She was fast, but he was faster, slamming himself, full force against the door as she yanked it open, so it thudded shut.She ducked but he trapped her against the wall. Stupid, stupid, stupid, to have her with his body hard against hers and the stone wall and the breath tearing from him, his heart juddering. But the breath also tore through her. Finally. She flailed, she squirmed. What had he said really, to engender the reaction of sheer terror? Apart from the obvious? Keep her prisoner, threaten. All right, Traitor's Pole. But that was it. Any talk about the fact she was his wife and he could do what he liked with her, was just that. Talk. The old man who'd crawled into Lochalpin said she was Kara McGurkie.Why did she look like that, so once again he had this strong urge to protect her,
