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But he didn’t seeone Unless he’d kissed her as a way of changing the dynamics between them Sure, kiss the she-wolf, make her melt under his touch, and she’d be as malleable as any beta wolf under his jurisdiction

She didn’t knohy she was thinking along those lines Maybe the feeling of being in her ancestral hoed in an odd sort of way Maybe her dad didn’t, but being here felt right to her Despite the way Grant didn’t care for her presence

Nohi other than her professional side--this was business, after all She didn’t want to think of herself as his superior, but she had to remember that’s just what she was The boss did not kiss her employee, and she had to reht back to hiht to leave her alone How he’d grabbed his kilt from the bench and stalked out of the rooain He’d been naked Only this time in bed with her And she, likewise

A recipe for disaster

Her cell rang and she wasn’t sure who to expect One of her cousins, ood tih with lunch"

She smiled at Grant, who looked like he expected her to tell him who had called and then he’d tell her how much he disapproved

After the ardens, and Enrick and Lachlan wished a ith Grant about the tour Both were concerned that it had not gone well--mainly because he didn’t wish to discuss it He noted that as soon as she’d made it outside, she’d made a phone call, probably to the person who had called her during lunch He suspected it was Archibald and that she wanted to speak with him in private That didn’t bode well

"Her father was Neda’s flesh-and-blood son, but ere the ones who took care of Neda and her properties," Lachlan said, getting wound up about the situation all over again

"Don’t you think she did it for the lass? Her only grandchild, to carry on the faround his teeth "Colleen has never lived here before She’s not part of the heritage or the history" Even though she see fancy Living here day in, day out would be a whole otherabout the place like we do This is home for us Always has been She is just a visitor"

He tried to convince himself of that What if he was to fall for the lass--not that that was at all likely--but what if he did, and she wanted to leave after the weather got bad? Or she longed for her American home?

He’d be mated to a she-ould be depressed and unhappy, and then what? Would she drink to drown her sorrows? He could envision the whole situation beco was for a lifeti?