going to do with Ally?” he asked, as something else occurred to him. “And where is James?”
“On his way back from the ranges,” she answered. “It would seem that he was lured out there in an attempt to get him away from Ally.”
“Was it Vincent that lured him out there?"
“I don’t know, James didn’t say. He just told me it was a trap and to get Ally to safety.” She sighed with a heavy heart.
They both looked at the girls, completely unaware of the danger that surrounded them.
“We are taking Ally to Scotland, tonight,” Adele said, with a hint of resignation.
“I don’t think you have any other choice.”
“No, we have been backed into a corner it would seem.” She sank down onto the lounge behind her. “What are your plans?”
“I plan on returning there myself, with Kathryn,” Chase said enthusiastically.
Adele looked at him startled. “Have you told her what you are yet? You can hardly take her to our homeland without telling her what she’s in for. Most importantly, you must be certain she’s the one, Chase.”
“Not yet. I plan on telling her when I take her home tonight. There’s no time to waste, my home is in Scotland, and her place is with me,” he stated with a touch of immortal arrogance.
Despite the situation, Adele began to laugh. “You’re as bad as James. You immortal males think your word goes, and that females will just do as you ask. That isn’t how it works anymore. Kathryn is human, remember.”
“I know that, Addie. I also know how deeply she cares for her friend. She’d do anything for her. Going to Scotland is what she’ll want to do, once she learns the truth,” he stated confidently.
“I can only hope for your sake that you’re right, Chase.”
“I won’t let any harm come to her,” he replied confidently.
“No you won’t or you will answer to me,” Adele said with a seriousness that took Chase by surprise. “She has been like a sister to Ally and a grandchild to me.”
“I will protect her with my life, Adele.”
“I know, but I fear it won’t be enough to keep her from harm.”
“I have plans to start the conversion on the flight over. She’ll be an immortal, by the time we reach Scotland,” Chase said.
“You can’t do that until you are certain! What if you change her, then realize she isn’t the one? What will happen to her after that?"
“I won’t change my mind. I have decided that she is the one!” He was unaccustomed to having his judgement questioned and was getting annoyed.
“Just make sure you know what you’re doing Chase.”
“I do,” he said with a touch of arrogance. It was going to be hard on Kathryn, but he felt he had no choice. Her life was at stake if he took her to Glencoe without changing her. She would need all the help she could get to stay safe.
Adele interrupted his thoughts. “I hear a car approaching, it must be James. Go and keep the girls busy, they can’t know he has returned.”
He stood with a nod, and sauntered back over to the girls to keep them busy while Adele spoke to James.
The girls watched Chase and Adele walk away. When they were far enough away so their conversation couldn’t be heard, Kat turned to her friend with a big grin. “Isn’t he wonderful,” she sighed.
“He sounds like your perfect man.” Ally smiled.
“Oh but he is, isn’t he?” Kathryn said wistfully.
Ally couldn’t help getting swept up in the excitement radiating out of Kat. Both James and Chase looked like they’d stepped out of a romance novel, with perfect chiselled looks, taut bodies, chivalrous to a fault and not to mention being Scottish.
“They’re almost too perfect,” Ally said warily, suddenly feeling like something was very wrong.
Her gaze swept over to where Chase and Adele had sat down. They appeared to be locked in an intense conversation. Judging by the amount of side looks, they both kept giving them, it involved Ally and Kat in some way.
Is Chase somehow involved in this? It wouldn’t surprise her. She was beginning to wonder how far spread this secret was. Adele definitely knew more than she was letting on, and she had never heard any mention of Chase until tonight. Ally didn’t know all her grandmother’s friends or acquaintances, but surely if Chase was so fabulous, Adele would have mentioned him before. So why hadn’t she? Ally found all of this to be extremely puzzling. She had the sneaking suspicion