Epilogue

“Where are ye?” Aiden called from below.

“I’m up here in the second bedroom,” Scarlet replied and listened to the heavy footfalls of her husband as he rushed up the steps in their cabin on Loch Tay.

“What are ye doing in…?” His words stopped as he stood in the doorway of the small room down the hall from their bedchamber. “In here?” he finished as he stared at the wall where Scarlet had been laboring all day, while he worked with Grey at the castle on the cradle for Evelyn’s baby, due in a few weeks.

“I think it is time to start fixing up this room,” she said, stepping off the stool. She backed up to look at her mosaic. “I used some of the leftover pieces from Finlarig, and Rebecca gave me some of your mother’s plates that you broke after she—”

“Is that…?” he asked, cutting her off.

She smiled broadly. “Two roses,” she said, pointing. “One red. One blue.”

“With a third…wee rose under them,” he said slowly, and she heard him step up behind her. “A purple rose—a mix of the two?”

“Why, yes,” she said and looked up into his question-filled eyes. She tilted her head. “Perhaps you should ask Grey to help you to build a baby’s cradle.”

“You are with child?” he asked, his words breathless.

She nodded, a smile forming so broad that she felt tears squeeze from her eyes. “Due around Christmastime,” she said. “Or Hogma—”

Scarlet half squealed, half gasped as Aiden caught her up to him, spinning her around as she laughed. He set her gently on the floor and cupped her cheeks, pressing a kiss to her lips. Scarlet’s heart soared, her happiness mixed with Aiden’s, so high that she felt like she could float.

“She will be lovely like her mother,” he said, pulling her into his chest.

“Or he will be brawny and clever like his father,” she said.

“Could be, but I have a feeling it’s a wee lass,” Aiden said, running a broad hand softly along her slightly rounded abdomen. He kissed her forehead, staring down into her eyes. “A beautiful lass, strong and clever. The perfect Highland Rose.”

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When Queen Catherine sends a letter to Finlarig Castle, requesting a Highland Rose to help King Charles, which student is brave, lethal, and talented enough to journey to London to save a king? Find out the answer in The Wicked Viscount, book #3 of The Campbells series!

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