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“Americans.”
“Oh,” Brigid exclaimed with delight. “Is that your homeland? America?”
“Yes, but not just the place. I’m from a time several hundred years into the future.”
“Fascinating,” Brigid breathed, pushing her glasses up the bridge of her nose to get a better look at the young woman sitting across from her.
Thanks to Annie’s scintillating company, she’d forgotten entirely about untoward imaginings from the night before.
Well, almost.
She crossed her legs and squeezed her core muscles when her clitoris throbbed in memory.
“So, tell me, Brigid,” Annie said. “Why are we headed to Scotland?”
Brigid took a deep breath and settled herself more comfortably into the cushions of her seat.
Lord Rathbourne had outdone himself with the thick tufted seats made of the softest leather. For all their lack of cutting-edge fashion, the Rathbournes made up for it in always acquiring the finest things money could buy. The newly-sprung carriage was a dream to ride in, especially when there was just the two of them commandeering the spacious and luxurious interior all to themselves.
“We are headed there because I do not want to bring danger into the Rathbourne household with my relatives in residence,” Brigid said.
“Those demons clearly had me as their target. I could see it in their beady black eyes. Where I go, trouble may follow. I do not believe the attack was an anomaly.”
“I’d say that’s a safe assumption,” Annie agreed gravely.
“You seem to be taking all of this in stride.”
Brigid shrugged.
“I have always known there are monsters in the darkness,” she revealed.
“I heard them howl and screech in the forests behind Castle Mar ever since I was a child. But they never truly frightened me. I would take my oil lamp and sneak out of my rooms, go down the servants’ stairs and through the back door that led into the woods.”
“This is where the girl always gets attacked and killed in horror movies, you know,” Annie interjected.
But Brigid went on.
“I could sense sometimes that there were things that wanted to hurt me. They were hungry for my flesh and blood.”
“Umm…” Annie mused. “And you went out there on purpose?”
“But when I cast my light upon the shadows, the darkness receded. And a world of beauty and light revealed itself to me. Such as you would never imagine could exist. With magical beings that are gentle, kind, and full of joy.”
“Like the unicorns that are supposedly pulling our carriage right now?” Annie asked.
“You don’t believe it?”
“Well, I can only see a pair of handsome white horses,” Annie declared. “I have to take Ben’s word for it.”
“I cannot see their true form either,” Brigid said. “But, like you, I choose to believe our men.”
“Our men, eh?” Annie picked up on Brigid’s slip of the tongue immediately, waggling her brows.
“Well, Lord Larkin is your cousin, after all,” Brigid pointed out.
“Not really,” Annie said. “More like a brother of the heart. So, I suppose it’s true that I can claim him in that way. What about you? What claim do you have on Prince Saiyan?”
She slanted Brigid a sly look.
