Return to Clan Sinclair (CLAN SINCLAIR #4) by Karen Ranney EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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July, 1880
Drumvagen, Scotland
Her driver slowed to a halt, no doubt getting an eyeful of Drumvagen and
the Scottish coast. Ceana would wager a goodly sum that by the time the
week was out, he would have posted a report of everything to her brothers–
in-law. The same intransigent, annoying, and beloved brothers-in-law who
were trying to render her as dead as her poor husband, Peter.
She’d been a widow for three years now, during which they’d been her
guardians. She couldn’t escape them. Wherever she went, one of the three
brothers was there.
“Do you need anything, Ceana?”
“Can I fetch anything from town for you?”
“Shall we order something from London?”
“You’re looking a little peaked, would you like to take the sun with me?”
They’d offered their arms, their interest, their help, and their eternal
interference.
So she had done what any self-respecting Scot would do when faced with
three Irish brothers-in-law: she’d run away from home.
She dismounted from the carriage, standing there staring in awe.
Granted, Iverclaire was a lovely place, an enchanted castle in Ireland,
quite a forbidding yet beautiful structure. But Drumvagen, this had been
created by her own brother.
They’d been so poor once upon a time, but Macrath had taken his dream
and made it come true. Because of him, she’d had a season in London and
had married the son of a duke.
Yet she always thought she had something to do with his happiness as
well. Her friendship with Virginia had led them to be introduced at
numerous events. When Virginia and Macrath were finally married after her
first husband died, she wasn’t the least surprised.
Nor was she the least surprised when Alistair, Virginia’s first child, looked
just like Macrath.
The seabirds called a greeting to her, swooping down on air currents
blowing the scent of the sea to her.
For days, she’d been alone in the carriage, encased in a bubble of silence.
Other than speaking to the driver first thing in the morning and when they
stopped for a meal, she hadn’t talked to another person.
At first she’d missed her daughters terribly. Then she realized the time
was her own, to think, to mull, to remember. When she went home, she’d be
a better mother to Darina and Nessa.
She stood at the base of the steps, staring upward. Virginia had told her
about Drumvagen, but even her description failed to convey just how
impressive the house was.
Built of gray brick sparkling in the sunlight, it was four stories tall with
rows of windows reflecting both the sun and the sea to her right. But most
impressive of all was the twin staircase beginning at the broad front doors
and curving down and around like arms reaching out to enfold her.
She took the right staircase and, with her left hand gripping her skirt,
placed her right on the broad stone banister, slowly ascending the steps.
At the top, she stopped and turned and looked at the ocean. Far off in the
distance was the North Sea. Drumvagen and its neighboring village,
Kinloch, was the perfect place for Macrath to live. From here he could
simply sail away to anyplace in the world he wished to be.
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