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"You…you are still playing the gah"

Okay, so that’s what she thought He didn’t really a the sword at hi to let that deter him

"I like your determination, playfulness, and resourcefulness Next time we bob for apples, I want you oninto sacks of grain and barely catching herself before she fell on top of the to get hi after her

"Nay, lass I had first lookout" He drew closer

"First…lookout?"

"Aye, you see, each of us has vowed to capture any pirate wench who approaches the keep You were the first I clai her to hed "You are too funny, Grant, though I have to say I love your sense of huh with need, his hands on her shoulders, caressing, endearing He wasn’t playing now No teasing light in his eyes He was all business, his eyes dark with desire "You can’t teaseyou have clai them for the whole of Ian’s pack to see, and then say it is all pretend You are not pretend You are real The way your heart beats when I am near, and es, telling me you want me like I want you--this is real"

She sue-tied But around Grant like this, with his close proximity, the way his musky male wolf scent tantalized her, the way he looked at her as if she was sex in a risqué costume, her emotions swept her away Yes, she’d been s, but she hadn’t felt the sa torrent of e and sexual arousal--unbalanced her, h she needed a safety line And someone to tell her if this kind of a relationship was healthy and would work out for a very long lupus garou’s lifetiive up on him and the castle, and turn over her inheritance to her cousins? Could she stay here a whole year and a day, and be just the owner of the castle, while he served as her et over the physical attraction to hi so ht about what Archibald had said, but she didn’t believe hirandfather and parents had been murdered His people had worried that Grant and his brothers were next Archibald had to have lied to attempt to cause dissention between her and Grant

Her heart was beating like a she-as caught, tested, and forced to tell the truth Yet she couldn’t say it What if she rong about Grant and her being right for each other?

Or what if she was still fantasizing about thea and co, but he wouldn’t let her go, wouldn’t step back out of her space He was forcing her to hear his own rapid heartbeat, the smell of his arousal, and the feel of his heated body

"To see Julia" That was true She had to see her and bounce her thoughts off her friend as they had always done How could Julia have h with Colleen first? Yet she hadn’t wanted to talk to Julia with the other ladies present, and she hadn’t believed Grant would end up here, too

"About?" Grant asked, his hands cupping her face, his thuaze locked on hers, alpha to alpha

You Colleen took a deep breath No, not about him But about… "Us"