Chapter 45
"She's what?" Jessie felt like someone had kicked her in the stomach. "She's Lachlan's mother?"
Cate stared at Maeve, who did not take those haunting eyes off Jessie.
"Apparently she has not told you. What do you know of this Ceara woman, Jessie?"
Jessie told Maeve everything she knew about Ceara; from the first moment they met to her refusal to enter the portal. When she was done, Maeve finally looked away, leaving Jessie feeling slightly dizzy.
"It is she," Maeve whispered, sitting on one of the rocks. The bonfire leapt and crackled. "No wonder you have had such an easier time of it, Catie. You two have the help of a woman who was once one of the greatest healers on the island. People came from as far as Gaul to be healed by Ceara."
"She's a healer?"