Well the man laughed, "you'll have to wait for me to stick my spoon in the
wall before you can take Mac House from me.
A rare warmth rushed up Oliver's neck. "That's not what I meant, sir. I
Mac just laughed some more. "Do not fash yourself, Lord. I know
you did not mean that." Then his smile vanished as he resumed the seat
behind his desk. "Anyway, the property is Hazel's. It was her
mother's dowry, and someday it'll belong to your daughter.
"It's the ancestral seat of the seers, though only Hazel's line has survived the witch
hunts of the last few centuries, at least as far as we ken. Since ye
have a secret of your own, I do not think I have to tell you how imperative it is that
no one outside the family discover what she is."
Then why did it seem as if Alec already knew tha
