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"Are ye asking me, or him?"
"Pew I don’t care; whichever one of you has an opinion"
Je his mother’s determined assault on his private parts with a cold, wet cloth, absorbed in a new song of his own co the lines of "Pe, chit, chit, PEW, PEW"
Brianna put a stop to this by swinging hi chair by the hearth
"Want snackies?" she said, pulling down the neck of her shift invitingly
"God, yes," Roger said, with feeling Bree laughed, not without sympathy, as she settled Je
"Your turn next," she assured Roger "You want oat else on the menu?" Damn, he’d been nearly ready to stand up Back to square one
"Oh, sure Toast with strawberry jaet theer found it hard to concentrate on the discussion, faced with the sight of Brianna in the dihs spread under her shift, her heels tucked under the chair She seemed to detect his lack of interest in matters dietary, for she looked up and s in his own nakdness
"You look nice, Roger," she said softly Her free hand drifted down, resting lightly on the inner curve of one thigh The long, blunt-nailed fingers
"So do you" His voice was husky "Better than nice"
Her hand rose and patted Jeo see Auntie Lizzie after breakfast, sweetie?" she asked, not looking at hier’s, and her wide mouth curved in a slow smile
He didn’t think he could wait until after breakfast to touch her, at least Her shaas thrown across the foot of the bed; he grabbed it and wrapped it round his hps for the sake of decency as he got out of bed and crossed to kneel beside her chair
Her hair stirred and lifted in a draft froooseflesh break out suddenly on her arms He put his arms around them both The draft was cold on his bare back, but he didn’t care
"I love you," he whispered in her ear His hand lay over hers, resting on her thigh
She turned her head and kissed hi contact of soft lips
"I love you, too," she said
She had rinsed her rapes and cold strea down toshivered the timbers of the door, accoer! Are ye in there, man? Up wi’ ye this er hissed to Brianna "Where the hell else would I be?"
"Shh" She nipped his neck and reluctantly let go, her eyes traveling over him with deep appreciation
"He’s already up, Da!" she called
"Aye, it’s likely to be a per!" he bellowed "Where the hell are ht" Brianna set down Jerandfather’s voice and ran to pound on the bolted door Having finally ventured to walk, he had lost no ti on to rapid--and perpetual--locoht flooded into the cabin as the hide over the as thrust aside, revealing Jamie Fraser’s broad-boned face, flushed with exciteer thus revealed, crouched on the floor with a shirt clutched protectively to his midsection
"Move yourself, in’ about bare-arsed; MacLeod says there are beasts just over the ridge" He blew a kiss to Jeer forgot both sex and self-consciousness He jerked the shirt over his head and stood up
"What kind? Deer, elk?"
"I dinna ken, but they’rethe room half in shadow