The Accidental Highland Hero
“Thinking she had some word about the shipwrecked lass, he waited for his mother to speak. Her brown eyes sparkled, and her lips curved slightly upward, making him think his mother had good news. Yet her cheerfulness seemed subdued.
When she did not speak but wrung her hands, he frowned. Her actions were not what he wished to see. “She is a Dunbarton?” he fairly roared.
Several servants carrying fresh rushes into the hall stopped and watched him.
His mother shook her head. “She says nay. Her name is Eilis, which I believe.”
James thought about her name. Eilis. A good Irish name and since the MacNeill clan originally came from Niall of the Nine Hostages, High King of Ireland in 379, the name suited the lass.
“And the clan she hails from?”
“She remembers it not.”
James didn’t believe it for a minute. How could a woman know some things and not others? “And you believe her?”
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