“Yea. Even after Selig was born and I knew such pride and joy in him, I was still depressed because of you, wanting to go to you all those months, yet afraid you would reject me. I can see why Perrin would not have wanted to approach me on the matter.”
“So you would put the blame on me, eh?”
“Youwereoverly stubborn, wench!”
Brenna smiled and kissed him lightly, teasingly. “I suppose I will always be. But you love me anyway.”
“Do I?”
“Garrick!”
He laughed and rolled on top of her. “Never doubt it, Brenna. Never. You are mine now, whether you admit it or not.”
“Oh, I admit it—gladly.”
The balcony doors were open to let in the light of the midnight sun. Its orange rays cast a soft glow on the couple entwined on the bed. They were wed four weeks now. The pagan ceremony had been beautiful, but Brenna still wanted God’s blessing, and was determined to have a Christian ceremony one day.
Brenna no longer had thoughts of returning to the land of her youth. This was her home now, here with her husband and son. The boy she had once tried to be was dead. She was a woman now, complete.
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Kimberly MacGregor waved the letter in her hand to gain her husband’s attention as he entered her sitting room. “Megan has written again,” she told him. “She has invitations piling up, too many as usual, but in this case that’s ideal. Let her pick and choose the best ones. She’s sounding really excited about this. Want to read the letter?”
“Nay.”
That answer was too abrupt and a bit disgruntled-sounding for a man of Lachlan MacGregor’s easy temperament.
“You aren’t having second thoughts about letting Melissa go to London, are you?”
“Aye.”
“Lachlan!”
His disgruntled tone was now accompanied by a matching look. “I dinna like asking the Duke and Duchess o’ Wrothston for favors.”
Kimberly relaxed. She should have known. Lachlan might get along famously with Devlin St. James when he and his wife Megan came to visit them at Kregora Castle, or vice versa, but it wasn’t always that way. They had in fact met under bizarre circumstances which didn’t account for Lachlan’s remark about favors.
“This was Megan’s idea, so there’s no favor involved,” she reminded him. “As soon as she heard that all of Melissa’s beaux were being frightened off by my over-protective brothers, she suggested Meli come to England where the MacFearsons are unknown. You agreed it was a good idea. I agreed it was an excellent idea. And Meli is looking forward to it. So don’t be having second thoughts now.”
“I assumed she’d be staying at Wrothston, as we do when we visit them in England, no’ in London town,” he grumbled. “The lass has been tae Wrothston enough tae be comfortable and feel right at home. London’s no’ the same, and she’ll be nervous enough—”
“Nervous?” Kimberly interrupted. “Our daughter is excited about this trip, she’s not the least bit nervous. If anyone’s nervous it’s you, and you and I aren’t even going until later in the summer. Is that it, then? You’re letting your worry for her override your better judgment?”
“Nay, I just dinna want her feeling she has tae find a husband afore she comes home. That’s tae much pressure tae be putting on her at her young age. You have assured her—?”
“Yes, yes, I’ve assured her she can be an old maid if she’d like.”
“Och, this isna funny, Kimber.”
