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"She can’t rent the car for a year"

Enrick smiled "You do think she’ll stay for the entire tis," Grant said vaguely

"And what else?" Enrick asked

"Soht have sent Hercules to her cha outside her room?" Enrick asked

"In her bed"

Enrick frowned "How did she get him out of her…the beef"

"Aye"

Enrick shook his head "I’llended up there"

Colleen knew she couldn’t do anything sneakily around the castle unless it was the ht and everyone was asleep Even then, the cook had caught her in the kitchen last night She would use the rest of theall over her in the future, if she could help it

Now, she wanted to see as taking the dogs to the kennels and putting them to bed As soon as she reached for the handle to the front door of the keep, a ht"

Lachlan She turned and smiled at him "I’ll be fine"

"Mind if I join you?"

She paused "Because you want to or need to?"

His mouth curved up "Because I want to, of course"

She knew she wouldn’t be able to speak to the lad in charge of the dogs without soht"

He opened the door for her, and then they walked outside She heard the dogs barking to the left of the bailey and assumed the kennels were behind the stables She headed in that direction

"Are you checking out the horses?"

"Dogs"

"Ah," Lachlan said

"How s do you have?"

"Three--two males and a female They’re from one of Ian MacNeill’s litters Isurreptitiously Had Grant also? She’d seen theon the seawall stop to observe her All had worn smiles "I’m surprised no one has ever tried to train thelanced at hi they’d had so little success She thought the dogs were quite easily trained

"Aye They nore the rest of us, no matter how alpha we are"

She said, "If you ever want me to show you how, just ask"

"I do Anytime we both have free time"

"It’s a deal"