Foretelling His Future (TANGLED IN TARTAN #3) by Ann Marie Scott EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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A few years later…
Elvira Lovell was hiding in plain sight. The tavern was dimly lit,
the low candles flickering. Hushed whispers flitted back and forth
around the room. Elvira was sitting at a table in the corner. Her dark, curled
hair was pulled back, accentuating her strong cheekbones and full lips. A
cloak was draped around her shoulders and she leaned forward. Her olive
skin was a stark contrast to the pale-faced Highlanders that sat around her.
Ordinarily, a tavern like this would not have been a safe place for a 19-yearold girl, especially not one who was so different from the other patrons.
However, Elvira was special. Elvira had been invited for a particular reason.
Before her sat a quivering woman, her eyes filled with fear.
“I’m just sae worried for my boy. I dinnae want him tae be a cruel bully,
but it seems that’s the way all men grow up here.”
Elvira gently took the woman’s hand in her own. She traced the lines of
the palm, remembering all the lessons she had learned from her mother.
People often thought that there was some magic involved in this, as though
it was impossible for someone to master this skill who did not have Romani
blood flowing through their veins.
Perhaps, deep in the past, in the world
before this one, there had been magic. Such a thing had dwindled from the
world, Elvira thought. She was not a witch, even though the insult had been
thrown her way on more than one occasion. No, what she excelled at was
listening and observing. The lines of the palms helped guide her, but it was
not the only thing that helped.
“I’m sure that with a mother’s keen guidance, his compass shall always
point north. He is yer son, nae matter what. He always hae been, and he
always shall be. Remind him of virtues like kindness and love, and his heart
will nae harden like sae many others,” Elvira said.
The woman sighed with
relief and bowed her head, thanking Elvira profusely. She passed a few
coins Elvira’s way, and Elvira pocketed them quickly. The chair was
vacated and then filled quickly, this time by an older man. His clothes were
ragged, and the color had faded from his hair. His palm was wrinkled,
showing a life well lived.
“Are things ever gaeing tae get better?” he asked.
Elvira frowned a little. “In what sense?” she asked.
“The world. Am I gaeing tae see peace in my time? When I was a boy, I
remember things being far happier. The world was brighter. Things hae only
gotten worse as I hae gotten older, and just once I would like for things tae
be the way they were when I was young.”
Elvira traced the line of life on his palm, thinking to herself that he
probably didn’t have many years left. “Try and look at the world as ye did
when ye were a child. Ye were filled with wonder then, but that hae left ye
as ye hae gotten older. Perhaps it is nae the world that hae dimmed, but the
light inside of ye. Hae ye suffered a loss recently?”
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