He put a finger to her lips. “I’m just telling you how I feel. Now that you spent the night in my bed, it will never be the same again. I will always think of you as I lie there cold and alone.”
“Ye’re impossible.” But she said it with affection, amazed at how much they thought alike. Just before he arrived, she’d been thinking the same thing.
“And you’re stubborn.”
“Well, ye’re here now, and that’s all that matters.”
“I’ll take what you’re willing to give me.”
It wasn’t right that she was making him live off bits and pieces when he wanted the whole thing. But she was still so frightened.
Frightened of change. Frightened of caring. Frightened of losing yet another person she loved.
He kissed her, drawing her to his lips with a gentle nudge of his hand on the back of her head, and she let her heavy thoughts drift away for the moment.
A sharp knock on the door had her jumping off his lap as if she’d been caught doing something wrong.
With a curse, Iain stood and reached for the pistol in his boot.
Chapter 28
“Mary and Joseph, Campbell! Ye’ll kill someone waving that pistol around,” Sutherland shouted as Iain yanked the door open and shoved his pistol in the man’s face.
Cait covered her mouth to hide her smile but was instantly relieved that it was only Sutherland and not Donaldson banging on her door.
Iain growled a curse and shoved his pistol back in his boot. “What are you doing here, Sutherland? Or need I ask?”
Sutherland looked between Iain and Cait and wisely kept his thoughts to himself. “I wouldn’t ask unless it was dire.”
“Of course,” she said.
“No,” Iain said at the same time.
Cait placed her hand on Iain’s arm. “Iain.”
“Cait,” he said in warning.
“What do ye need?” Cait asked Sutherland.
Iain made a disgusted noise and walked away.
“Ye need help,” she said, drawing Sutherland’s attention back to her.
“Aye.”
“When?”
“They’re hidden down the road.”
“Then bring them in.”
“A warm house and safety are all they ask for.”
“Of course I’ll feed them, too.”
“For the love of God,” Iain exploded from the kitchen. “You can’t keep putting her in danger, Sutherland.”
“If I thought she was in danger, I would no’ be doing this.”
