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"Okay, so where is she?" Grant asked, folding his arainst a counter And then he thought about the daone," Enrick said "Whatever you said worked"

Grant felt sick to his stoone? You s are still here Aren’t they?"

"We didn’t look She didn’t say anything to anyone Just got in her car and drove off late this ," Enrick said "I didn’t know if she’d already packed or what She didn’t have breakfast with us or anything I don’t knohen she got up Maybe as late as you? What happened last night?"

Grant glanced at Maynard

"I told the else," Maynard said, shrugging

"Lachlan, check and see if her bags are still here," Grant said, not liking how shaken up he felt

"Aye" Lachlan gave Enrick a look that said he wasn’t sure as going on

Grant had wanted her to leave, but not like this Not if she was upset about her father’s deceitfulness and the fact that she randmother before she died That scenario was a little too harsh for the lass to deal with on her oithout soh it And certainly not if she had taken off to be with Archibald and he was there to soothe her

"Enrick, learn which direction she headed," Grant said

Enrick shook his head "Ian and his brothers warned us that you would have ained for" He hurried out of the kitchen

Grant scowled at Maynard, who quickly went back to preparing Grant’s breakfast

Colleen didn’t knohere to go, but she had to get away from the castle Away frorandrandet in touch with her and hadn’t been able to

All the pictures, the album full of therandrandrandhter she’d never et away

She brushed awaydown her cheeks She didn’t want anyone to see howto do with not reaching out to her grandmother? That she had shunned her like her father had?

They

She drove forever it seehland cows in fenced-in pastures and black-faced sheep nibbling on shorn green grass on the sides of hills When she arrived at a village, she slowed down and saw gray stone homes, two bed and breakfasts, an inn, and Kelton’s Pub She was not a drinker, not like her father had been But she’d driven for et a bite to eat and so to drink She’d ht before, not with Grant scowling because she was ry