With Every Breath by Lynn Kurland

Author:Lynn Kurland [Kurland, Lynn]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Jove Books
Published: 2012-06-02T05:29:30+00:00

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Chapter 20

It was well before dawn when Cameron walked to his stables. He'd dreamt of battle and bloodshed and all sorts of activities where a sword was useful, activities that certainly did not find themselves in the current century, activities that had led to a terrible night's sleep.

He wasn't sure if he should blame Sunshine Phillips for it, or thank her.

He'd come home after the day spent in Ian MacLeod's lists and looked in his locked closet for the first time in eight years. It had been a little startling, truth be told, to see nothing but a Claymore, three dirks, a saffron shirt, and a handwoven plaid—all that he had to show for his twenty-eight years of living in fourteenth-century Scotland.

He wondered what those MacLeods had locked up in their closets.

He couldn't imagine their wives didn't know exactly who and what their husbands were. There was the problem of wondering how Jamie, Patrick, and Ian had come to the future, but he was certain there was an answer to that as well. Perhaps knowing it would help him determine how he'd done it—since he couldn't remember a bloody thing about it himself. But he could remember with perfect clarity the last thing Sunshine had said to him.

I don't want to be the other woman.

He dragged his hand through his hair and cursed. He didn't want her to be that, either, but he wasn't precisely sure what he was going to do about it. He was trapped by his situation in London every bit as fully as he'd ever been trapped by his duty in medieval Scotland. He cursed quite heartily, but it didn't ease him any. Why couldn't he have met her sooner? It wouldn't have needed to have been that much sooner, perhaps. A pair of months.

Though the thought of her having been drawn into any of the madness that surrounded Nathan and Penelope Ainsworth sent cold chills down his spine.

He pushed aside that thought. He was in Scotland, he was safe for the day, and he could perhaps take another few hours and do what his heart begged him to. He opened the stable door, quickly saddled two horses, then walked them out into a fine, spring mist. He swung up onto his mount, then cantered south without hesitation. He would spend the day with Sunshine Phillips and see what was left of them both at the end of it.

There was already light streaming out from her kitchen window when he got there. He dismounted and left his beasts behind her house, then walked quietly to the front door. He prepared himself for the unpleasant sensation that would assault him when he crossed Sunny's threshold.

He wasn't prepared, however, for what happened to him when she answered his knock.

A déjà vu experience slammed into him so hard, he felt as if he'd been run over by a horse. He clutched at the door frame to keep himself from falling to his knees.

He had come to this house, knocked, and seen a woman open to him.

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