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"Um…" Wasn’t there soid?"

Or fat and jolly? Safe and approachable?

Caras standing in front of her "Are you all right?"

"I’ave you a start"

She squeezed her eyes shut Father Carwyn ap Bryn was approachable, all right, but not for any reasons the pope would approve of She could feel the heat rising along her neck Her heart thumped in her chest and her skin prickled as her eyes landed on a thick cord of s fell down in sudden, passionate awareness as she i on the sweet, hot blood that would run--

Oh, she was going to hell

Just then, her eyes landed on the red outline of a pals retracted Her heart stilled

A s away the scattered hair that covered his chest, raising an angry red welt It had healed smooth, but theat the scars that id--"

"I did that" She spread her hand and placed it over the burn "I burned you I hurt you"

"It’s nothing," he said in a hoarse voice He pressed his hand over hers and held it there She could feel the cal, Brigid A wound that has already healed Please, don’t--"

"I’id kneas telling the truth, but she still wondered, had every touch hurt hiasp tore froerprints on his neck where she’d clutched hirasp her chin as Carwyn forced her to meet his eyes