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"Only too well One of the Lady Hawk"

"She had to know it couldn’t be, Hawk Everyone knows you’ve been as good as wed since King Jaood as dead And I don’t want to talk about it"

"The ti to have to talk about it, you’re going to have to do so out Or don’t you care?" Hawk slanted a savage look Gri sure, that’s all There’s scarce a fortnight left, reht, heavy with glowing stars "How could I forget?"

"You really think James would carry out his threats if you don’t wed the Comyn lass?"

"Absolutely," Hawk said flatly

"I just don’t understand why he hates you so much"

A sardonic smile flitted across the Hawk’s face He knehy Jao Hawk’s parents had humiliated James to the seat of his vain soul Since the Hawk’s father had died before Ja had turned on Hawk in his father’s stead

For fifteen long years James had controlled every e of service was to expire, James contrived a plan to affect every futureforced to wed a lass he didn’t know and didn’t want A reclusive spinster as ru James’s twisted idea of a lifetis,an end to the topic

The twofor different reasons as they stared into the velvety sky An owl hooted softly fros in sweet concerto, offering twilight tribute to Dalkeith Stars pulsed and shiht’s blue-black canopy

"Look One falls There, Hawk What do youfro in its wake

"Es star ’twill be granted"

"Did you wish just now?"

"Tinker talk," Hawk scoffed "Foolish romantic nonsense for dreamy-eyed lasses" Of course he’d wished Every ti star lately Always the sa it," Grirumbled, not to be swayed by Hawk’s mockery "I wish …"