Catherine glanced stealthily around the bend at the young serving girl toying enticingly with the broad-shouldered guard outside of the Highlander’s chamber door. She couldn’t help but smile as the young woman turned coyly, giving him the chance to draw her to him and squeeze her breasts in the act. The servant, in turn, responded by reaching back and running a teasing hand over the ties of his codpiece. Even from where she stood, Catherine could tell that the guard was ready to pin the young woman to the wall and take her right there. But she had paid the girl too well for her to mess up the future queen’s plans. Moving back into the shadows of the wall, Catherine watched as the young wench whispered something in the man’s ear before breaking away from him with a laugh.
“Though his guard
