Lady Len and the Mysterious Mac by Rose Prendeville EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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STRATHPEFFER, ROSS, 1727
Silas MacKenzie was used to people staring. They couldn’t help
themselves, just like they couldn’t help offering all their unsolicited advice.
Like leaning too far over the edge of a cliff or taunting a feral boar, they
slung their wisdom from fifty paces, just to prove their bollocks’ worth.
Much like Goliath in the Book of Samuel, Si was feared on account of
his size, but he was also dismissed as simple and wild—from his first tutors,
and later, professors at King’s College, to his fellow scholars whose jaws
hung slack upon hearing any cogent rebuttal. And maybe they were right.
At any rate, strangers recoiled, even as they itched with a moral duty to
guide him, and now that he was back after seventeen years away, even his
own kin were as good as strangers.
Yet another stranger was the lass who had run terrified from the kirk,
escaping her own betrothal ceremony, drawn like a moth to his mother’s
grave. Each MacKenzie and Mackintosh present had an opinion on the
matter. Si watched her through the doorway, whilst everyone else watched
him. Wind rattled the eaves and benches creaked as they shifted restlessly,
waiting for him to do something but too afraid to say it for once. And why?
Because this time there was nothing to be done?
If he were silver-tongued like his father’s steward, or even warmly
commanding as the laird had been in his prime, before the ravages of war,
before succession and political exile had gotten their talons in him, then
perhaps he’d have stood a chance. But Si had never mastered the art of
endearing himself, preferring instead to shrink into the background, and
how well had that ever worked?
So there they were. The lass had taken one look at him and fled. Now
everyone stared at him, buzzing with unvoiced counsel on how to play the
part of laird and master and coax her back inside, to command her
obedience, when he had no business wedding the wee slip of a girl in the
first place. Lord knew she’d end up in the ground right alongside where she
was standing, because Silas MacKenzie broke everything he touched. If it
hadn’t been evident before her flight, she would surely work it out soon, as
she studied the cross-shaped headstone of Iona MacKenzie.
Blast and damnation. She was better off staying outside.
He sat beside his father, taking up far too much space in the tiny pew.
Like everything else, the benches were much smaller than he remembered.
His knees kept banging into the back of the next row, and he was all angles
and elbows, like the adolescent boy who had departed Ross so long ago.
What was it about coming back to a place you left behind as a child that put
you right back there, in time as well as space, making you feel more
immature than you ever had back then?
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