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As they made their way to the tree stu next to her than her surroundings Alnnah was finding it difficult to concentrate on anything other than her longing to to just be held by hio She also feared thattoo close could be disastrous

"Alannah Ferguson, I areat action, yet since I have ed dramatically" he said as they sat down, "the reason I will not help you run again, is simple, I can't lose you Alannah I love you, and I would do anyhing if you would marry me I asked your brother Erik what the probability would be of your father granting me permission to marry you, and he told me that he would rather kill hter"

Alannah jumped to her feet, stunned into speechlessness for a moment "DominicNo… I …"

"Alannah do you love , but what about Rosemary? Aren't you supposed to ht we had this cleared up Alannah Roseement either formal or in formal" He said rather irritated and then added "I am very reat interest in a union between his daughter and myself The fact is he has never cohter, he is a low life and coward Roses on me like I am her property, she tries to flaunt what she doesn't have and I can see how it hurts you Knohat h to approach me on that subject, so they just interject themselves into our lives at inconvient ti?"

"Alannah I have made it clear to my mother that when I have met the woman I intend to spend the rest of my life with, and when I have fallen in love with this wo and ask for her hand in e Alannah, fro, you captured my heart and if you hts Her family isshall we saybeyond my station She does not love the land, nor the people, the way you do and that is important to me You are the first and only woman to deal with me honestly and to speak to me from the heart …"