“I doonae understand what half of that meant, but traditions here trump everything, and if ye are going to be my wife, then ye have to follow Hilda’s lead,” he said gruffly. “Perhaps ye will learn to like it.” I seriously doubted it. “Why didn’t you wake me up this morning?” “I did not want to wake ye up. Ye are rather unpleasant in the morning.” He chuckled as I smacked him in the arm, but I was a little disappointed. We both knew that wasn’t the reason that he didn’t wake me up. Did he regret the night we spent together? He was the one who had initiated it. “I guess that I’ll go catch up with Hilda and learn dining etiquette,” I muttered as I turned away. I waited for him to stop me and tell me something. Maybe that everything was going to be okay or that he couldn’t wait for me to b

