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She reached her hand across the small table and took hold of his, hugging it tightly. “You are my best friend. I will never forget the day you told me that you were my friend. I believe that day is when you stole my heart, and I gave you my trust. You brought me to a safe haven once before. Have you any suggestions where I would be safe now.”
He could play this safe and not tell her his idea, or he could—he stood abruptly, his chair tumbling backward. He walked over to her and swept her out of the chair and into his arms.
“Here is where you are safe. Here in my arms. Here with me, always.” His mouth grabbed hold of hers, and they kissed like starving lovers, though just an hour ago they had lingered in bed making love.
Reeve wasn’t surprised by the intensity of the kiss. It only proved that their love and need for each other was as powerful as her father’s desire to find them.
He nibbled along her lower lip, reluctantly bringing their kiss to an end, and holding firm to her arms, he took a step away from her. “Together we can conquer anything.”
“What are you suggesting?” she asked.
He heard the apprehension in her voice, but also the courage.
A pounding at the door interrupted any response, and they both eyed each other skeptically.
Was that fate knocking?
He wrapped his arm around her waist, tucking her against him. “Whatever awaits us beyond that door, we face together.”
She nodded, her arm slipping around his waist.
“Enter,” he called out.
Odran walked in and wasted no time in delivering the news. “One of our men has returned with a message.” He looked to Reeve. “Your father requests that you both return home. He says it is imperative that you do so.”
“Trouble brews?” Reeve asked.
“King Kenneth has sent a cleric to have Tara wed to him by proxy. Following the vows, his soldiers will escort her home. Carnoth agrees with the king’s plan, and there is little your father can do about it unless he wishes to go to war now with the king.”
“I will never reach the king’s home,” Tara said. “He will see me dead first.”
“That will not happen,” he assured her.
“How can you stop the king?”
He rested his brow on hers. “We’ll do it together.”
She shook her head, and Reeve, with a kiss, stopped any protests that would spill from her lips.
“We’ll escort you home,” Odran said.
“Your help is appreciated,” Reeve said.
“Bliss warned us it would be necessary. We leave soon, so that we can reach shelter before nightfall.” With that, Odran was gone.
“What will we do?” Tara asked anxiously.
“You will marry me,” he said bluntly.
Her eyes rounded in fright and turned deep purple. “I cannot do that.”
“You have no choice,” he said adamantly.
“But I do. I must.”
“Do you love me?’
“Of course I do,” she said, as if angry that he needed to ask.
