Chapter 48

I gasped. “Lattie is dead?”

“Oh, goodness, no!” He replied quickly with a nervous laugh. “She’s very much alive. At least, she was, the last time I heard.”

I sighed with relief. I didn’t know I cared about Lattie’s well-being until now.

“So, what happened to her then? Where did she go?”

“Well, about two months ago, she ran into someone from her past in the village market. It turns out they were both in love with each other before she got sold off to the Highlands as a slave.”

“Oh.”

“Yeah… They didn’t see or heard from each other all these years. She thought he was dead and he thought the same too. But when they met again…”

“They fell in love all over again,” I said, completing his sentence for him.

“Exactly. At least she was honest enough to tell me the truth right off the bat.”

I felt sorry for sweet old Albert. He got dumped by the love of his life for someone else. How awful.

“That day when she returned from the market, I knew something had happened,” he said. “She was in an excell