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He stilled a moment, peering down at her. “What I did not expect was to get punched in the jaw.”
“Oh, yes, that was it. And to have your dagger stolen.”
He rolled his hips again. “I admit, that was a surprise. Particularly when you did it a second time.”
“I was angry.”
“I noticed.” He set a hand on her hip and held her firmly as he sank in with harder, more urgent thrusts.
Her breath came faster. She tipped her head back, pressing it into the mattress, and looked up into his eyes. “What will Elizabeth say?”
“Who?” His gaze was fixed between their legs, on their union.
She tipped his face up to look at her. “The Queen of England?”
His ice-blue eyes burned into hers. “Katy, there is always a way,” he said, ignoring her stated question, and answering the deeper one. The truer one. It was his way. “I swear to you.” He surged into her again, strumming her like an instrument, making her burn.
“I believe in you,” she whispered.
“I burn in you.”
Their mouths met, in a long, deep kiss of adoration.
This, this with Aodh, this was her home. Their lives, their union, their children. It was home.
She was finally home. In Aodh.
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Claiming Her part of the Renegades and Outlaws collection,
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Pronouncing Aodh’s name
It’s affected by dialect & has changed over time, but let’s keep things simple, and say it can be pronounced:
Ae, Aí, Eh, Ee, or Ay
Simple, right?
In my mind, I hear it as ‘ay’ with the faintest emphasis of a ‘d’ on the end, as you would say the beginning of ‘Aidan.’
In Irish Gaelic, Aodh means ‘fire,’ from the element ‘aed,’ i.e. fire. Many Irish kings have held the name over the centuries; it is a royal name.
