Conall: The 93rd Highlanders, Book Two (21 page)

Alec laughed and Brodie felt
his body shake as the laughter escaped him because he was pressed
against Brodie’s side with his arm around Brodie’s shoulders. It
made him suddenly aware of Alec’s weight against him, the heat of
his body under Brodie’s hand where it rested on his waist tucked
under Alec’s jacket. He felt a stirring inside, a warmth and
awareness that traveled straight to his dick with a shiver. He
liked the feeling. He’d chased skirts all over Scotland and beyond
because he liked the feeling. He knew it well. He just hadn’t
expected to feel it with Alec.

“
I’ve got to
go,” he said to Alec, reluctant to let him go. “I can’t leave
Hamish to Dougie.”

“
That’s true
enough,” Alec agreed. He started to pull his arm from around
Brodie, but just then another man called out his name, hurrying to
his side.

“
Lieutenant
Fletcher’s been shot,” he told Brodie without preamble. “Captain
Munro sent me for you.”

Brodie’s stomach dropped to his
knees and for a moment it was Alec holding him up.

“
How bad?”
Alec asked when Brodie had trouble speaking. Conall was his twin.
He’d never imagined something might happen to one of them here.
What a fool he’d been. What would he do without Connie?

“
In the arm,”
the man said dismissively. “A scratch really, but he’ll be going to
Scutari. I wouldn’t wish that place on anyone.” He shuddered
dramatically. “Say your goodbye’s now before the typhus gets
him.”

Alec shoved the soldier with a
hand on his shoulder. “Shut it,” he growled. “That’s the man’s
brother.”

“
Don’t I know
it?” the soldier said, glaring. “Looks just like him, don’t he? It
always gives me the shivers to see them together. It isn’t
natural.”

“
You’re an
idiot,” Alec said flatly. “Who decided it would be a good idea to
make you a messenger?”

“
Fuck you,”
the soldier said with a rude gesture. “I shouldn’t have
bothered.”

Brodie still had no words. He
was relieved, greatly so, to find out that both of his brothers
would be alright. But the feeling paled in comparison to the
soul-wrenching relief he’d felt when he’d seen Alec’s smile a few
minutes ago. Brodie knew that from this day forward things were
going to be different. He just wasn’t sure that was a good
thing.

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Lieutenant
Brodie Fletcher of The 93rd Highland Brigade gets a rude shock at
the Battle of Balaclava when he thinks his best friend Captain Alec
Bruce has been killed. The bigger shock is the relief that consumes
Brodie when he finds Alec alive and well. He realizes at that
moment that what he feels for Alec goes beyond friendship. Both
Brodie and Alec have been courting pretty Miss Victoria McMillan
for months, competing for her affection. But what if they didn’t
need to compete? What if Brodie could have it all: Tory McMillan
and his best friend? Is he man enough to lure them both to his bed
and keep them there?

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