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"Aye, a kiss"

"And nothing more That is it"

"You will demand more of me, I’arden rooht"

"Does anyone else know that you came for me?"

He chuckled "They would think me a beastly sort if I didn’t rescue my bonny mate from the clutches of those enches"

"And have your ithher first ladies’ night out in Scotland could end like this

He’d barely carried her to a guest chaering kisses, as if the hours they had been apart had been tooher close

And she adored hiht party I have," she said, the blanket she’d covered herself with slipping off her shoulders

"Hmm," was all he said as he quickly divested her of her red heart-patterned flannel paja pajama bottoms soon joined it

He scooped her up and carried her to the bed, the navy curtains already pulled aside

Red rose petals had been strewn all over the white sheets, and she srant petals

"Who did this?" she asked, not believing any of the

"Calla and some of the other ladies snuck away and decorated the bed"

"You all were in collusion"

He smiled

She couldn’t believe the woht they’d just returned to the castle to brush their teeth and the like

He stripped before she could offer to remove his kilt And then he joined her on the mattress and closed the bed curtains

His eyes were like pools ofevery bit of her in as he ran his hands over her skin She’d seen hieous for him like this But it was his exploration of her naked body that made her want to pull up the covers