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“Absolutely Anytime Nohat do you need?”

She stepped back fro “I need to check on Alastair at the clinic I’m worried about him Can you spare someone to take me into town?”

She knew better than to take a snowh alert after the attack and watching the women like hawks Lake would be the worst Years of experience had taught her that sometimes it was best to humour his overprotective streak It made him happy

Lake cocked an eyebrow at Mitch, as leaning against the breakfast bar, nursing aof coffee It was clear fro over the night before His usual suit was replaced by faded jeans and a crinkled grey T-shirt His hair was atoo hard about so

“You ever ridden a snowmobile?” Lake said

Dark thoughts cleared from Mitch’s face and his eyes lit up “How hard can it be?”

Lake nodded to Rainne “Give her a lift to the clinic and back, will you?”

“My pleasure” Mitch put hison the counter “Meet you outside” He practically ran fron of the troubled man he’d been a moment earlier had disappeared

Rainne shook her head as she watched hio “Boys,” she said

They followed Mitch down the hall and out the front door He rapped up against the cold and stroking the snowmobile like it was a cat

“Let’s go,” he said to Rainne

Rainne ran down the front steps of the castle, careful not to slip on the snow, and climbed onto the machine behind Mitch

“Oh,” Lake called after the every tenshe needs to be here”

“Darumbled “I knew there was a catch”

Lake was still grinning when he went back inside the castle