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They were proper soldiers, well trained and well equipped It was a pity he could not have brought len had their good points, too They lived here in Glen Dhui, this was their hoht all the harder if the Duke of Abercauldy decided he wanted to take it from them

“Captain,” Malcolm Bain alerted him, and nodded his head in the direction of the house

Gregor’s gaze followed

She was there, watching hi the blue dress with the taffeta bon the front Sers itched to pull them apart, every one of them, and find as hidden beneath To unpin her hair and lay it about her To kiss her pink asped and wound her arms about his neck

He looked down at the ground, where the rass to mud He took a deep breath He told himself he was athered his thoughts, and put on his ain it had made no difference She was still there, and he still felt the same

“I received your e,” she told him coolly when she reached him “You wanted to see me, Captain?”

She didn’t like being sent for like a lackey He had not intended it so; he hadn’t thought of couching his request in aot to be polite

Gregor tried a sht it would be useful if you were here with me, to look over the men as they drill To shoe are in accord over the matter of the duke”

Meg raised an eyebrow “I see But I know nothing of weapons”

“That is not the point of the exercise, Meg”

She took a step forward, until she stood beside hiht and fresh, womanly scent, overlaid with the sweetness of her hair He could hear the rustle of her blue skirts, and beneath them, her petticoats He closed his eyes and wondered if he could send her away again withouther evenhimself look like a halfwit

“Captain?” Malcolm Bain stood before him, hair windblown, blue eyes narrowed Malcol rong “Do ye want ets, to see how good their aim is, but it would be best if we dinna waste too much of our ammunition”

Gregor pretended to look about hi “Verra well, Malcol and I atch”

Malcolm Bain nodded, pleased, and went off to do as he was told

The air ar, the scents of late surass and looking at the clouds, as he had as a boy It felt like hoh his veins He was home, and suddenly he felt more alive in this moment than he had in any of the past twelve years