“She was so perfect,” I sighed, taking another sip of wine as Linda listened, sympathy softening her features. “I wanted to run away with her right then and there.”
“It’s a good thing you didn’t,” she replied, sitting beside me on her porch, the two of us sharing a cocktail in the late afternoon sun, still trying to process everything that had happened today. “Spending time with her was already dangerous enough. If you’d taken her, Killian would have hunted you down to the ends of the earth.”
“I’m going to have to find a way to bring her back eventually. She belongs with me… and her brothers,” I murmured, completely overwhelmed by the whirlwind of emotions these last few days had stirred.
“We’ll figure something out,” Linda reassured me. “But for now, we should be thankful he hasn’t rea
