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“Oh, darling,” he said, kissing her lips lightly “You’ve always been Millie Your sister would never have traveled out here, not by train or wagon She’d never have befriended Briggs’s maidens, or Per-Cuain “But most of all, she’d never have become the perfect army wife”

Millie’s heart swelled, and all she could do hisper, “I love you”

“I know, and I love that about you, too,” he said, running both his hands down her back

“We could tell everyone Per-Cum-Ske traded your name for a new one”

That ”

“You did? From whom?”

His hands orking theirminiature fires wherever they touched, and it was a moment or more before she could answer “Mr Williams, the porter”

“I can’t believe ere on the saainst his “All those nights”

The feel of hiain “You’rehis chest with her chin It would be like this forever One look and she’d be racing up the stairs to the bedroom at the fort as fast as Per-Cum-Ske’s wives did to their tepees

“Oh, no,” she said, propping herself up on her elbows

“What?”

“Mrs Ketchus—”

“I reons in the ” He lifted her then, pulled her forward until her breasts ithin easy access of his lips

“Seth,” she groaned, the sensationsaboutto tell people”

“No,” he ”

She had to agree, but could barely nod, and then, within no tiot all about her name What mattered ho she was—the major’s wife

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