.

He turned sharply on his heel and stalked off toward the gardens. "Bring her, Grimm," he cal ed over his shoulder, almost as an afterthought.

But Grimm didn't have to take her anywhere. A thousand warning bel s clanged in her head, and she raced off behind him to catch up.

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