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Shame flooded her

“Nay” She shook her head, trying to tell her body that it could not have what it wanted so desperately The desire did not come from her heart after all It came from an herb that she never should have touched “I must not That is—I should not ever…”

Sweet merciful heaven She could only blaressions No one had forced her into this ers lurked within her that they could override all sense so quickly?

Edging away froown to cover her breasts She would leave the keep at once Both to warn Morag of Finn’s arrival and to strangle the o a vile batch of herbs that had ht twice in one day

While she formulated the plan, her companion contemplated her in silence, his persuasive hands mercifully removed from her ard flesh

“You are a peculiar wo on the wall and turning fro e your mind—”

“I will not” Or, rather, she prayed she would not She lifted the hem of her skirt to extricate herself froeway “Your chamber is at the top of these stairs I’m sure you’ll understand if I ask you to make your oay from here”

She needed to escape the scent of him—the sood smoke of the hearth fire on his tunic and the berry-wine taste of his kiss

As the thunder ru rain ht be just what she needed to cool off

“Wait Look atthe harsh angles of his face His sea-blue eyes The mouth that had been so ined

She nored him and hastened to her own rooms, but how could she find her way in the dark? By the rood, she was not thinking properly at all, her witserratically