Page 104 of The Defiant Curse

“What?” he asked.

Michael had bad news for his husband.

“You don’t want to tangle with her in a fight. She’s vicious and learned how to fight from the Marines. She’s got some Archangel and MRR in her. Don’t worry about her in a fight. Scotland doesn’t have a lot of guns. Anyone who comes at her with the intent to brawl, isn’t safe. She’s fine.”

He blinked.

“Uh, okay.”

If his husband said so. Hopefully, though, they didn’t have to witness that.

For now, Michael needed more information, so he focused on Elizabeth.

“Continue.”

She did.

“So, I went downstairs, and Ceit was there. She wanted to talk. She was talking in Gaelic, but it sounded, more like slang in Scottish. I could understand her though, so we talked.”

Neither man spoke.

Why?

The ghosts here had made Gabby sleepwalk, and almost to her death. So, that was the same old fear, now unlocked again.

“When I came down, I thought someone opened the door, and I went outside. It was pitch black, so I’m likely the one who set the alarm off.”

Well, yeah, they knew because there were cameras. Graham had checked them when they bunked down in her room, after they tucked her back into bed.

They watched the whole thing, and it was freaky.

“Ceit and I talked about her heart. She wanted me to find her icy heart and told me not to trust the words. I don’t know what that means.”

Both men were confused.

“Maybe it’s nothing,” Graham stated. “Maybe it’s more. I don’t like it,” he admitted.

That was when Elizabeth could see the look pass between them.

“What aren’t you telling me?” she asked.

Michael shared.

“The castle has been dead silent for a month. You came here, and you look like her. Then, the water bubbled,

and the painting fell, and now you’re sleepwalking as you have conversations with her. I’ve known you seven years, Elizabeth, and you’ve never sleepwalked before.”

She was aware.

“I don’t know if I should be wary or maybe I was just tired,” she admitted. “I’d gone without a good rest for almost a week. Catnaps only work for so long.”

He shut that down.

Oh, Michael always sided with the most logical, or safest side when it came to shit like this.

“I’d be wary. Because we just walked with you while you were dreaming, but we couldn’t hear her. The castle was quiet. You were the one who was haunted this time.”

And that freaked her out.