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"Shh…" Chase smiled down into her face. "It is all right now. It is over…"
"No…" Katherine got to her feet and looked down at him. "It is not over…"
Chase shifted, and stared at her. "What do you mean…?"
"There's more…"
"Okay, go on…tell me…" he encouraged.
"He told me a story. Another story, I could not believe, and yet…I could." Katherine paced back and forth as though putting the puzzle together herself for the first time. "He said long ago, when my father and mother came out to Missouri, they were attacked by Indians, Shawnee Indians."
Chase's face changed to one of concern now.
She glanced down at him then went on, "He said…my mother was captured by the Shawnee and taken away. And that my father searched for her for several weeks. Eventually he caught up to the tribe and he snuck in and found my mother, in a chief's tent. He tried to smuggle her out of the camp, but she didn't want to go. The reason she didn't want to go…"
Katherine stared down into Chase's face now, "Is because the chief had…taken her."
Chase stood up and came towards her.
But Katherine put out her hands, took his, and she looked at them both. She spread her hands against his and saw the color was the same.
"My father…was….that chief…" she uttered the words aloud, as tears fell down her cheeks. "Can it be truth? I look at you and I look at me, and I see little difference."
"Katherine…"
"You knew…." She gasped. "You knew about me before you came, didn't you?"
"Yes…" Chase answered, gathering her hands in his and kissing them. "I was sent by my tribe to bring you back…Katherine…to your people."
She turned away from him. "How could I not know?"
He came to hold her against him. "Out here…many things happen. You and I…we are the result…."
"But how could I not know all those years…?" She cried and turned to look at him.
"How could you know…?" Chase offered.
Tears fell, and as Chase tried to comfort her, she turned away from him. Until he pulled her into the circle of his arms, and kissed her gently. His hands went around her, cupping her breast, and his fingers pressed gently against them, until they were hard nubs. She moaned aloud, and almost sighed into his arms. His lips sought hers hungrily, greedily, as though he already knew them and had every right to claim her. His hands roamed freely over her as though making sure she was all there. His touch was gentle and inviting and for a second Katherine responded in kind, but when his hands reached to pull her hips up against his she jerked free.
She touched her lips that he had swollen with his kisses. "We have been together…in my dreams."
"Yes…" Chase agreed trying to gather her again into his arms, but she pulled away.
"Known each other…?"
"Yes…my sweet…"
She shook her head. "Those were dreams, not reality."
"Perhaps, but we were brought together by one much more powerful than you or I, Katherine. It is right that we are together," Chase assured her.
Katherine faced him now, looking at every inch of him and blushing to her toes.
"You are not my husband and I do not know you…," she said as tears streamed down her face.
"Katherine…." He called but she walked away from him and didn't look back.
"You are mine, Katherine, you will always be mine…" he whispered the words, and wondered why Wos-so mon-nit-to or the Great White God had not blessed this moment of truth.
