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He shook his head, saw that his brothers had already entered the keep, and hoped they ensured that everything for the meal would be just as he had ordered

As soon as they entered the keep, he heard the sound of his dogs racing to greet theht, but they would be here s? They sounded like horses sta

Grant smiled, ready for the next phase of his plan to work

Before Colleen and Grant and the others reached the dining roo as horses sprinted toward her She thought they would attack They did--in a wet, slobbery, loving way Thank God, she loved anih she wasn’t ready for the assault of the giant, wo hounds that dwarfed her and would be taller than their s They were Irish wolfhounds, with big, doe-like brown eyes; huge, arues; and bristly chin whiskers that made them look like little old men They were adorable, but they needed soo about it

She’d need some treats And a clickable pen

She wanted to scowl at Grant, who didn’t s as they nipped at her in playful exuberance and jumped all over her If they ripped her skirt, she would take it out of Grant’s salary

His men watched, smiled, chuckled, and waited to see her reaction when she couldn’t take one footstep tohat she suspected was the great hall She greeted the dogs, atte she wasn’t scared of thely, she couldn’t hide from the men that she felt a bit overwhele, she wouldn’t be able to establish to anyone that she was the owner of this castle

She had to res took tiht

The dogs finally "escorted" her to the great hall, as if the wondrous aro was too et her They kept returning to her, or looking back to ht was cute of the her to the feast were half-naked She almost smiled All these men seated at the tables, bare chested, some as hairy as the hounds, wouldas she didn’t have to be nude, she didn’t care

And Grant? He ht think to intimidate her with his nakedness and his sweatiness, but hey, she was a wolf, and he s off him in delectable waves She took another deep breath of him, while she attempted not to let him kno much he interested her She adelo’s sculpture of David in a kilt, rather than totally in the raw Though she couldn’t help wondering how Grant would look standing on a pedestal like that, totally in the raw She sed to reach the great hall, where rough-hewn boards were set up as trestle tables with benches next to theht she’d landed in the medieval period Julia must not have known about this or she would have warned her Colleen was dying to say how quaint it was for theue She didn’t want Grant to think he’d gotten her goat, as her father used to say

At least the tables were situated like a co as the head table, and she wouldn’t see beneath the lower tables and witness hoell-endowed--or not--the men were in their kilts, in case they hoped to shock her