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"Neda learned Archibald’s father had killed Robert She and Darby went to pay Haldane a visit She killed hih Darby was there to aid her if she needed him to"

Grant’s jaw dropped "I can’t believe it That’s why Darby would never say We thought he’d goneI never knew" He let out his breath "She was a re Grant’s hand "I wish I’d ot here and learned soI never saw her and hated h the deception"

"You couldn’t have known, lass," Grant said, pulling her into his arms "Come, let’s look at more of this later I didn’t find the one for the time period when my mother died yet But let’s take a break Why don’t you tell ht"

"Ha! That’s a secret," she said, knowing he onlyso sad about what had happened to his family and her own "What about you and your bachelor party?"

"You think I would tell you about the stag party when you won’t tell us what you’re up to? Where are you having yours?"

She chuckled "If I told you, you irls’ party again, but she had every intention of the ladies stor the men’s affair

Chapter 22

At dinner, Grant and Colleen noticed that Frederick, the lad as taking care of the dogs, see at her--or at Grant

Colleen suspected what the matter was, but wasn’t about to approach the boy He needed to co you ever since we returned to Farraige Castle," Grant said, seeing her look again in the boy’s direction

"He has I’ve gone out of s, but I won’t coht out and put him on the spot"

Grant turned his attention from Frederick to Colleen "What has he done?"

She shook her head "Nothing of consequence But I believe he’s feeling guilty about it, and he needs to take the first step to ht I have no problem with the lad" She wanted to say it was all Grant’s fault the boy had pulled the prank on her

Grant chewed on his ham, then said, "I can talk to him"

"No He needs to do this on his own" She furrowed her brow at Grant "I’ hihed She shouldn’t have told hi about it

"As you wish," Grant said

But he sounded like it nearly killed him to comply in the matter And she hoped he really would do as she wished instead of being his usual pack-leader self and atte to deal with it

Colleen returned to the study to h Grant had every intention of letting the situation go with Frederick, he couldn’t His job was to see to his pack members’ needs And if one had a problem, he wanted to help