The laughing voice— familiar even all these years gone past—came out of the darkness like a ghost, haunting her with cruel memories.
What made her think of him now ? she wondered the father—the natural father—who'd soothe her nightmares when she was a child but who'd left her and never looked back when she was just five?. He certainly wouldn't come for her .
A tear slipped from the corner of her eye 👁 and she angrily brushed it away . He didn't deserve her tears 😭.
Her eyes burned fiercely. For a while her anger kept her fear at bay. But by the next night it had returned. By the following it had turned to panic. By the next it had turned desperation. And by the fifth it had turned to the most horrible feeling of all: hopelessness.
Maxwell Mac Gregor gazed around the charred shell 🐚 of the village, a grim set to his celebrated features. The past year of war had shown him some of the very worst of mankind, but this...
Bile rose to the back of his throat .He had to fight to keep the contents of his stomach down. His companions— especially Steven macLean and Stewart Lamont who'd been here a month ago— seemed to be having the same struggle. When MacLean disappeared behind one of the burned - out buildings, Maxwell figured he'd lost the battle.
'It's true ,'' Lamont said. 'Bloody hell, its true. Who the hell could do something like this?'' The gruff tracker's eyes were stark with disbelief as they met his. 'All the women and children.'' His voice cut off and then dropped to a ragged whisper. 'They killed them all.''
Lamont turned away. He didn't seem to expect a response and Maxwell didn't have one to give him. What could he say? It was true . The blackened bodies they found at each holding left no doubt.
Rage replaced some of his horror.No more,he vowed Once Bruce was on the throne nothing like this would ever happen again
The importance of this mission to Bruce was evident by the man who spoke next Thor Chief Macson the leader of the Kings secret band of elite and soldiers of the king and also head of the inferno club known as the Highland Guard hadn't left the kings side for more than a few hours in recent weeks Personal bodyguard enforcer protector advisor Macson was everything for Robert the Bruce Yet the king had sent his most trusted man to check on the loyal village who had given a handful of his men shelter after the worst disaster of a short reign that had been filled with disasters.