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She picked up her basket and walked straight out the door Cian

wondered where his day had gone wrong He’d planned it all out He

had worked hard all week so he would be able to spend this afternoon

seducing his wife, and now he had to follow her into a goblin cave

where she intended to talk the their precious liquor

for sweetened oat cakes

He’d gone down the wrong road

Cian got off his stool and ran to catch up with his wife Her hips

swayed invitingly in her pretty skirt She turned and winked at him as

she walked down the lane He jogged the last distance between them

and slipped his hand into hers She was talking andwith a

sweet fe

Heroad, but it was the one she

had picked He would follow

Meg chattered happily with her husband as they walked through