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He paused only a heartbeat before ripping the shirt fro off his boots Clad only in his kilt, he eased onto the bed and wrapped hihtly

"Adrienne!" He cursed harshly as he cradled her in his arer? Fro that they were to have hadher between his legs, his arhtly around her while she thrashed and shuddered, his chin resting upon her head

Deep in the night the fever peaked, and she talked, and cried silvery tears

She would never know that he kissed them away, one by one

She would never know that he listened with a heavy heart as she cried for afor, and that he wished with all his ht that he had been the first man she’d loved

Ever-hard Darrow Garrett The bastard who’d broken his wife’s heart

What kind of self-respecting Scotsman was naered the siven him, even as Adrienne called for it in her deliriua, she searched desperately for it in the inky corridors of her mind

It was the co hi to open his eyes, he felt his surroundings with his senses first Damn it, she still burned! Hotter, if possible His wife of scant days dying in his arms What had woken him? Was it the Rom, finally arrived?

"Let me pass!" The smithy’s voice thundered froh to rattle it Hawk came fully awake That man’s voice made his body ready for battle

"The Haill kill you, in with, and he’s not in a good telad he’d posted a half-guard outside the Green Lady’s rooht have done if he’d woken to find the arrogant blacks down at him in his present frame of mind

"Fools! I said I can cure her," the smithy snapped

Hawk stiffened instantly

"A fool, I am?" Grimm’s voice cracked with disbelief "Nay, a fool is he who thinks there’s a cure for such a poison as Callabron!"

"Dare you risk it, Grimm?" the sh the closed door

He heard the sound of swords drawing aith a uards parted the crossed blades that had been barring entrance to the Green Lady’s roo fra to play with one before I spill your blood and watch it run on my floor ’Twould be a wee distraction, but it would make me feel better"