“How could she have raised him? He’s older than her, is he no’? He looks older.”ĭonnan grinned and shook his head. “He is her first cousin and she did raise him after his parents died,” Donnan added.Ĭonran glanced at him with a start.

“Although Gavin is mayhap a little more important than most. “O’ course,” Conran murmured, relaxing, until the man continued. “Everyone here at Maclean is important to Lady Evina,” Donnan said solemnly. “He’s important to her, is he?” Conran asked, trying to sound uncaring, but aware that he was suffering a touch of a jealousy he really had no right to. “I’m a fast healer.”ĭonnan nodded, and then suddenly said, “Lady Evina would no’ have hit ye but she was worried about ye drowning Gavin.” The aching, thankfully, had ended shortly after waking. They both felt a little smaller than they’d been when he’d woken up here last evening. “Oh.” Conran raised a hand to feel the knot on the side of his forehead where Evina had slammed her sword hilt into him, and then to the one on the back of his head where he’d apparently hit it on falling off his horse. The woman smiled and nodded as she flew by and Donnan returned his gaze to Conran. “Good,” Donnan said, relaxing slightly and glancing around before gesturing at a passing servant. “He is no’ out o’ the woods yet, but his fever has gone down quite a bit.” “Better,” he said finally, realizing the soldier was still awaiting an answer. But this man had said and done a couple things while they’d worked at cooling down Fearghas last night that had made Conran think he might be an exception to that rule. Men of this soldier’s size generally didn’t have smarts to go along with their brawn. A huge bull of a man who he was coming to realize was as wise as he was big. He was taking up her hostess duties in her absence, she acknowledged with shame, and started down the stairs.Ĭonran glanced to the large man who had just settled on the bench beside him.ĭonnan. She watched Donnan approach the man and knew that he was doing so only because the Buchanan was all alone.

Unfortunately, her father had just ordered her to. She didn’t want to go anywhere near Rory Buchanan again.

The wrong highlander