Page 45 of Flanders’ Folly (The Curse of Clan Ross #7)

The wedding took place ten days after the enchanted animation of Les Misérables was played upon the wall at The Edinburgh house. In those ten days, Flanders and Brigid had experienced quite enough of Technology and the 21 st century, and were begging for a respite from it all. Thus, Wickham arranged for what he called a honeymoon for them far away from the city, where he promised the night sky would appear exactly as it used to, back in the year 1329.

After the ceremony, the sorcerer would deliver them to a hunting lodge deep in the Scottish Highlands, which would be stocked with the foods they requested and no technology whatsoever, save an ice box and the plumbing and fresh water to which they’d grown fond.

They would be allotted twenty-one days in their private sanctuary before they would be moved to the home of James and Phoebe, where they would begin their educations anew.

The ceremony was performed by a modern-day priest named Father Donne, in a magnificent church in Inverness. Once, merely a royal burgh and strategic settlement, it was now a fine city with so much technology, both the bride and groom were willingly blindfolded both to and from St. Mary’s. Transported in a carriage with no horses, by the way—a feat no one wished to take the time to explain that day.

While they waited to sign the official wedding documents, Flanders pulled Brigid into his arms to make a confession.

“Brigid Leesborn.”

She giggled at his sober expression. The woman was quite enjoying her day and he’d yet to have her alone, to truly make it memorable.

She blinked. “Aye?”

“I shall need at least two sons.”

She sobered only slightly. “Two?”

“At least two. I shall call them James and Robert.”

She sighed. "Then I shall endeavor not to bear ye three."

He scowled. Three didn’t seem too much to hope for. "Prithee, why not?"

She gave him a devilish grin. "Because I do not think any laddie should be named Stout. "

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