My Highland Enemy by Miriam Minger EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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WEST STRATHNAVER, SCOTLAND, 1313
“Your bride approaches, Alec. Cease with your disgruntled countenance
and accept King Robert’s decree that you wed today tae end the blood
feud between the Sutherlands and Mackays. He demands peace between our
clans as a sign of loyalty and he awaits word of your marriage. Give the lass
a smile of welcome, damn you!”
Alec Mackay could no more have smiled at that moment than quell his
urge to kick his snorting mount into a gallop and leave this wedding debacle
far behind him…no matter his father’s stern command. For all of his talk of
peace and loyalty, Donald Mackay, the chieftain of the westerly branch of
their clan, didn’t look so welcoming, either, the size of the well-armed
retinue accompanying the bride twice the number they had expected.
Thirty Sutherland warriors appeared as grim-faced as Donald and the
dozen Mackay kinsmen who had ridden out from the castle to greet their
long-time enemies. All were heavily cloaked against the cold November
wind, Alec’s gaze drawn to the hooded young woman astride a milk-white
mare at the center of the entourage.
Flame-colored strands of hair fluttered around her face and her chin was
lifted as if in defiance…and only then did Alec notice her wrists were
bound in front of her and a thick rope tied around her waist that lashed her
to the saddle.
God help them, his bride no happier at the prospect of their imminent
wedding than he had been since his clansmen had arrived at Douglas Castle
two weeks ago to accompany him back to Strathnaver.
His two-year respite from the constant warring of his clan with the
Sutherlands ended when he had reluctantly bid farewell to his cousin Roger
Douglas, his kindhearted English wife, Julianna, and their young family.
Och, there had been strife enough in North Lanarkshire as well, but what
Alec faced now was a different conflict altogether.
He knew little of Rowen Sutherland than that she was twenty years old
and the only daughter of Hamish, the chieftain of the most powerful sept of
that clan—and whom Alec guessed to be the burly warrior riding next to
her.
The man’s hair and bushy beard as fiery red, and with the same intense
blue eyes as Rowen’s, which bored into Alec’s with disdain now, her chin
lifting higher.
From what he could see of her face beneath the fur-trimmed hood,
Rowen was bonny, aye, he couldn’t deny it, but what did that matter? Their
clans were ancient enemies and their marriage being forced upon them,
which was a perfect recipe for discord and unhappiness.
Again, Alec thought of bolting past all of them, but he had sworn
loyalty, too, to Robert the Bruce and was honor-bound—like his father and
Hamish—to accept the king’s decree that came with the windswept castle
behind him and Mackay warriors to command.
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