Seventeen
Lochmara felt different when Raleigh got back. It wasn’t as if he hadn’t been to the estate since he’d moved in at Ardinmuir. He’d been by to check on things, meeting with a handful of tenants, spending some time with Mabel and Titania, and checking in with Charlotte. But by and large, he’d let Malcolm continue to handle everything so he could focus on the family in the wake of Angus’s heart attack.
Family. He’d come to count all the MacKeans as his over the past couple of months, finding a closeness with them that could only be wrought by surviving extreme circumstances together. But was it all a lie? Was he alone in everything he felt?
Knowing Charlotte was liable to still be up and not wanting to face her yet, Raleigh parked out by the barn and wandered inside. The horses w
