Highland Vengeance by Saydee Bennett

not rest until I have taken back what is mine. My
land has great wealth and natural resources and the MacKay clan
will ruin it before too long. I come to you to bring you a leader
and to have your help in defeating the MacKay clan. I have already
secured the Sutherland, Drummond and the Macleod clans to fight
with us. I will train you to fight as we do and together we shall
kill the bastards that killed my father in cold blood. I will rule
the Sinclairs and I will appoint Broderick Kincaid to rule this
clan. You will be the clan Kincaid. Who here is willing to accept
what I have said?” Camden said with authority.
    Broderick walked to stand next to his
laird. “I am Broderick Kincaid and my laird asked you a question.
Who here is willing to accept this plan?” Broderick
yelled.
    The crowd erupted in cheers and shouts
as they all became part of a united family. Seeing and knowing whom
this Broderick Kincaid was that Camden spoke of, was all this group
needed. The powerful looking man standing next to Laird Sinclair
would rule these men and this would be the Kincaid clan.
    Olivia watched as her husband gave an
elderly woman in the clan a plaid that was threaded in deep forest
green and had a thin red stripe running through it. She wondered
whose it was and why he was giving it to the woman. As the Sinclair
warriors began to organize the men into groups for training, Olivia
found her husband to ask him about the plaid.
    “ My laird, may I ask you a
question?” She said softly from behind him.
    Just hearing her feminine voice made
him smile. “You are quite the puzzle wife,” he said turning to face
her.
    “ What do you mean my
laird?”
    “ I know your fiery spirit
wife, for I have seen it many times yet now you come to me with the
temperament of a mouse to ask a question. Have you not realized
that I will always answer your questions and you do not have to be
timid around me?” He said.
    “ Aye, husband I know you
like it best when I am not timid for I found that out this
morning,” she smiled with her eyes lighting up.
    Camden laughed out loud at her comment
and he thought to himself how much he enjoyed being around her. A
few minutes ago, he was reliving a nightmare and now Olivia made
him alive with her beauty and wit.
    “ I know you will answer my
questions my laird, for you always have. And if you don’t answer
them, I know of a few ways to torture you until you do,” she
whispered as she moved closer to him.
    He laughed again and he suddenly wanted
to pull her into their cottage and claim her again as his
own.
    “ Now to my question, I saw
you hand a plaid to Agnes that didn’t look like ours. I was just
curious as to why.”
    “ It pleases me wife that you
have already gotten to know the names of these people. The women
have taken to you well,” he praised.
    “ You have taken to me well
too, my laird,” she smiled.
    My God, he thought, she has to stop
smiling and teasing this way. Camden could not seem to
concentrate.
    “ Yes, I certainly have. And
to answer your question, the plaid was the only one left in
Broderick’s family and it will now be replicated and made for all
in his new clan,” Camden answered.
    “ So this will be Broderick’s
clan soon?” She asked.
    “ Yes wife, as soon as we are
prepared to take over the Sinclair land, he will be laird here and
we will go home to my holding.”
    “ I have another question my
laird.”
    “ You will call me Camden
now,” he ordered.
    She quickly stiffened. “Then you will
call me Olivia.”
    “ What was your question?” He
smiled ignoring her demand.
    “ Why do you call me wife and
not Olivia?” She persisted.
    “ Is that the question you
were going to ask?”
    “ Just answer me damn it!”
She yelled.
    Camden enjoyed getting a small rise out
of Olivia. She was fun to tease with her quick temper. Lord, she
went from calm and cool to boiling hot in a heartbeat. Camden moved
to be extremely close to her, so close that the tips of her