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“Yes, sir Will there be anything else? A new slip, petticoat or underskirt?”

He grinned, thinking of his return to the hotel “Yes, all the under things needed to make a complete new outfit”

Ten e in his arms, she said, “I can help you carry this to the hotel, Major”

“No, I’ve got it,” he insisted, as she set the last packet on top of the pile and he held it in place with his chin “But could you get the door for me?”

“Certainly,” the shopkeeper replied

Mr Brewster ca past the frontThe man also opened the door to the room upstairs, and shut it as Seth cautiously tiptoed to the bed

Careful to keep the crinkling paper fro down and then ht onto the mattress A part of him hated to wake her, yet there wasn’t much time before they’d have to board the train

He s it behind one ear as she lay on her side, and then he kissed the cheek he’d just uncovered Her sleepy, sweet ain

She rolled then, onto her back, and blinked several times

“Good ,” he whispered

Stretching one ar,” as a wistful smile appeared on her lips

He captured her wrist, kept the ar when encountering the edge of the blanket laid across her breastbone “We have to leave soon,” he said, though the desire to crawl under the covers beside her had his blood ticking in his veins

“Oh,” she said, popping open her eyes She grasped the blanket with the hand he let loose and then scooted to sit up “You should have—” The crackle of paper had her gaze going to the other side of the bed “What’s all that?”

“That,” he said, touching the end of her nose with a fingertip, “is a present I bought you”

The tenderness of her sweet sigh floated around his heart S as she shook her head, she asked, “All that is one present?”

He nodded