Highland Healer (35 page)
She lowered her gaze from her beloved husband’s face, and then looked back, suddenly sad to remember that day.
Toran reached for her. He knew she still grieved for Ranald.
“Yer brother is gone, Aileana, and ye must mourn him. But yer life is here now, with me, with the clan,” Toran said, and put his big hand on her swollen belly, “and with our family. Colbridge’s death ended that part of your life, forever.”
Aileana nodded, and smiled up at her husband. “I am where I wish to be, and will be, always.”
“And did ye also speak to the child that Coira threatened?”
“Aye, but softly, very softly.”
“That’s a useful talent, my love,” Toran responded, “but never, ever, think to use it on me again. However,” he continued, “when our child arrives…all of our children,” he said and paused, grinning an evil smirk and quirking that eyebrow.
She gasped. “Who told?”
“Who do ye think?”
“Elspie, of course.”
“Aye. So, when the bairns are of an age to need their mother’s guidance,” Toran continued with a canny grin, “ye have the laird’s permission to use that talent at will. On them.”
A word about the author...
Willa Blair lives with her own romantic hero, her wonderful husband, and a calico cat who, after walking on her keyboard, sits on her desk and demands that she write “Meorw, meorw, more.”
Her stories are set in the Highlands of Scotland, home to some of her ancestors, in the difficult years after the 1513 Battle of Flodden Field. She explores the lives of her brave heroes and talented heroines as they fight to find and love each other, and to save their clans.
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