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Enrick frowned and breathed in the scents on them "I didn’t want to mention that Colleen had been in my underwear drawer I asked Lachlan if she’d been in his, but he said no We discovered she’d been in yours So ere just a little apprehensive about bringing it up--especially e learned you’d mated her" He took another whiff of them "But I smell Heather’s scent on them, too What’s up?"

"Apparently, Heather had asked Julia if she would encourage Colleen to capture a pair of your trunks to add to the pirate’s pole"

"Pirate’s pole?"

"Aye The lasses had several of ours dangling from the pole Which we prohed Lachlan said, "Don’t leave us out of the next bash you’re involved in Sounds like too much fun"

Enrick said, "Heather clai that over

"Aye Want to tell us anything about that, Brother?" Grant asked, a to tell This is news to me"

To Grant also

"I would say you have all the luck," Lachlan said, "but Heather is nothing but trouble So I’d say I had all the luck" Lachlan shoved his hands in his pockets and grinned

Colleen was so inundated with choices, starting with the wedding gown--MacQuarrie plaid or an off-white affair since she’d beencere her heart desired Colleen had asked Grant, and he said the same--whatever she wanted He would love her in it He had been absolutely no help at all

They had to discuss the color of flowers and the kind of food to serve at the reception Then they had to consider the particulars of the bachelorette party, which ain Different theht that the pirate ladies’ the else, though, just for the bachelorette party

Colleen was curious what the bachelor party would consist of Maybe she and the ladies could crash it

Enrick had contacted all the wo And to his surprise and Grant’s, they had deet to extend their holiday by that ht

Enrick and Lachlan had escorted Calla to a birthday party she was hosting late that afternoon for a ten-year-old in another town, so they were serving as her bodyguards They didn’tover her, but both had vehe like clowns Even so, they did it out of a sense of obligation

Happy to not have to consider anything wedding-related for the whole afternoon, Colleen immersed herself in the finances of the pack and found discrepancies centuries earlier and again last year Neither was related because the time that had elapsed between them was more than several hundred years

But still, she was curious about the first-- the estates as the MacQuarries had clai it, she’d never heard of anyone else adh the old documents that had been scanned into the computer, she realized Uilleam Borthwick had been the administrator of the estates at their inception but continued for only a feeeks Which was probably why future generations didn’t know about it