My Cursed Highlander
My Cursed Highlander
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FIRST EDITION
January 2012
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The Curse
Scotland, in the year of our Lord thirteen-hundred and eighty
"Kael?" Elise whispered her husband's name and dropped a bouquet of purple saffron. She shook her head in disbelief and choked on the sob filling her chest.
Twilight glistened off Kael's sweat-slicked back as he held another woman against the ancient stone—their stone—and thrust wildly between her legs. The musky scent of sex blended with the salty aroma of the sea. Waves slapped a hideous melody against the shore at the base of the cliff. Elise stood immobile, unable to turn away from the scene before her.
The woman propped herself up higher on the free-standing boulder and clasped her ankles around his buttocks. She leaned to the side and bit Kael's ear, her lips curling into a wicked grin. Glowing green eyes leered at Elise from over Kael's shoulder.
Elise stared at her, confused by her appearance; pale hair, gold lashes, high cheekbones. Her image mirrored Elise. Who was she?
The man Elise had called husband for nigh six months held tight to the woman's hips and drove a final thrust. A deep throaty moan Elise had heard often enough prefaced the whimpers coming from the female snake intimately coiled around him. His muscles rippled and his head fell back as he spent himself inside her.
The woman laughed—a tinkling bell-like giggle that cut Elise's ears and sliced through her heart. She gripped the amulet Kael had given her the day of their wedding and yanked it free from her neck. He'd vowed to be faithful. He lied. He betrayed her.
"Ye bastard!" she yelled.
Drawing deep breaths, Kael whipped his head to the side. Dark brows dipped low above blue eyes filled with confusion and distance. He searched her face then offered a fleeting glance toward the woman he was still buried inside. "Elise?"
Seething with anger, Elise felt cool tears fall over her hot cheeks and wished her father had never given her to the leader of Clan Kraig. "Damn ye and your clan! Ye are a liar. May you and all those who share your blood be cursed for eternity." She threw the amulet at him.
The woman shot out a hand and caught it in midair. Kael jerked out of her as she spread her naked form over the massive bolder and chanted words of the old language. Words of black magic. She arched her back and raised her hand above her. Purple rays of light beamed out of the fist wrapped around the amulet.
"So shall it be done, dearest Elise, and may ye be forever blinded by the truth."
Part I
Chapter 1