Reunited by Cassidy Cayman

Author:Cassidy Cayman
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Time travel
Published: 2013-12-03T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

“Do ye no’ understand?” Lachlan thundered, pacing the length of the kitchen as Piper, Sam, and Evie sat miserably at the plank table.

Evie took a bite of cracker and sniffled as Sam looked shell shocked. Piper had sent Danny home, admonishing him against calling the police, saying that she would do it, and begging the kid to keep his mouth shut so the village wouldn’t be alarmed.

She was surprised thirty people hadn’t banged on her front door by now, demanding answers. Danny must have been scared silent by Lachlan’s fierce glare when he’d ushered him out of the kitchen earlier.

“The barn and the sheep are related, you think?” Sam asked.

Lachlan put his head in his hands before answering. “All this time I never gave it a thought that I may be bringing people forward with me.” He stopped pacing and Piper rushed to his side and pulled him to the table, shoving him onto the bench.

She wrapped his hand around a small glass of whiskey. She’d broken out a bottle as soon as Sam and Evie arrived from the village. She’d only had a few sips to dull the fear and pain, but wanted to stay alert in case Lachlan took off for the woods. He was going crazy with guilt and blaming himself for every bad thing that had happened since he arrived.

“Someone from my time, or one o’ the times I mistakenly went. Someone must have been pulled here.” He looked at Piper. “I was a fool. I’m sorry, my love.”

“Stop,” she said. She looked at each of them in turn, daring any of them to disagree with her. “How could you have known it might happen?”

“I couldn’t have known, aye,” Lachlan agreed. He pulled her hand to his lips and kissed her knuckles. “Which is why I should never have tinkered with what I didna understand.”

“There’s no use in all this,” Sam said with an exasperated shrug. “It’s done. We must go from here and figure it all out.” He poured himself another whiskey and topped off Lachlan’s glass.

“Now I must have sent your stable man back,” Lachlan said, draining the glass.

Evie gasped and scooted closer to Sam. They might have all been thinking it, but it was the first time it was said out loud. No one wanted to believe it, but it was looking more and more like the only possibility.

The stable boys and the gardeners had looked all over the grounds. None of the horses were missing, and his truck was still here. His phone went straight to voicemail. Piper had called his mother and tried to be casual so as not to scare the woman, but she hadn’t seen him in few days either.

“I will leave at first light and retrieve him, send him back if I can,” Lachlan said after they sat in silence for several long minutes.

“Like hell you will,” Piper exploded, knocking back what was left of her drink. She barely felt the sting as it burned its path down her throat.

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