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Excerpt of Highland Vow by Hannah Howell

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Murray Family Lineage
Zebra
June 2000
On Sale: June 1, 2000
Featuring: Cormac Armstrong; Elspeth Murray
352 pages
ISBN: 0821766147
EAN: 9780821766149
Kindle: B00CA6YWD8
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Excerpt of Highland Vow by Hannah Howell

Scotland 1446

"Pintle head!"

"Dog droppings!"

Cormac Armstrong almost laughed as the angry childish voices halted his slow, resigned descent into unconsciousness. It seemed a cruel jest of fate that he would slowly bleed his young life away to the sharp sounds of bairns taunting each other. The sound filled him with an overwhelming melancholy. It stirred memories of all the times he had quarreled with his brothers, painfully bringing him to the realization that he would never see them again.

"Ye are ugly!"

"Oh, aye? Hah! Weel, I say that ye are ugly, too, and stupid!"

The sound of a small fist hitting a small body was swiftly followed by the raucous sound of children fighting. More young voices cut through the chill, damp morning air as the other children cheered on their selected champions. It sounded as if there was a veritable horde of children on the other side of the thicket he hid behind. Cormac prayed that they would stay where they were, that none of them would cross to his side of the thicket and innocently become involved in his desperate troubles. A heartbeat later, he cursed, for he realized his prayers were to go unanswered.

Huge brilliant green eyes and a mass of thick raven curls were the first thing he saw and a thin, small girl wriggled through the thicket and knelt at his side. She was an enchanting child and Cormac desperately wished she would go away, far away. He did not think his enemies were still following his trail, but he could be wrong, and this fey child would be brutally pushed aside by them, perhaps even killed or injured.

"Go, lassie," he ordered, his voice little more than a hoarse, trembling whisper. "Take all your wee companions and flee this place. Quickly."

"Ye are bleeding," she said after looking him over.

His eyes widened slightly as she began to smooth her tiny, soft hand over his forehead. Her voice was surprisingly deep for such a wee lass, almost sultry. More voice than girl, he mused.

"Aye," he agreed, "and I will soon be dead, which isnae a sight for those bonny, big eyes."

"Nay, ye willnae die. My mither can heal most any hurt, ye ken. I am Elspeth Murray."

"And I am Cormac Armstrong." He was startled when he found the strength to shake the tiny hand she thrust at him. "Ye must nay tell your mother about me."

"Ye need my mither to make ye stop bleeding."

"Lass, I am bleeding because someone is trying verra hard to kill me."

"Why?"

"They say I am a murderer."

"Are ye?"

"Nay."

"Then my mither can help ye."

Cormac desperately wanted to allow the child to fetch her mother to heal his wounds. He did not want to die. He certainly did not want to die for a crime he had not committed, at least not before he could clear that black stain from his name. It was all so unfair, he thought, then grimaced. He realized that he sounded very much like a child himself.

"Ah, poor laddie," she murmured. "Ye are in pain. Ye need quiet. I will tell the bairns to hush." Before he could protest, she rose and walked back to the edge of the thicket, thrusting herself partway through. "Ye can all just shut your wee mouths," Elspeth yelled in an astoundingly loud, commanding voice. "There is a poor mon bleeding o'er here and he needs some peace. Payton, take your wee thin legs and run. Find Donald or my fither. Get someone, for this laddie sore needs help."

The only thing Cormac could think of to say when she returned to his side was, "I am nay a laddie. I am a mon, a hunted mon." He softly cursed as he watched other children begin to wriggle their way through the thicket.

"How old are ye?" Elspeth asked as she began to smooth her small hand over his forehead again.

"Seventeen." Cormac wondered how such a tiny hand could be so soothing.

"I am nine today. Tis why so many Murrays are gathered together. And, ye are a lad. My fither says anyone beneath one and twenty years is a lad or a lass and some are ne'er any more, e'en if they grow as old and bit as he has. Tis what he told my cousin Cordell when he turned sixteen and was boasting of what a fine, grand stallion of a mon he was."

"Aye," agreed an amber-eyed child who was even smaller than Elspeth, as she sat down next to him. "Uncle Balfour says a lad needs to gain his spurs, get himself a wife and bairns, and bring honor to both duties ere he can prance about and declare himself a mon. Why is he bleeding, Elspeth?"

"Because he has a few muckle great holes in him, Avery." Elspeth briefly grinned when the other children giggled.

"I can see that. How did he get hurt?"

"Someone is trying to make him pay for a murder he didnae commit."

"Lass," Cormac glanced around at what was an astonishing array of eleven beautiful children then fixed his gaze upon Elspeth, "I said I was innocent, but ye cannae be sure I was telling ye the truth."

"Aye, ye are," Elspeth said firmly.

"No one can lie to Elspeth," said a tall, slender boy crouched to the left of him.

"I am Ewan, her brother, and 'tis a most troublesome thing, I can tell ye."

Cormac almost smiled, but then fixed a stern gaze on the lad who looked to be a little older than Elspeth. "Then she will also ken that I speak the truth when I tell her I am naught but trouble, deadly trouble, and that she should just leave me to my fate. Ye should all hie away home ere the danger sniffing at my heels reaches your gates."

The boy opened his mouth to speak then rapidly closed it. Cormac followed his wide gaze to his sister and his own eyes widened slightly. She was sitting very straight, her beautiful eyes fixed unwaveringly upon her hapless brother. There was a very stern, very adult look upon her small face. Cormac could easily sympathize with the boy's reluctance to argue with that look. "Ewan, why dinnae ye and the other laddies see if ye can find something to make a litter," Elspeth said. "Oh, and ere ye skip off to do as ye are told, ye can give me that wineskin ye took from Donald."

Excerpt from Highland Vow by Hannah Howell
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