Just Wait For Me (Highland Gardens Book 3) (21 page)
Read Just Wait For Me (Highland Gardens Book 3) Online
Authors: Dawn Marie Hamilton
Five years later
Whispering Pines Inn, Anderson Creek, North Carolina
Jillian swayed with the music as Keita swirled past, dancing
with Duff. Stephen came up from behind and wrapped strong arms around her
waist.
“Let us slip away.” His breath teased the fine hairs at the
back of her neck.
“We can’t leave our daughter’s birthday
ceilidh
.
She’ll only be eleven once.”
“She will understand.”
“No she won’t. She’s too young.”
“Thank the good Lord. I dinnae ken what I will do when she
starts dating. I shudder at the thought. She is too comely by far, and I have
seen what the other fathers in the reenactment group go through with their
teenage
daughters.”
“Promise you won’t challenge the fellow Keita selects to a
sword fight.”
“Pfff! ’Tis a thought, but I would most likely first need to
teach the lad which end of the blade is pointed and sharp.”
Jillian turned within his arms and planted a sweet kiss on
his lips. He took it deeper.
“Ahem.” Patrick interrupted.
Laurie joined them. “’Tis time to cut the cake.”
As they approached the table, five-year old Malcolm burst
into the room, circled the dessert table, and skidded to a stop at a stern look
from Stephen. Four-year-old Tevin followed in hot pursuit, tripped over
Malcolm’s outstretched leg, and banged into the table. A pedestal plate of
cookies fell over, some of the cookies landing on the cake. Malcolm smirked and
Tevin looked mortified.
Oh dear. A grim frown curved the lips Jillian had just been
kissing. Stephen would scold the boys. There would be feigned tears on
Malcolm’s part. Real tears from Tevin.
“Sorry, Da,” Malcolm said in a rush.
Keita hurried over and squatted in front of Tevin, offering
sisterly
love
as she often did when Malcolm got the better of his younger brother.
She grasped Tevin’s rounded shoulders. “It’s okay. You didn’t do anything
wrong.” She reached up to the table, grabbed a cookie, swiped it through the
cake icing, and took a bite. “See, Tev. Tastes great.”
Malcolm followed her example and popped an iced-cookie in
his mouth. “Yummy.”
Tevin’s eyes widened, and Keita handed him a coated cookie.
He shyly accepted her offering and bit into the sugary treat. He smiled
adoringly at his big sister.
Jillian bit back a chuckle, and waved her hands at the boys.
“Off with the two of you, but stay close.”
“Let’s play warrior and slay dragons in the garden,” Malcolm
suggested.
Tevin nodded and the boys trotted out of the room. All
previous offences forgotten.
Laurie burst out laughing. “You have your hands full,
Jillian.”
Duff sailed past with three wooden swords tucked under an
arm. “I’ll watch after them.”
“Keep them away from the garden gate and faerie mound,”
Stephen warned, as if Duff wasn’t aware of the dangers.
Jillian glanced at Stephen and they shared a loving smile.
They adored their four children.
* * *
On the morning after the party, at home, Jillian woke
half-sprawled across Stephen’s chest, a hard-on poking her hip. She shifted her
weight, and received a deep-throated growl in return.
She laughed and extended a leg over his waist, rising up, making
ready to ride him. “I think you like it.”
“Oh, Aye. Good morrow to you, lass.” His blue gaze burned
before he captured her lips, tongue delving deep for a tantalizing kiss.
“Mmm. I love waking like this every morning. Have you been
awake long?”
“Long enough to be mesmerized by your beauty.”
Perhaps they would conceive another child. They had room in
their hearts for more than four. She wrapped a hand around his cock and guided
him to the entrance of her womb. With a soft chuckle, she slid over his flesh,
and together they soared around the universe.
As they always would.
The Caves of the Gray Women are fictional. Smoo Cave in
Durness, Scotland provided partial inspiration. Geothermal hot springs exist in
England and Wales, but not in Scotland to my knowledge. If you know of hot
springs located in Scotland, I’d love to hear about them.
~Dawn Marie
Just Beyond the Garden Gate
Book One, Highland Gardens Series
by Dawn Marie Hamilton
Time Travel Fantasy Romance
Determined to regain her royal status, a banished faerie
princess accepts a challenge from the High-Queen of the Fae to unite an
unlikely couple while the clan brownie attempts to thwart her.
Passion ignites when a faerie-shove propels burned-out
business consultant Laurie Bernard through the garden gate, back through time,
and into the embrace of Patrick MacLachlan. The arrogant clan chief doesn’t
know what to make of the lass in his arms, especially when he recognizes the
brooch she wears as the one his stepmother wore when she and his father
disappeared.
With the fae interfering at every opportunity, the couple
must learn to trust one another while they battle an enemy clan, expose a
traitor within their midst and discover the true fate of the missing parents.
Can they learn the most important truth—love transcends time?
