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When she discovered he’d "gone shopping" without infor curls and scowled, ordering him to procure additional iteold coin his liege had given hi clean (so h, but he didn’t even need thein with) woolens, eously costly sheets of parchment--the parchment and quills because she’d proclaimed she was "a writer" and it was imperative she write every day without fail At first he’d been puzzled by her bragging that she knew her letters, then he realized it was, like as not, a rare achieveined he knew many more letters than she, and if she still needed to practice them, she was a sorry apprentice indeed

Unimpressed with the results of his second expedition, she’d sent him back a third time, with a tidy little list on a scrap of parch tea, a cauldron, , soft woolens, down ticks, wine, and "unless you wish to fish the sea yourself," fresh fish for the useless furry beastie

Vengeance, being ordered about by a o food for aEspecially in the pale pink gown she’d dug out of one of the many trunks Her eyes sparkled with irritation or as she listed her deestured, then she turned all cooing and tender as she stooped to scratch the beastie behind its furry ears

Making hiht feel like in his hair

He was unprepared for one such as she and wondered why his king had not forewarned hi None that he’d e’er encountered in his past travels had been so co had e’er painted them as coarse, sullen, and stupid creatures, easily eance

He’d not yet manipulated the s ordered about by her Build ive ht she de’s wrath--was almost afraid to find out

"Kiss me"

"What?" he said blankly

"Kiss eance stepped back, inwardly cursing hi about the fiery lass made him itch to flee to the farthest reaches of the isle At her direction, he’d fluffed several heavy down ticks on the sole bed in the keep She was happily spreading it with soft woolens and a luxurious green velvet throw he’d not intended to buy He’d been coerced into taking it by the proprietor, who’d been delighted to hear a woerly inquired "Be ye the new laird and lady of Dun Haakon?" Scowling, he’d flung coin at the shopkeeper, snatched up the bedclothes, andto resent that his king had given hieance kneho he was and what his aiarish world he did not understand, surrounded by creatures he could not fathoe

And now the wench wanted hi else Precisely what, he wasn’t certain, but he suspected it boded ill for hireatly preoccupied with her physical co oft said--lay weakness, folly, and ruin Vengeance had few physical needs, merely food, water, and the occasional hour of rest

"Kiss ave the velvet coverlet a final sht help you remember"

"What exactly is a kiss?" he asked suspiciously

Her eyes widened and she regarded him with amazement "You don’t knohat a kiss is?" she exclai, is it not?"

She cocked her head and looked as if she were having a heated internal debate After a moment she appeared to reach a decision and stepped closer to hi to cede an inch

"I ainst yours," she said, innocence knitted to a disarether, like so" She de deep in his groin

"Nay You may not touch ht a faint scent, so sweet and flowery on her fiery tresses It reedily, and stroke the coppery curls