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His look was direct, his eyes unquestioning

Tara waited for hi

When he did, it was as if they were the only two standing in the crowd of hundreds

“From the North, to the South, in the East or in the West Where you go I will follow, your light will shineday” The air stirred “Where two hearts beat, there is now but one This tie that binds us together shall never be undone”

Lightning over a clear sky cracked, startling the crowd The rope turned warlowed His body shuddered as part of his very essence soared away from him and into her If not for Duncan’s hold, Tara would have fallen to the ground as the effect hit her

It is okay, trust hts to her withouthis lips

He lifted her veil and watched her eyes turn s pounded the sky when their lipsof lips, but one that charged the depths of their being She sighed into histheir lives were forever changed

The men took Duncan aside and helped him remove his armor Fin questioned him in Gaelic In turn, Tara was surrounded by woht up in it all, took pictures, and brushed away foolish tears

Gwen calea was perfect How do you feel, Lady Tara?” Gwen’s ahts

Tara envisioned Duncan again, this time they were deep in a passionate enificent, exactly what I want to hear

Reht is for fantasy, tomorrow your life returns to nor the notice of the crowd “Let the celebrations co area had been transfor sun

Tables were lavishly set with flowers befitting the occasion

A hand placed on her arm sparked Tara kneas him before she turned They had only been apart for a short while So why did it seeether now Music started, Duncan took her to the dance floor They said nothing at first

“Come home with me, Tara”

His request would have shocked her had it come twenty-four hours earlier Somehow, it didn’t now

“You would love my land and the people in it”

“I would love to visit Scotland,” she told him

“Winter break will be here before you know it I’ll have to apply for a Visa, and I don’t have a passport”

“If I could take you there tonight, without all those things, would you coht?” She shook her head “That isn’t possible Besides, classes start up next week”

Tara saw his rebuttal on his lips, but instead of talking, he kissed her

Within seconds, her brain swaht

She broke off their kiss, thinking she heard hie your flight hoht”

“Would you leave withoutyou to coed, his body tensed

Yes! I’ll coh she hadn’t said the words aloud

Her hair stood up, and a shiver went down her back

Oh my God! You can hear me

“Aye, love, I can”

Blood rushed fro stars as the oxygen was sucked from the cells in her brain

Nay, now none of that! Duncan held her with a fir crazy

Then I am crazy, too