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Silence

She ser…"

"Aye," she said, borrowing his brogue The way she said the word still sounded American to her ear

He chuckled "You would not have been successful"

"We’ll never knoe?" she asked in a tone htweight sword also" Being from a family of pirates ensured that

Thankfully, Vardon had seemed to conored hi toBesides, he’d said it to infuriate Cearnach, not to slander her At least that’s the way she was going to view it

She sighed, touching her lips They were deliciously swollen froe of her to such an extent She’d always re stuck on a human could only mean disaster And a wolf?

She barely refrained fro A as even worse At least based on her experience

Her whole body heated again as she recalled the force of his kiss, the passion behind it, the raw need they’d both exhibited while sharing it She sensed so more for her than he had felt for women in the past

She sht Cearnach’s curiosity The kiss had thoroughly shaken her,her want much more than was safe For Cearnach, such a kiss was probably nothingthe saet her mind off the way he’d made her feel, Elaine continued to pull the fabric of her dress away fro to dry it in front of the heater

If she had been alone, she would have slipped into the backseat, ru else on Now she wished she hadn’t worn this particular dress Robert Kilpatrick had told her to wear a red dress if she had one so he’d be able to pick her out of a crowd Considering how rainy and cold it was, she would have had to wear her raincoat while she was at the castle ruins, and Robert wouldn’t have seen her red dress anyway

"Have you been to Scotland before, lass? I orried youthe church before I escorted you inside"

She didn’t want to answer hi in Scotland before She skipped instead to the issue of the camera and pretended to be a nice little tourist She patted her purse "Caed, new disk ready to fill up with pictures," she said proudly

"Except now it’s raining so hard that it won’t retful

She took a deep breath, recalling the scent of the wolf she’d lad Cearnach didn’t see the note fro life had cos froe and the lure of laying claim to the bounty her uncles had hidden somewhere in Scotland, she had been enticed to return

Of course her cousin wanted a share of the booty He didn’t know all the details of where the stash was hidden Just as she didn’t have all the details, either--like two halves of a treasure et the alpha wolf’s share since her uncles had forfeited their lives for taking it from merchant vessels, and she’d been the one to suffer for it once they died

"Elaine," Cearnach said as he continued to watch the road, the rain pounding the windshield

She glanced at hiry one

"Did you hearoutabout lots of stuff she didn’t want him to know about

"We’vein a strictly say ht make her come clean

If she had realized who he hen she first iven him a different name Still, she could tell he couldn’t recall who she was Easy to see why The clothes she’d worn had covered her from head to toe Sure, he’d smelled her scent, touched her, looked deeply into her face, but that had been so long ago, in a different place and time, and she had only been sixteen

"Where have we ed "You must have met someone who looks si him she hadn’t been to Scotland before, but he would sense she wasn’t telling the truth

"I… attempted… to… rescue you," he said, slowly, deliberately, as if he was trying to recall the circu for her to fess up