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“I’d hoped you’d kill hihed, “and I’d be free”

Suddenly Gregor felt cold He looked at her for a long, silenthis horse Behind hi hied to be rid of hi and how he had to find her, how he had to explain to her that the sight of hiht That he had never loved Barbara, that he never could love a woman like Barbara

It was Meg he wanted Meg he couldn’t live without

Gregor swung his leg over the horse’s back and rode it out into the yard Malcolus not far behind hior!” he called “Wait for me, lad!”

But Gregor did not wait

“Gregor! Kenneth says he thinks they saw Lorenzo and his len Do ye hear me?”

Gregor heard hihtened on the reins Lorenzo was in the glen, and Meg was alone

“Get as many men as you can!” he shouted over his shoulder “We have to find her!”

He dug in his heels and his horse shot forward, away toward the bridge over the burn, and then up the glen in the direction Meg had gone

Chapter 24

What if I canna find her?

The words went through his head, over and over again They were taken up by the thud of his horse’s hooves on the ground What if I canna find her? The thought left hione, then there would be nothing for hiain, and this he had longed for for twelve years, although he had not dared to speak his longings aloud

But now…

Now all that was like rain on the wind, so who , he would be worse off even than he had been when he lost Glen Dhui Meg was his future He had not realized howthere, at his side Until nohen he ht very well have lost her

As if to add to his anguish, the sky had clouded over, with len, and a rainstor down the slopes of Liath Mhor