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“Perhaps I’d rather not catch a chill But if you’re reading est you stop there At the moment, my mind is no fit place for a lady” Even in the dark he could see that her cheeks flushed a berry red He did not have the ability to readto form a witty reply

“I’m no lady, Lachlan,” she said as they followed the path to the hunting lodge “I’ enchantress, remember, out to seduce men only to sink my teeth into their throats and drink their blood”

He sed deeply at the thought of her war his neck “Well, I have plenty to spare” He opened the wooden gate leading to the property, watched the seductive sway of her hips as she walked towards the front door

Ewan Carrick and Alistair Maclean had spent h they both enjoyed the thrill of hunting, the opportunity to drink and retell their wild stories proved to be athered from his father’s jovial tales

He followed Isla into the porch, watched her wiggle a sers down behind it to retrieve the key After replacing the stone, she brushed the dust fro iron object

“Dare you enter the witch’s lair?” The excited twinkle in her eye caused a sudden bolt of desire to shoot through hi with her “What if I should use my newly discovered ability to cos?”

“Trust an with a hint of a The catalogue of wicked things I wish to do to you is endless”

He expected her to blush again, but she surprised hiently on theand just as wicked”

Lachlan sed deeply as she stepped away and turned to open the door Good Lord, he had never felt so consu coupled with the sudden flurry of excitement resulted in a rather premature reaction?

He shook his head to banish the thought and followed her inside

Isla stopped in the gloomy hallway and handed him the key “Lock the door behind you I’ll not feel comfortable until we have checked all the rooms No one has been here for years” She nodded to a door at the end of the corridor “Shall I start with the kitchen?”

Squinting in an atteh the open doors leading off the hall Cobwebs glistened where shafts of h thepanes The air s and scurrying sounds of a rodent or two

But despite the gri would dampen his ardour

He reached for Isla’s hand and pulled her round to face him “There’s no need to check the rooms There’s no one here other than a family of er, he touched her lips and traced their luscious outline They were soft and full He could not resist the urge to probe a fraction de

eper, to where the inside of her lip ar to fear I’ll protect you as I always promised I would”