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He’d wished for the Hawk to ent woers like a pro"

"Do you read and write?" he pushed

"Three languages fluently, two reasonably well" It was the priue so well and convince theh soht seem odd to them--they did expect her to be batty--she’d been a quick study at the Co a burr with the ease of a child She’d always had an ear for languages Besides, she’d watched every episode of The Highlander ever roaned The second part of Grimm’s wish had been that the woman be perfect of face and form He need ask no questions on that score She was a Venus, unadorned, who’d slipped into his world, and he had a nagging preain

So, the first two requirements for which Grimm had wished werebeauty

It was the last requirement Grimm had specified that concerned Hawk the most: A perfect "no" on her perfect lips …

The woman didn’t live and breathe who’d ever said no to the Hawk

"Lass, I want you," he said in a raw, husky voice "I will make the most incredible love to you you’ll ever experience this side of Valhalla I can take you beyond paradise, ain Will you let me take you there? Do you want me?" He waited, but he was already certain of as to come

Her lips pursed in a luscious pucker as she said, "No"

"You’ve laid a geis upon me with your bloody wish, Grilas was heard to howl to the starless heavens later that night Beyond a circle of rowan trees Adam stoked a bank of ehter

Adrienne sat in the darkness on the edge of her bed for a long time after he’d left, and flinched at his husky howl that rose to touch the eis? A curse Bah! She was the one cursed

To hi Adrienne de Simone had learned was that where aone of all the rest

Guilty as the legions who’d fallen before her, she wanted this er that far surpassed her attraction to the s about the smithy’s eyes Like Eberhard’s But the Hawk had beautiful dark eyes with flecks of gold dusting them beneath thick sooty lashes Hawk’s eyes hinted at pleasures untold, laughter, and if she wasn’t i it, soht, she told herself caustically The pain of not having enough time to make love to all the beautiful women in the world You knohat he is A woain Don’t be a fool, Adrienne

But she couldn’t shake the discomfort she’d felt each tis to him That perhaps he didn’t deserve them That just because the Haas a dark and beautiful man like Eberhard didn’t ing feeling that she was being unfair to hiical explanation for how and why you’ve suddenly vaulted back from 1997 to 1513? She snorted derisively

Adrienne had learned to exaardless of how irrational the immediate reality appeared to be New Orleans born and raised, she understood that hu So tantalizingly beyond her cos s were odd she was on faical and utterly improbable, all five of her senses insisted that she wasn’t exactly in Kansas anymore

A dim memory teased the periphery of herjust before she’d found herself on the Comyn’s lap? The hours before were hazy, uncertain She could recall the uneasy feeling of being watched … and what else? An odd scent, rich and spicy, that she sainst a blanket of confusion and succeeded only in led with it a moment, then yielded to the pain Adrienne ic behind this irrational reality treat her with more benevolence than whatever had thrown Eberhard her way