Free One Thousand Years to Forever by Mary Moriarty

but somehow he
doubted it.
    “ Why were you following us? You
scared my girls, you’ve traumatized them... you bastards!”
Katherine could see she was getting through to one of them, but the
other, she could feel his hatred. The animosity was seeping from
his pores. She felt it in waves. That made her all the more mad.
She hauled off and kicked the second one, square in the balls. His
head went down and she kicked him in the face. She kept kicking and
punching until one of Colum’s men pulled her off.
    She was crying, swearing and beyond
reason. She was hitting the smaller of Travis’s nephews as he tried
to hold her. He knew he could be in trouble for holding her back.
The other one got on the phone.
     
    * * * * * * *
     
    Colum answered his phone. About to
excuse himself, he saw his father put his hand up, telling him to
stay and take the call there.
    “ Yes?”
    “ Sir, I don’t think she will be in
any shape to drive back. She wants to kill these men and I’m afraid
that in her condition, she may go off the road.”
    Colum knew from the past that
Katherine had a temper. At one time she had been a warrior also.
“Can you keep her separated from those men till I can get
there?”
    “ Yes, Sir, but the only way we can
contain her, for even a little time, is if you take the
copter.”
    “ My plan already. We will be
leaving within ten minutes. My ETA is forty minutes.”
    Colum hung up and looked at the
group. “Our future Queen is wanting to take care of things
herself.”
    “ What happened?” His father
asked.
    Colum started to walk towards the
door. “Let’s just put it this way, once Katherine got going she was
ready to kill the both of those men with her bare hands. Had our
men not been there she would have and she’s giving them a hard time
now... I know only too well.”
    One man laughed. “If she is
anything like she was at Clontarf she is going to be a mighty
Queen, but you need to change her so we don’t loose her
again.”
    “ I know... I have been told that
twice already today.”
     
    * * * * * * *
     
    Katherine sat with a cup of
Starbucks coffee in her hand. She was slowly calming down, no
longer shaking with the anger that had consumed her, filling her
with blind rage. She now sat waiting for Colum to arrive. His two
henchmen had the two spies in the Humvee. She had talked to the men
who worked for Colum and they had said, “Don’t go anywhere, as
Colum will not be happy with us if something happens to
you.”
    So she sat. But then her blood
started to boil again. She thought about how convenient it had been
that her car had broken down. Now, why would it happen then of all
times? Well, he had a lot of explaining to do, if he thought she
was a push over or a lady in distress... he had another thing
coming. She had never been one to back away from a challenge or
danger. Working with EMS in the city, she had gone to her fair
share of scary calls. And hadn’t she been right there searching and
digging along with the men of her husband’s crew to locate her
husband and others who were trapped that fateful day? Colum was
going to find out just whom he had boxed into the corner... because
that’s just how she felt and she wasn’t going to be boxed or
coddled.
    She craned her neck out the Rover’s
window to get a glimpse of the helicopter that she could hear
coming. Sure enough, there was a black copter, with green marking,
coming in for a landing. She got out.
    “ Stay,” she said to the
girls.
    She stood and waited while the
blades of the helicopter slowed and then stopped spinning. The
doors opened up and out climbed Colum from the pilot’s seat. Travis
his butler, climbed out of the passenger’s side. He then turned and
grabbed a bag from the back seat. It looked like a doctor’s bag
from forty years ago. She turned her attention back to Colum who
had turned and was now walking towards her.
    She felt his eyes on her. She
couldn’t detect their color yet. She knew that told a lot