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Scotland

Winter Solstice, six months later

So that's hoe're tae play this, wife?" Bowen said, when her snowball beaned him squarely in the face He shook the snow froe a gled her gloved fingers at hi it on, Father Tiest snowball she'd ever seen She took off, darting back toward the lodge

Playing in the snohat an incredible way to end an already wonderful day They'd arrived in Scotland just this ettable - literally, with proper sedation And last night, just before Mari and Bowen had flown out, her parents had told her they were having a baby, which delighted her, though she pro -

Bowen'sher down She gasped, looking over her shoulder

"That's how you throw a snowball" Grinning, he took a bow, then loped after her

Bowen grinned a lot now And da with hi it to forty without having kids with her Lykae was nil

With a squeal, she let hied her down into the snoith him "Dinna hurt you, did I?" he asked as he eased her beneath hio, he still asked her that She thought he alould and loved him for it "Not at all"

"So you like it here?"

"Adore it"

"You're no' just saying that? Because I can - "

"I want to live half the year here" They'd stay the other six months in their place next to Andoain "If I'm needed by the coven or for a freelance job, I can co hard these last fewthe Andoain coven with her parents' help and selling spells on her own Did she hit it out of the park with each et referrals

"In addition to the apple orchard I had planted here over the suth h with you Since I'm your familiar"

He took the position of "protector of his witch" very seriously, going with her to all her jobs, and gruested he was ood to me"

"So what do you think about real snow?" He'd razzed her without cease because apparently, her diined snow had been like the stuff they used on movie sets

"It's beautiful"

"Aye, beautiful," he said with his gaze locked on her face "I kneould becoit with you - ht"