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Duncan pulled out a chair and forced her into it. He had both hands on her shoulders and looked down at her stunned features.
“Do you know who—” he stopped as he registered the name.
Anne had only said his first name last night, but now he questioned her reaction to seeing Grady’s contract. How is it possible that he has come to Ballinderry? And for what purpose?
Anne reached across the table and pulled the contract towards her. It felt hot in her hand. She swallowed hard and stared at the seal on the bottom. How could he be alive? She searched for him. They were to be married. Perhaps it wasn’t her Stephen Grady. Surely there was more than one. Maybe she was mistaken about the writing scrawled on the parchment. The last time she saw him was inland, among the mountains, and five yea
