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Shelley pulled Duncan into her arht in, not one to let a chance get away

He s that made you happy"

"Oh, yes, Duncan He toldindividual you are"

Duncan looked down at her frowning "Ian did?

Then she laughed "Oh, yes, and I already know I’ to love hiet her own fa with Ethan Campbell, Ian called his little American olf mate into his office and pulled her into his lap He nuzzled her soft neck and said, "Julia, you don’t happen to have any relatives named Ethan and Shelley Campbell, do you?"

"Not that I know of," Julia said "We have a connection to the Duke, but there are so many branches of Campbells that I wouldn’t knoe had any other ties Why?"

"Duncan has mated with a Shelley Ca to an island paradise Sounds like it was just the place he needed to be" Then she frowned "You seem worried, Ian"

"Her uncles and mother plan to live here"

"Oh"

"Aye They were crofters forced to move away in the old days and still resent it"

Julia’s eyes grew big "Oh"

Ian ran his hands over her belly "Aye Her Uncle Ethan is quite outspoken about it"

"What happens when your hed "I want to see Duncan happy"

She gave Ian one of her self-assured smiles "He will be Your mother and aunt can take care of the uncles How many are there? Most importantly, do they have mates?" She arched a brow, and her eyes sparkled with an intriguing thought

"Nay, do not even think of any of the a match We will be lucky if we have any peace around here at all"

Duncan couldn’t decide what to do about Ethan Ca to Ian, the phone in his hand at his side Duncan didn’t think that if Ian had said Shelley’s uncles and ent Castle, Ethan would just hop on a plane and return home to Texas Which meant Uncle Ethan most likely would cause trouble once he learned Shelley was in danger and would want to take her right ho, and she said, "We have to tell Uncle Ethan what’s going on"

"He’ll take you back to Texas"

"No, he won’t Not anyo hoht away Cearnach will arrive, and hoe explain all this? Uncle Ethan needs to know He is family after all"

Duncan didn’t want to explain any of this to Campbell Particularly how they’d lost theirs the land, Duncan’s people could lose it because of a swindler of vast proportions

"We have to tell him," Shelley said

"Tell h the back door, then shutting it "That you need protection?"

Shelley closed her gaping ht have ordered a hit on you for atte to steal her mate? That the MacNeill is close to financial ruin? Tch, now it is the Campbell ill save the MacNeill’s arse"