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"I guess she’s not going anywhere unless we take her there," Enrick said, a sround "Lead the way"

Grant grunted and loped back to his chamber When he reached it, he shifted and heard his brother laying Colleen on the bed in the lady’s chamber

"Be sure to bolt the door in her room," Grant said He heard the bolt slide closed and then Enrick joined Grant in his bedchaht she’d be Thank God you caught her before she took a dangerous dunking in the sea," Enrick said

"Yeah, that’s why I wanted her door bolted If she opens it, I’ll hear it I’ll do the sa," Enrick said, and Grant noticed the s all right by then," Grant said, then closed the door after his brother’s departure and bolted it At the very least, if she tried to leave the chamber, she’d have to shift first to unbar the door He hoped she’d sleep the rest of the night instead

Now that he wasn’t leaping over seawalls and trying to secure her safety, he looked at her one last time She was a pretty ith a reddish-brown mask The lower half of her face hite all the way down her throat, and the white above her dark brown eyes emphasized them With that and red fur in a strip down her nose, she looked just lovely Her coloring rerayer

Satisfied Colleen wasn’t going anywhere, he returned to bed This ti sleep

Until a hand fell against his bare chest, giving him a near heart attack He jurab his sword, when he saw that the intruder was Colleen, snuggled under his blankets and sleeping in his bed! And naked

"What are you doing in my bed?" Grant roared

"Closer…to the…bathroom," she said, her voice hushed with sleep, and yet she seeh awareness to know her own mind and that she would have her way in this, or else

He absolutely refused to move into the lady’s chamber He couldn’t, not if he wished to keep face with hisstaff would sain, now they would smell the lady’s scent on his sheets

He could not allow the woman to sleep in his bed! Yet what choice did he have? If she needed to reach the bathroom quickly, he had to admit that she should be closer to it

Which ot out of bed as she turned to watch hiain Despite her inebriated state, orhi hirabbed his kilt, the quickest thing within reach, and belted it around his waist, then left his chamber

Hell and damnation First day of the lass’s arrival and what happens? He’s rescuing her in the ht for all to see And now this She was naked, sleeping in his bed, and he was off to look for a place to rest for the reht