“That’s so nice.” How humiliating. The whole town probably knew that I couldn’t even make a midnight trip out to see a stranger without getting lost. “How did you explain my visit to Alister?”
“I didna tell them that ye were seeing Alister,” Brodie growled. “Luckily, the witch knows how to keep a secret. He told them that he saw ye out chasing a puppy, and when the mist thickened, he feared that ye were lost.”
“Chasing a puppy? I sound like Pollyanna,” I moaned.
“A friend of yers?”
Unable to help myself, I chuckled. “Alister says that I shouldn’t be running away from my true love. That I’m supposed to be here.”
“If ye were supposed to be here, then ye would have been born here, aye?”
For some reason, his answer disappointed me. Wrapping my arms around myself, I disengaged myself from
