Sighs of the Highland Wind by Olivia Kerr EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Olivia Kerr
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- Genre: Historical Romance
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Maxwell Forbes’s feet were burning. He could barely put one foot
in front of the other because his boots were so worn that they
constantly chafed his feet, aggravating even further the blisters
that he had acquired during his long weeks of traveling. He had walked
from his home in the estate of Kirklieth all the way to Edinburgh and back
again, and although he had no idea of how far he had traveled, he guessed it
must be in the hundreds of miles.
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Hundreds of miles. It was an immense distance. He knew, however, that he
could run a thousand—a million—miles, and it would still not be far
enough to put sufficient distance between him and his so-called crime. The
more he thought about that word, the angrier he became because he had
done nothing wrong, and yet he was a fugitive. He knew for certain that if
he was caught, he might well be hanged or sentenced to transportation and
hard labor for the rest of his life—if he survived.
The night before, he had been obliged to sleep in the hollow of an oak tree
with an empty stomach and nothing but his cloak to keep him warm. Now,
however, he had decided that he had endured enough of life on the road and
was making his way home. He was unsure of the reception he would
receive, but he had to try to at least make his peace with his family and
Lachlan McDonald’s. He could not go on this way forever.
It had been a year since he and his best friend had had their fateful and fatal
argument, and during that time he had been wandering, begging for food,
and eating scraps left in middens. Occasionally he had been able to find a
bit of laboring work, but the pay had barely been enough to keep his
stomach full, and now it was empty again.
As he trudged along the muddy path, he took out the few coins he had left
in his pocket, hoping that he had enough left for a pint of ale. He counted
out his money, tallying it up to five pence. It would be enough for a pint of
ale and perhaps a meal, but he would have nothing left to tide him over for
the next few days until he found his way home.
Maybe I can live off nuts and berries for a few days, he thought.
He dismissed the notion at once. He was a big man and needed a lot more
than a few pieces of fruit and chestnuts to sustain him. If he was very lucky,
he could catch a few fish, but such a meager diet could hardly keep him
going all the way to Kirklieth.
He sighed irritably, but as the village of Invercree came into sight, a little
hope began to wake in his heart. Perhaps he would be able to buy or borrow
a pair of shoes, but he had big feet, and likely anyone he could beg or
borrow from had much smaller ones.
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