Midnight's Seduction by Donna Grant

friend because you’re a good person and a Druid. We have a destiny to help these Warriors end Deirdre. But you aren’t just my friend. Every woman here is like a sister to me. Please remember you are one of us.”
    Now Saffron felt lower than a slug. Before she could apologize again, Dani was gone. Saffron squared her shoulders and spent the next ten minutes blow-drying her hair and devising a plan of action.
    There was time before she would be needed to awaken Laria. Time for her to take care of family business.

 
    CHAPTER
    SIX
    Saffron rolled up the waist of the borrowed burgundy sweats and hastily yanked on a sweatshirt. She walked soundlessly in her socks next door to Ian and Dani’s room.
    She heard Dani’s laughter as she raced to the door, with Ian saying something in his low, deep voice that had Dani laughing again.
    The door suddenly opened and Dani gave her a big smile. “We’re about to start a movie, want to watch? I’m still getting Ian acclimated to this time. We watched Die Hard last night, which, of course, he loved. Something about men and blowing things up.” Dani shook her head, but she was still smiling. “We’re going to watch Pride and Prejudice tonight.”
    Dani leaned in close and whispered, “I have a feeling Ian won’t enjoy this one as much.”
    Saffron couldn’t help but smile. It had been so very long since she’d watched a movie. She used to love going to the movie theaters every week, seeing two shows back to back sometimes.
    “Thank you, but no,” Saffron said. “Actually, I came to ask if I could borrow your cell.”
    “Cell?” Dani said, her face scrunched up. Then she chuckled as she turned away from the door and walked to a bench where her purse sat. “Ah, you mean my mobile phone. I know I was raised in Florida for several years, but I’ve gotten used to the British way of saying things.”
    Saffron gave a nod to Ian when she found him staring at her.
    “Is everything all right, Saffron?” Ian asked.
    She plastered on a fake smile and nodded. “Of course. I just have a few calls to make.”
    Dani walked back to the door and held out her iPhone to Saffron.
    She took the phone and held it for a moment before she said, “I’m going to have to make some overseas calls. I’ll pay you for the charges.”
    “No,” Dani said. “We’re sisters here. We may not be blood, but we’re bonded by magic, which goes just as deep. Make your calls, Saffron, and don’t worry about the charges.”
    Saffron smiled her thanks and returned to her room. She wasn’t used to the kindness she had been shown at MacLeod Castle ever since she had arrived.
    Why did she have to go halfway around the world and be abducted for three years by a deranged psychopath before she found the type of friends she had always longed for?
    Saffron closed her door and walked to the bed as she stared at the cell phone. “Mobile,” she said, mimicking Dani’s Scottish brogue.
    She smiled, but the smile soon faded as her stomach knotted with the realization she was going to have to make calls she’d rather not make.
    But she’d start off easy. The first call went to her attorney, the same attorney her father had used in all his business and personal matters.
    Saffron dialed the number she had known since she had been old enough to dial a phone. It took a moment for the call to connect. Three rings later, she heard the soothing, cultured voice of Arthur Myles, attorney extraordinaire.
    “Arthur,” Saffron said, and felt a huge weight lift off her shoulders just by saying his name.
    “Saffron,” he whispered, the surprise evident in the catch of his voice. “Is that really you, girl?”
    He had always called her “girl” from the moment of her birth. Arthur and her father had been the best of friends growing up in Colorado, and that friendship had continued through the years.
    “It’s me,” she said. “It’s really me.”
    “But your mother has filed papers to have you declared legally