Page 88 of Love Me Forever
“—but do you have any feelings left for the duchess?”
He was quiet so long, she finally leaned up to look at him—and found him silently laughing. “You’re a silly lass sometimes, Kimber. You havena been worrying yourself wi’ that notion, have you?”
“Well, no, actually, but I used to.”
He shook his head. “Darlin’, even when I was telling the bonny Megan that I loved her, ’twas you I was thinking about, you that had already stolen my heart. She put it best herself. ’Twas no’ real, what I felt for her, when I didna even know her. And she was right. It wasna real, just an infatuation wi’ her beauty. But you, on the other hand, drive me tae distraction, I love you so much. Will you be admitting it now?”
“What?”
“That you’ll love me forever? I want more’n one lifetime wi’ you, darlin’. Forever may no’ even be long enough.”
She smiled at his whimsy. “On one condition—”
“Nay, unconditionally.”
She stared at him for a long moment before she allowed, “Oh, very well, but—”
“No buts, darlin’.”
“But—you have to promise I’ll be able to find you in this forever of yours. If I had to live even one lifetime without you—”
“Nay, never, Kimber,” he said emphatically. “You’ll always be by my side, and I by yours. And that’s the MacGregor telling you that.”
She laughed. That, of course, meant she could believe it would be so.