Journey from the lush gardens of the Blue Ridge Mountains of
North Carolina to the Scottish Highlands of 1509 with
Just Beyond the Garden
Gate
.
Just Once in a Verra Blue Moon
Book Two, Highland Gardens Series
by Dawn Marie Hamilton
Time Travel Fantasy Romance
What happens when a twenty-first century business executive
is expected to fulfill a prophecy given at the birth of a sixteenth-century
seer? Of course, he must raise his sword in her defense.
Believing women only want him for his wealth, Finn MacIntyre
doesn't trust any woman to love him. When, during Scottish Highland games,
faerie magic sends him back in time to avenge the brutal abduction of his
time-traveling cousin, he learns he's the subject of a fae prophecy.
Elspeth MacLachlan, the beloved clan seer, is betrothed to a
man she dislikes and dreams of the man prophesized at her birth, only to find
him in the most unexpected place—facedown in the mud.
With the help of fae allies, they must overcome the treachery
set to destroy them to claim a love that transcends time.
Journey from the lush gardens of the Blue Ridge Mountains of
North Carolina to the Scottish Highlands of 1509 with
Just Once in a Verra
Blue Moon
.
Just in Time for a
Highland Christmas
Book 2.5, Highland Gardens Series
by Dawn Marie Hamilton
Time Travel Fantasy Romance Novella
Can a determined brownie craft a perfect match?
When the Chief of Clan MacLachlan travels to the stronghold
of his feuding neighbors to fetch his betrothed, she is gone. A year later, she
is still missing. Making life more vexing, a band of reivers are stealing clan
cattle, leaving behind destruction. Archibald MacLachlan determines to capture
them and administer harsh punishment.
Though once in love with the man, Isobell Lamont refuses to
wed her clan’s enemy. After running away she joins the band of reivers set on
revenge.
Can Archibald forgive the raven-haired beauty? Will a journey
through time bring them together for a Highland Christmas?
Journey from the Scottish Highlands of 1511 to the Blue Ridge
Mountains of North Carolina with
Just in Time for a Highland Christmas
.
Twelvetide
Twelve Nights of Highland Magic
An Enchanted Highlands Novella
by Dawn Marie Hamilton
Time Travel Fantasy Romance
He has twelve nights to gain her love. She has twelve
nights to save his soul.
Fulfilling a childhood promise, Ashley Dumont returns to an
ancient Druid garden in the Black Hills of Scotland on the eve of the winter
solstice—a time when magic hums and the veil between realms thins and tears,
allowing all manner of supernatural creatures through. Will the ghost who
claimed to be her destiny still be there?
Caelan Innes awaits her arrival. Unjustly murdered in the
sixteenth century, a second chance at life depends on this woman. The Druids
grant them the twelve nights of Yule to find love and save Cael’s soul. Will a
trip through time and the treachery of enemies make the sacrifice too dear?
Sea Panther
Book One, Crimson Storm Series
by Dawn Marie Hamilton
Paranormal Romance
2013 Golden Heart® finalist for Best Paranormal Romance
Can love mend a fractured soul?
After evading arrest for Jacobite activities, Scottish
nobleman Robert MacLachlan turns privateer. A Caribbean Voodoo priestess curses
him to an eternal existence as a vampire shifter torn between the dual natures
of a Florida panther and an immortal blood-thirsting man. For centuries, he seeks
to reverse the black magic whilst maintaining his honor. Cruising the
twenty-first century Atlantic, he becomes shorthanded to sail his 90-foot
yacht,
Sea Panther
. The last thing he wants is a female crewmember and
the call of her blood.
Although she swore never to sail again after her father died
in a sailing accident, Kimberly Scot answers the captain's crew wanted ad to
escape a hit man. She's lost everything, her fiancé, her job, and most of her
money, along with money belonging to her ex-clients. A taste of Kimberly's
blood convinces Robert she is the one woman who can claim the panther's heart.
To break the curse, they travel back in time to where it all began—Jamaica
1715.
Time Travel Fantasy Romance
Just His Fae Kiss
Book Four, Highland Gardens Series
Paranormal Romance
Raven’s Revenge
Book Two, Crimson Storm Series
Dawn Marie Hamilton dares you to dream. She is a 2013 RWA®
Golden Heart® Finalist who pens Scottish-inspired fantasy and paranormal
romance. Some of her tales are rife with mischief-making faeries, brownies, and
other fae creatures. More tormented souls—shape shifters, vampires, and maybe a
zombie or two—stalk across the pages of other stories. When not writing, she’s
cooking, gardening, or paddling the local creeks with her husband.
Email:
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/authorDawnMarieHamilton
Blog:
http://dawnmariehamilton.blogspot.com
Twitter:
http://www.twitter.com/dawnm_hamilton
Google+:
http://bit.ly/Gplus-DawnMarieHamilton
Pinterest:
