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Ma glances back and forth between me and Kate. "Should I make up both spare rooms?"
She's asking if Kate and I will sleep together.
Kate responds before I can. "I'd rather share with Callum, if you're okay with that."
"Of course, dearie. We're not that old-fashioned."
My mother bustles off to get my old room ready, and Da excuses himself a moment later to go help her. That leaves me alone with Kate under the stars.
I pat my thigh. "Come over here,mo leannan."
She settles onto my lap, resting her head on my shoulder. "Your dad called your mommo leannantoo. What does it mean?"
"My sweetheart."
"I know you called me darling too. Kirsty told me that's whatgràidhmeans."
"Aye. You are my darling and my sweetheart. Does that fash you?"
"Maybe it would've bothered me a few days ago, but not anymore. I like it when you call me sweet things in Gaelic."
I brush my fingers through her hair, gazing into her eyes. "Glad ye like it. It feels good to say those words to you. Feels right."
"Yeah, it does." She wags a finger at me. "But don't go thinking that means I want to make a passel of 'bairns' tonight."
"Tomorrow night, then."
She bends her head to whisper in my ear, "I hope you have condoms."
I choke on my own saliva. "Ye want to shag in my parents' house? Thought you were too jeeked to stay awake."
"Sitting on your lap woke me up. Being close to you always makes me so horny."
"Well…" I thrust a hand into her hair, pulling her face closer to mine. "In that case, aye. I've got condoms in my pocket."
She jumps off my lap. "Hurry up, then. It's bedtime."
Chapter Twenty-Five
Kate
We rush into the house but slow down once we're inside. Don't want his parents to think we're so hot for each other that we can't wait one more second. Alistair and Greer are just walking out of a bedroom. Greer kisses my cheek and wishes us both goodnight, then Alistair slaps his son's arm and tells us to "sleep well." He winks when he says that, so I think his mom and dad realize we plan to have sex. They clearly don't care. I wouldn't be surprised if they have their fingers crossed that Callum and I will make a "bairn" tonight.
Oh no, it's way too soon for that. Good thing we've got condoms.
Callum shuts the door behind us.
I flop onto the bed. "Was this your room?"
"When I was a laddie, aye. Slept here until I went away to university."
Pushing up on my elbows, I regard him for a moment. "Where did you go to college?"
"University of Dundee. That's on the east coast of Scotland."
"Wow. That's far from your home." I swing my legs off the bed, letting them dangle because this bed is very tall. "I went to Michigan State University. That wasn't too far from Toledo, where I grew up. Must've been hard for you to be so far from your family, considering how tight you all are."
"It was hard. But I adjusted." He sits on the bed beside me. "These days, I'd rather be here in the Highlands, close to my large and often annoying extended family."
