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Well, she wasn’t
I crop and headed out the door, followed by aat the bottoainst his boots He looked up as she caen felt a rush of pleasure He ht not have the deliciousness of his brother, but Rafe was quite wonderful, in his oay Especially noasn’t drinking
So she tucked her arm into his and smiled up at hi back, "I know you want so What is it?"
"Will you come with me over there?" She waved her hand
"Over there?"
"Over… to Draven’s house Maitland House"
Rafe stopped and looked down at her, those beautiful shadowed eyes of his looking straight into her soul "Are you sure you wish to?"
"Quite sure," she said, her voice coiven her courage Cheered her frorief of the past year "I know that Lady Clarice would want her jewelry sent to various relatives," she said "She only left the briefest of wills, you know, because she was so weak toward the end She asked s to the wo a year"
Rafe touched her cheek for a hter-in-law"
Ien’s smile wavered "She wanted Miss Pythian-Adams to marry Draven because she would have kept Draven from the racetrack I didn’t succeed at that"
"It’s not that you couldn’t have, Ien You never chose to, did you?"
Her eyes searched his dark gray ones "I should have"
"He was a man, and he lived as he wished to live If I
hadn’t wished to quit drinking, Iht have driven "
She s
Posy and Rafe’s horse were tied up in the yard, nuzzling each other
"They’re the best of friends," Rafe told her "I’m too heavy for Posy, but I had her taken out every day while you were in Scotland And meanwhile, she and Hades had stalls next to each other"
"Coen said Posy nickered and strained toward her and then she was cupping her dear, heavy nose in her hands and laughing as Posy blehiskery, grass-so," Rafe said
His hands came around her waist from behind and he threw her up on the horse It was odd how sien felt as if she knew those large hands froht before, when Gabriel pulled her frohed noat?" Rafe asked, as they began walking down the road leading to the west
"A randoen said "So do you think that I should sell thethere, after all"
"Would you ever wish to live there?"
"No"
"Are you absolutely sure?"
"Without question," Ien said "Look at that field, Rafe Isn’t it beautiful?"