Highlander's Rescue A Cree & Dawn Short Story (Cree & Dawn Short Stories Book 4) Read Online Free PDF Page A

let me know what you find within so that she suffers no harm when Torr and I rescue her.”
    Dawn eased her husband’s hand off her face and nodded, though they both were aware that if Dawn found Wintra in dire circumstances, she would not leave her. She would send word with Cathan to her husband.
    A wind suddenly whipped at them, as if in warning, and Dawn shuddered and rested her face on her husband’s chest as her arms circled him.
    Cree tucked her closer against him, though he would need to be inside her to be any closer and that was where he wanted to be, making love to her, warming every inch of her, loving her. “I love you, Dawn, never forget that.” He whispered what he had said since first meeting her, “You are mine. You belong to me and always will.”
    She eased away from him enough to gesture, letting him know that he belonged to her as well and always would.
    “Aye, that I do and though I never thought to belong to anyone ever—I have no argument with belonging to you.” He kissed her quickly, fearing if he lingered he would not deny himself or her from wanting more and now was not the time to be rushing her off into the forest for a fast poke. “Let us join the others, warm ourselves, and finish making plans.”
    Dawn eagerly followed beside him, feeling a chill that seemed to soak into her bones, and looking forward to the heat of a fire.
    Before he followed his wife into the cottage, Cree called out to his men to make camp.
    They drank a warm brew and while they talked, Ardit prepared a thick porridge that she promised would help to keep them warm throughout the cold night.
    “I would be grateful if my wife could share your cottage for the night,” Cree said.
    Dawn shook her head, seeing there was one bed that barely could hold one person. She did not know how three slept here.
    “I will not see you sleep on the snow and in the cold another night. You will stay here,” Cree ordered.
    Dawn shook her head again. Unless they were unforeseeably separated, they never slept apart and she would not start doing so now. Though, she would not say so in front of others. She would tell him later when it was time to bed down for the night.
    Cathan outlined a plan that sounded reasonable. They would seek entrance under the guise that word had reached them that an illness was fast spreading throughout the area. They would tell them of a potion they had that needed brewing and would help everyone there avoid the sickness. Since Netty did not know how to brew it, they would brew it and administer it to all, then be on their way. This would give them an accurate account of who occupied the keep and where Wintra was located within it.
    When they finished, Ardit and Cathan requested Cree’s help in taking a cauldron with the hot porridge out to his men to share. Ardit grabbed a ladle and the two bowls they had and followed Cree and Cathan outside.
    Dawn walked over to Torr, sitting on the edge of the bed. She ached for him, knowing the suffering he was going through. She had experienced it herself when Cree had been taken prisoner by a vengeful man and almost beheaded.
    Torr raked his hand through his hair, then shook his head. “I do not think I will ever sleep again, always fearing she will do something rash.”
    She shook her head and swiped two fingers against each other repeatedly.
    “Why do you believe she will never do it again?”
    She patted her stomach, then her chest, and then Torr’s chest.
    “She will love our child and me too much to do such a foolish thing again?”
    She nodded.
    “She did not love me enough to stop her foolish actions this time?”
    Dawn crossed fisted hands over her chest, opened her eyes wide, and shivered.
    “She was too fearful?”
    Dawn nodded again and tapped her stomach.
    “The bairn,” Torr said with a nod. “She worried so much that she would be alone when her birthing time came, even though women in the village assured her they would be there to help her. She