Page 53 of Laird Of Her Heart

She glanced at Declan. “I’m worried.”

He nodded. He looked like hell. His handsome face was drawn and shadowed. His hair was a mess. “As am I.”

“He needs penicillin.”

“What is that?”

“It’s a common drug in my time.”

Declan froze. His face paled and his throat worked. “Your…what?”

Oh fuck. She hadn’t intended to say that. “I mean, in my country.”

“You said my time.”

She offered a toothy smile. “You misheard me.”

“I know what I heard.” His eyes went flinty. “Are you from some other realm? Some other time?”

She plucked at a hem. Shrugged. “Maybe?”

He crossed his arms and stared at her. He hummed with intensity. “Does Dominic know?”

“I…ah… Know what?”

“What you are? What you really are?”

“Yes.”

He stilled. “Does he…accept it?”

“I think he does.” She set her hand on Dominic’s. It was scorching. “We were just making peace over it when he was injured.”

“Where do you really come from Maggie from Seattle?” There was a thread of a sneer in his voice.

“Oh, I do come from Seattle. But Seattle about seven hundred years from now.”

His jaw dropped.

“Yeah. I was as surprised as you to find myself here.”

“How did you do this?”

She shrugged. “It wasn’t on purpose, I assure you. I simply stepped into a stone circle back home and landed in yours.”

“The stone circle. Is it some kind of magical place?” This he asked with the tone of a man who didn’t believe in magical places. Then again, neither had she. Until now.

“Probably more of a temporal displacement.”

His lashes flickered.

“Listen, Declan, if I can get back home, I can get the medicine Dominic needs. I can save his life.” Hope, excitement, rose in her breast. “Please Declan. Can you take me back there? Back to the circle?”

“Aye.” His eyes narrowed. “But what if you get home, and you decide you doona want to come back? Doona want to save him?”

Her heart clenched. “I will come back,” she rasped through a raw throat. “I have to save him. I can’t live without him. I…love him.”

For the first time, his harsh expression softened.