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“And you did not pull away from John’s.”
She frowned. “Well, it was not as if I had asked to meet you there and then kissed John in front of you! Besides, there was nothing decided between us then.”
“Ye ken well that I did not write the letter! It was Brea, creating a plan tae ruin us!” Liam’s arms fells to his sides as his face grew earnest in his explanation. Both of them were breathing hard as they tried to defend their arguments. “What are ye doing here, lass? Come simply tae tell John that he is ousted from yer affections? Am I next on the list, then?”
Elizabeth was incensed. Here was the man who held her heart in his grasp, who she wanted to tell how desperately she loved him. She had come all that way and given up her future so that she could be with him. And he was trying to fight her! He still thought that she cared not for him!
“You are insufferable!” she yelled, lifting her arms to the sky. “Are you really as thick-headed as all that? I could have sent only the letter to tell John there would be no engagement. Why do you think I have come all the way from England after my father’s death and sailed to Mull?”
“Why?” he asked, his eyes daring her to say it.
Elizabeth huffed. She wanted to punish him, turn around right then, and sail back to England to forget about him, but she could not. Putting her hands on her hips, she said, “Because I love you, and I would have said yes to marry you if you bloody—”
In a flash, Liam’s lips were on hers, and his hands were curled tightly around her waist. She wrapped her arms about his neck, and he lifted her into the air as they tasted one another, kissing as if they had been separated for much longer than a few weeks. He let her down, and when she found her feet again, she was dizzy with love and desire.
He moved his hands to her face and smiled down at her. “I love ye too, lass. I was only teasing.”
Elizabeth gasped again and tried to punch his bare chest, but he only laughed and kissed her again. After a few silent moments, he said, “So ye will marry me, Elizabeth?”
She sighed in complete contentment, but she smirked, a wicked gleam in her eye. “I suppose I have to. I have come all this way after all, and you are the only other Highlander about.”
“Minx.” Laughing, Liam picked her up and carried her up to Duart to share the good news.
“I think I just heard ye swear, Lady Darling. How uncouth.”
Elizabeth laughed loudly. “It is the effect of the Scots, I am afraid.” With her face up to Liam’s and beyond him the bright blue of the sky, she had never known that happiness could be so complete.
