Silent Vows (MacCoinnich Time Travels) by Catherine Bybee

Author:Catherine Bybee
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Fiction
Publisher: Catherine Bybee
Published: 2013-01-12T11:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

A constant pounding on Todd’s door woke him up. He jumped out of bed, pulled on his shorts and yelled at whomever it was to hold their damn horses.

The door hit the wall with a crash. All Todd saw before a fist connected with his jaw was the blurry face of a bearded man. The punch threw him back three feet, another punch hit his right eye and had him landing on the floor.

“Get up!” the man yelled in a Scottish accent.

Todd was on his feet in a split second with his hands in front of him, ready for the assault.

Liz rushed into the house at a full run. “What the hell are you doing?” Todd’s lip was split and bleeding, his eye already swelling. She placed herself between them and turned. “Stop it.”

“Get out of the way, lass. This doesn’t concern you.”

“The hell it doesn’t, Fin MacCoinnich. I brought you here, and I will not be a part of any fighting.”

“Then move aside.” Fin’s eyes never left Todd’s.

Todd looked at Myra’s brother, wanting nothing better than to give him a taste of his own blood. It’s a hell of a thing waking up with someone else’s fist in your mouth. He realized then that this was Fin’s twisted way of protecting his sister.

Todd wiped the blood with the back of his hand, looked at it then said, “Cheap shot, MacCoinnich.”

Fin straightened his spine, lowered his hands slightly. “The next one will be even.”

“What is wrong with you?” Liz pushed Fin’s chest, which didn’t move even an inch. “You said you wanted to thank him, not beat him up.”

“I lied.”

Todd snickered. Like sister like brother. He lowered his fists as the tension passed.

“I’d like some coffee before we go another round.” Todd walked beyond the two of them and into his kitchen.

Todd splashed water on his face and winced at the sting behind Fin’s punch.

Now what?

He started a pot of coffee, went back into the laundry room, and tossed on a t-shirt and jeans. By the time he ran a comb through his hair, he was able to fill a half a cup of coffee before Lizzy’s heated words rose over the percolating pot.

“Why don’t you just take your damn stones and go?”

Good idea, he thought.

“I’ll go when I’m ready, love, and not a moment before.”

Todd wiped his hand across his mouth and moved back toward the room.

“Well you had just better get good and ready, because you’re not staying with me! And after this, I don’t think Todd’s going to want your company.”

“She has a point,” Todd said when he sauntered into the room.

Fin stood, only to be pulled back down by Liz. “Knock it off.”

“We’re not done,” he spat out.

“We are for now. What did you plan on doing? Drag me back to the sixteenth century to make an honest woman of Myra?”

Fin glared at him. “The thought did cross my mind.”

“Is that what Myra told you to do?”

“Nay, Myra only weeps day in and day out. She would never demand the hand of the man who ruined her.

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