He only hoped he was there to see it go down. She could run fast, so he was pretty sure Callen and Chris were so dead. They might be haunting the new mansion they’d bought her in Damascus.
“Oh, the men are dead.”
Michael snorted.
There was nothing better than seeing Elizabeth all stirred up, and ready to bust chops over something like this—and she would.
“Good play,” Gabby admitted. “I’m dying to read that book,” she admitted.
Ian scooched closer, getting out of Gryphen’s lap to sit next to Gabby.
“My man just left me for a woman,” he joked. “I never saw that coming.”
Ian was amused.
“She’s got the goods,” he said. “Find your man a journal in a haunted castle, and maybe he’ll stay in your lap, Lord Gryphen.”
That made Graham laugh, and only he understood the reference to that.
Well, maybe him and Gryphen—since he’d seen some shit when they were there.
“My lips are sealed,” Graham said, when Gryphen was giving him the hairy eyeball.
Instead of saying more, they got down to work.
Opening the book, Gabby went to the first page. She saw the date, and did the math.
“Oh, no,” she said.
That had everyone’s attention.
“What?” Graham asked.
“This is Duncan’s journal. It’s dated after they get back, and some time has passed. It’s right after Ciarán is killed in hisplace. It’s also in Scottish. I can’t read much of it other than his name and the year.
As soon as the‘killed’part, the air in the room got heavy.
In fact, it got so heavy that a sadness rolled over them, and there was no doubt that it was because Duncan was there.
Watching.
Waiting.
Suffering.
And Michael understood that pain. He felt like that for the longest time when he lost Graham.
It was still freaking him out that his life and the dead men’s lives were running parallel. He’d put his body over Graham to save him, and Ciarán had done the same to Duncan.
He’d lost his love and was forced to wander the rest of his life until they were united.
Both he and Graham had been soldiers.
He didn’t understand why they connected, but he could feel that they did.
“I can read it for you,” Graham offered. “Since Finn is still on his call.”
Gabby handed him the book, and he got ready to help translate the book.
