by L. L. Muir
Her face dropped. He shouldn't have teased her.
“So, you came to save them—”
“Aye. And to spare ye as well.” He nudged her, urging her to smile with him.
Phinny came to sit to her other side. “Vivianne told us of the burden you'd been carrying. Why did you not come to me, Bridget? Did you think I was too young—”
“No, Phinny. No. Grandfather was still alive, but unwell. The baron convinced me that what happened on his land was his business, that he was God here and not even the king would question his right to deal with his people as he saw fit. If I'd come to you, I thought it would only haunt you because you'd be powerless to stop it.”
“And you didn't tell me.” Rory looked at the floor and nudged a bit of dirt back and forth with his boot while he waited for her answer.
“I didn't tell you because you hate all things English. I didn't want to give you one more reason…”
He looked up. “Unfair. I've recently come to love all things English.” He tried to tell her, with his eyes, that he'd really only meant her. The smile she gave him said she'd understood perfectly. He wrapped his arm around her shoulder and pulled her up against him and wrapped his free hand around one of hers, content to never let go of her again.
“Well, I have lost my love for England.” The priest found some volume for his voice. “In fact, I'm wondering if Scotland has room for one more man of the cloth.”
“No.” Rory shook his head as he stood. “You've hardly finished your duties here, Father. And I wish you'd see to it, man. We have plans for the afternoon.”
Bridget swallowed. “You do?”
“No, lass. We do.”
She smiled, hopeful. “We do?”
His grin wasn’t quite so innocent. “We do.”
“Then I pronounce you, Alistair Rory Macpherson and Bridget Kennison, man and wife.”
THE END
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
PROLOGUE
CHAPTER ONE
CHAPTER TWO
CHAPTER THREE
CHAPTER FOUR
CHAPTER FIVE
CHAPTER SIX
CHAPTER SEVEN
CHAPTER EIGHT
CHAPTER NINE
CHAPTER TEN
CHAPTER ELEVEN
CHAPTER TWELVE
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
CHAPTER NINETEEN
CHAPTER TWENTY
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
CHAPTER THIRTY
CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO
CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR
CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE
CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX
CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN
CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT
CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE
CHAPTER FORTY
CHAPTER FORTY-ONE
CHAPTER FORTY-TWO
CHAPTER FORTY-THREE
CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR
CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE
CHAPTER FORTY-SIX
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L.L. Muir lives in the shadows of the Rocky Mountains and uses a machete to defend her writing time from the hordes of children and dogs demanding she come out of her office to play. On the inside of that office door, she uses a cattle prod to keep her characters in line while they wait for their turn at the mic.
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