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bastard.”
    When Lachlan found the murderer Brian Duncan’s corpse, he started to haul it off into the woods, sure he could meet up with his men and tell a story of how he was able to escape.
    “The tower was ablaze, and everyone from the castle was scurrying about trying to put out the fire,” he said.
    Piper shuddered, trying not to think about Sam and Evie having been in that very tower fire. If she had waited even a moment longer to do the spell to return Lachlan to his own time, they might have died in the eighteenth century. Lachlan took her hand and she smiled gratefully up at him, nodding for him to continue.
    With everyone preoccupied with trying to save the tower, Lachlan was able to get deep into the woods, where he stowed Brian’s corpse behind a fallen tree. He went to the edge of the Glen land and soon met up with his men, who had been patrolling each night in hopes that he would show up.
    “My men thought I had escaped on my own without their help, y’see?” Lachlan said. “They didna know I was catapulted to the future, and were beginning to wonder why I had no’ shown up yet. They were no’ happy that it took so long for me to get back, but when I told them I’d captured the blackguard Brian Duncan, they were pleased enough with me.”
    The next day, Lachlan and his men retrieved the corpse and returned with it to Castle Glen. Everyone for miles around had been on high alert for the evil mass murderer and even though Lachlan himself had very recently been held prisoner by the Glens for cattle rustling, he was now hailed as a hero.
    Known all over the Highlands for their hospitality and rich feasts, the Glens ordered a celebration in Lachlan’s honor, and clans from all around were sent invitations to the estate.
    “That was all well and good, but it meant I couldna leave for home, and risk insulting them, and no offense my love, but yer people are quite easily insulted. And they were still no’ past their anger over my cousin breaking some daft betrothal, where the girl had mostly dreamed it all up in her head to begin with.”
    Piper coughed loudly to hide her laughter. “So that’s what happened! I thought my side were the oath breakers. Are you sure your cousin didn’t toy with my poor ancestor’s affections and then weasel out of his responsibility?” She instantly regretted her joke when his eyes flared with indignation. “I’m teasing, Lachlan,” she said in a hurry, stroking his arm. She almost said it was so long ago it hardly mattered, but realized with a jolt that to him it was very recent and real. “I’m sorry, “ she said more sincerely.
    “No matter,” Lachlan said with a rueful smile. “Since I was beholden to stay there until the feast could take place, I had plenty of time on my hands.”
    “Wait,” Mellie interrupted, scooting forward in her chair. “What happened to the witch?”
    She clutched her crucifix and cut a glance at Piper. No one said Daria Glen’s name.
    Lachlan cracked his neck and looked at them both long and hard.
    “She was never found, no’ for certain.” They both gasped and he rushed to continue. “But the fire raged out of control, the destruction was severe. There wasna much left to even distinguish the guards from one another. She had to have been consumed. It is what I believe.”
    He said this last with so much force, Piper almost thought he was overcompensating, but from what Evie had told her about her insane ancestor, she fervently hoped that it was true.
    Lachlan was given a room in the castle, and he sent his men home with instructions until he could leave the Glens without causing any clan strife. At first he helped with repairs to the tower, but after two weeks, that was done. When he couldn’t throw himself completely into hard, mindless labor, he was consumed with thoughts of Piper. He had never been so completely enchanted by any lass, and knowing he would never see her again, or even know that she had a good life, was