The Veiled Lass

Chapter Forty-One

"He is here barely an hour and he just whisks her away! She hadn't even agreed to their betrothal. Is it not improper for him to take her into a private room?" Breac growled low under his breath as he paced back and forth in his brother chambre.

Braigh chuckled at his brother. "Ye are implying how improper it is for her future husband to tend to her in private? Breac ye have fucked her in private."

Breac stopped abruptly."How do ye know of that?"

"Ye forget that Hamish is your chambre boy and has to change your filthy sheets..So imagine his surprise when he finds sheets smelling of sex, Ye forget that when one is missing a sense the others are stronger. He brought the sheet to me to examine. At first I thought maybe you finally caved and fucked a whore but then I realized there was virgin blood on those sheets and also the thick hair of a certain dark haired lass."

Breac sighed roughly.

"He mustn't find out she is no longer innocent. Laird Alpine may not do anything but he could refuse the marriage and Laird Douglas's wrath would rain upon her in ways she has never known. Breac he is a cruel man. He is the one that caused Hamish's blindness. Flogging scars plague all of his subjects, Hell I see bruises upon his daughter and his son has been missing since the encounter in the hall." Braigh rose from his seat on the bed and approached his brother as he spoke.

"I love her Braigh! She is my sun and my stars but the clan is my moon.. and to have one is to risk the other."

"Uncle Lachlan will be here in a few days, He is the king's hand and only he has the ability to take Elspet in his ward. Hopefully ye can beg for that but if he does so it will not be so that she may marry you. She is a bonny lass and Lachlan would take her back to court and she would be quite the talk. She would have the chance to fall in love and be happy and you would know she is safe"

Breac looked at his brother in desperation. "There is no scenario where she stays here, with me. No chance for me to have the honor to make her Lady Macdonnell."

Braigh gripped his brothers shoulder sympathetically. 

"No one feels your pain more than I Breac. My love it's self is a sin. If I were to ever travel out of these walls I would be killed. My love is owned by another..if Laird Douglas was to leave so would my Hamish.."

"Ye both are masochists"

The two two highlanders gaze snapped to their younger brother as he munched on a red apple happily after he had spoken.

Hamish chuckled from his place beside the youngest Macdonnell 

"I assure you little highlander your brother is no masochist. Sadist is much more suited to him"

Balfour began to profusely make gagging noises around his apple.

"Hamish darling you shouldn't torture my brothers.. they are quite the prudes."

"I am not a prude!"Balfour admonished 

Braigh snickered "Aye, your right a prude wouldn't peak into the villages brothel"

With that the young warrior's face turned as red as his apple.

Braigh smiled at his brothers expense once more before turning to his future Laird.

"Brother before you ask Uncle to take her as ward you must first be sure that she does not want to be with Alpine. He is rich and powerful and handsome. He can make her Lady Alpine. An honor she could not receive in court. The only next highest thing from Lady Alpine is.."

Breac finished his sentence as he looked into the fire.

"A princess"