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“Meg?” But Gregor had heard her sharp breath anddown into her face “What is it? What’s wrong?”

“I just thought of…I…” She bit her lip To feel such pain, and for aherself at the very thought of losing hior, without see did not want him to see that in her, she did not want hiainst her, just as all those other men had searched her smile and her conversation for a chink, a crevice, a way inside her So that they could strip her of all she owned—money, land, and self-respect

Meg would not let Gregor do that to her, no matter how much she craved his arued and autocratic Lady Meg

“’Tis nothing,” she said at last “I have not slept well, that is all”

Gregor searched her face a moment more and then he lapsed into a smile “Neither have I”

Meg only ed a faint smile in return “We will sleep better when this is all over,” she assured hi tone “After we are wed”

Gregor blinked at her, and then he laughed: a low, suggestive chuckle “Do ye think so, lassie?”

Meg felt her face fla, despite her oords being completely innocent It was there in the hot amber of his eyes, the tension in his broad shoulders and muscular body She could smell him, the s to, the memory of their last kiss flashed into her mind Heat—raw, sensuous heat—filled her Her body turned to fluid, her breasts ached, and the very air around her seemed to shimmer with need

She wanted him She wanted him so much that it honestly hurt

Abruptly Gregor had turned his head, reaze fro was filled with dizzy relief, in the moment before she heard the loud footsteps

Malcol his fair head back and forth, as if searching the rooood idea who that soht be

“Where is she? Where is Alison Forbes? Alison! Show yersel’”

Not again! Meg shook off her own concerns, and started toward the man, ready to intervene

But Gregor was before her “Malcol like this! This is no barracks, man!”

Malcolm’s eyes were as wild as his demeanour, but he lowered his voice and spoke with a raw intensity “I need to find her, Gregor I need to speak with her”