Scot of Lust (THE MACKINTOSH CLAN #4) by Juliana Wight EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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Present, The Seven Stars Inn
The smell of ale and wine permeated the air around Elayne. The inn was
small, the only one in the village, so she had no other options if she wanted
to be inside during the storm.
I should have listened tae me aunt an’ stayed with her at her cottage.
It would have surely been preferable to this, even if it would have delayed
her return home, but when she had left her aunt’s home, she had had good
reason.
Once again, she read the letter she held in her hands, the paper crumpled
from the number of times she had folded and unfolded it, clutching it tightly
between her fingers. It had arrived at her aunt’s cottage right before Elayne
had left, a warning from her best friend Isobel that her father had planned
her marriage to Laird McCoy in her absence.
I cannae believe he would dae such a thing.
Only, the more she thought about it, the more plausible it became. Her
father wanted to rid himself of her and gain as much land as he could, and
what better way to do that than marry her off to Laird McCoy? That way,
both men would get what they wanted—her father would have his lands and
he would never have to see Elayne again, and Laird McCoy could finally
force her into his bed without anyone else objecting to it.
But even fer me faither, this is too much.
Elayne slammed her hands onto the sticky table, the cup of ale in front of
her almost tipping over before she steadied it. She took a few long gulps,
though she had already had too much to drink. At the beginning of the
night, she had come down from her room to have one cup but now she had
already drained three and was well on her way through the fourth. She
couldn’t think of any other way to drown her sorrows or steel herself for the
conversation she was going to have with her father.
She would refuse to marry McCoy. She would do anything in her power to
prevent this wedding from happening or she would die trying.
But what can I dae? Me faither will never allow me tae say nay.
Maybe death really was her only other choice and compared to marrying
Laird McCoy, it seemed like the better option.
There was no one for Elayne to even turn to. Under any other
circumstances, she would have asked Craig for help or at least advice, but
he and Lachlan hadn’t made it to the inn yet. Perhaps the storm had delayed
them as they were returning to the cottage to bring her back home or
perhaps they had made it there and decided to spend the night, like Elayne
had, under a roof before resuming their travel the following morning.
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