Sadie's Highlander by Maeve Greyson

Author:Maeve Greyson
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2017-09-12T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

“Ye’ll be takin’ yer sister with ye today.” Sarinda didn’t look up from the tattered pages of an old herbal journal spread open beside her bone china cup and saucer. “I’ve had my fill of that child’s sulkin’.” She gracefully lifted the teacup, took a proper ladylike sip, then peered at Alec over the cup’s delicate gilded rim. “It’s time ye spent a day or so with the wee beastie ye created.”

“I created?” Hell’s bells. He was havin’ enough difficulties managin’ Sadie. The last thing he needed was a surly bairn shackled to his side. “I didna create that snarlin’ wee vixen.”

“Aye. Ye did.” Sarinda returned her cup to its saucer and snapped her book shut. She glared around the breakfast table with a look that made all the MacDara sons squirm in their seats. “The lot of ye did. Ye’ve catered to her every whim since the first moment she drew breath.” Sarinda stood and pushed her chair up to the table. “And now we’re all reapin’ what ye’ve sown, and it’s your responsibility to help Esme become the fine young woman I know she’s destined t’be.”

“Alec spoils her the most,” Ramsay interjected between mouthfuls of the biscuit-and-bacon sandwiches he clutched in both hands.

“Aye,” Grant agreed. “Alec’s the worst, Máthair. Well…” He paused and nudged the brother to his right. “Ross might be a tad worse. He’s no match for wee Esme’s crocodile tears.”

“Leave me out of this,” Ross advised with a shake of his shaggy blond head.

Before Alec could respond with an argument that he knew in his heart would do him no good, Esme and Sadie entered the kitchen, so engaged in animated conversation that neither of them noticed anyone else in the room.

“He’s that afraid of spiders?” Esme snorted out a sound that fell somewhere between amusement and amazement at the idiocy of the subject of their conversation.

Sadie plopped down in the chair Alec held out for her, not taking her attention from Esme. “Hates all bugs. Taggart ‘The Mountain’ Teason squeals like a six-year-old girl if a ladybug lands on his arm.”

“Who is this Taggart ‘The Mountain’ Teason?” Alec asked, jealousy setting fire to his blood as he stiffly returned to his seat.

Both Esme and Sadie looked at him as though he’d just asked who his own mother was.

“Taggart ‘The Mountain’ Teason?” Esme repeated, saying the name louder, enunciating each syllable slowly as though she thought him either deaf or diminished betwixt his ears. “The leader of the zombie hunters in Dead or Deader?”

“Zombie hunters,” Alec repeated with a disgusted huff. Now he kent what they were talking about. That disgusting waste of time he had made the mistake of watching with Esme not so long ago. “Why do ye watch such things? I’ve half a mind to have that television removed from yer room.”

“You’ve got half a mind all right if you think you’re getting my TV.” Esme flounced back in her chair, fixing Alec with such a dark look he should’ve been incinerated on the spot.

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