The MacLomain Series: Later Years by Sky Purington

Author:Sky Purington
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Time travel
Published: 2016-09-28T21:00:00+00:00

Chapter Three

“I DON’T SEE WHAT THE big deal is about me wearing this ring,” Erin mumbled.

“’Tis not safe hanging around your neck such as it is,” Grant said. “It could too easily be lost.”

“This chain is pretty strong,” she tried to reassure yet again. “It’s not going anywhere.”

“But it will, lass. Easier than you might think.” The chain suddenly fell, but he caught it. “See?”

“Don’t mind him,” an attractive older woman said as she joined them. “My husband tends to take matters into his own hands on occasion.” Her eyes fell to the chain he held. “Literally.” She held out her hand to Erin. “I’m Sheila. A Broun originally from the twenty-first century.”

Ah, this was one of Leslie’s cousins who had traveled back in time early last year. Regrettably, time went by far quicker here and while Leslie was pushing thirty, her cousins who stayed with the Next Generation of MacLomains in the medieval period were in their fifties. Something about the past trying to catch up with the future.

Erin shook Sheila’s hand. “Nice to meet you.”

“You too.” Sheila slid an arm around Grant’s lower back and kept smiling. “Bear with him. He tends to forget how daunting it is for us Brouns to travel back in time.” She nodded at the ring and then held out her hand so Erin could see. “I wear one too. Trust me, they won’t bite.”

She had paid attention to everything Nicole told her when she first arrived here. These were Darach’s parents. Erin was amazed by the transformation in Grant’s body language once Sheila arrived. He went from being tense and serious to warm and relenting.

“She’s right, the rings won’t bite,” said another older woman as she sat on the other side of Grant. With silver wisps in her dark multi-colored hair, she was as attractive as Sheila. And her smile was just as warm when she held out her hand. “I’m Torra MacLoed, formerly Torra MacLomain.”

Rònan’s mother.

Erin swallowed, cursing the emotions she kept well-disguised. Why hadn’t meeting Darach’s mom affected her like this? Then again, there was something very different about this woman. Like Grant, she seemed to look right inside Erin’s soul with her piercing blue eyes.

They possessed an unnatural wisdom.

Sheila sighed and looked at Grant and Torra. “Sorry but you two at once is a bit much for any newbie time traveler.”

“No, it’s okay,” Erin murmured as her muscles unlocked and she relaxed beneath Torra’s gaze. She shook the woman’s hand. “Nice to meet you.”

“Will you not reconsider Grant’s request, and wear the ring?” Torra said, her voice almost hypnotic in its softness...sweetness.

But I stole it. It’s not mine. So no.

Yet she pulled it off the chain and slid it on her finger. “Of course. No problem.”

A soft smile came to Torra’s lips. “See, that wasnae so bad, aye?”

Grant said nothing but he seemed far more pliable as he kissed Sheila’s temple. Yet she didn’t miss him removing the chain from her lap nor the interested yet very slight perk to his brow when Rònan joined them.

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