The whole time, both Gabby and Ian were mesmerized. It read differently when you had a Scottish accent.
All around them, the room stayed chilly, and there was no doubt they weren’t alone.
Hopefully, this didn’t stir up the dead here.
Graham turned the page to the first entry.
“It begins with,‘The day my life ended, and I was forced to walk this earth alone’,” he said.
Oh, that was definitely going to set the mood.
‘Today was the day I lost myself, and I don’t know how to breathe. For last night, when we slept, I was betrayed by someone I trusted in my employment. In the middle of the night, the enemy was let in, and Ciarán was lost to me.
I don’t know how to function now.
He placed his body over mine and was hurt trying to save me. I wish he did not. I wish he let me perish instead. I can hear his screams as the blade entered his body repeatedly, as he was brutally murdered in cold blood.
As he lay above me, his precious blood ran onto me in rivulets. He used his body to shield me in his final act of love and devotion.
His dying words to me were of his fidelity and love. He promised to wait for me until I, too, passed. When I was free of his body, I killed everyone who tried to harm me, and succeeded in destroying the love of my life. I decimated them, in cold blood, not even knowing what I did. It was automatic to avenge the only person I’ve ever loved, and to get my retribution. It was an eye for an eye, and I have no regrets.
This was my fear.
When Catherine left, I knew there would be questions as to why I wouldn’t take a third wife, but now, I’m stuck wondering who betrayed me? Who sent the church to end my life all because I prefer to lie with men than women?
My secret is out, and I will not rest until the person who allowed the crusaders in to end me is handled. I will walk these halls until I find the answers.
That is my final act upon this earth, and I cannot wait until I can be with him again. Already, I’m cold and feel empty.
Love has left me.
Ciarán died for me, and now, I’m forced to walk alone. They forced me from the light into the darkness, and I will make sure whoever has done this will pay for their crimes.
They took my heart, and now, I will take their lives. I vow to find who was behind this and set my love free from his spirit wandering this castle.
He haunts me.
All of this haunts me.
I am definitely cursed, and until it can be broken, and the truth comes out, I shall not have a moment’s peace.
For they came for my heart, and slayed it.
And it is dead.
Lord Duncan Granndach.’
Graham stopped reading, and he had tears in his eyes. There was no doubt why.
Michael just held him.
“That was heavy,” Gryphen admitted. “You can feel his pain.”
That they could.
Ian agreed wholeheartedly.
“I feel bad for them. All they wanted to do was have their life in the castle. They weren’t bothering anyone, and he was forced to watch his lover die. That’s shitty. I’d haunt a place too.When Gryphen was in his coma, I wanted to die with him, and I was willing to.”
