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just as quickly lowered his head, because the question she asked was unexpected. He stood and walked to the far corner of the room, leaving his back to her so that she couldn’t see the shame of what he had done to do to survive on his face. She got up and walked over to him. She reached out as if to touch him, then pulled her hand back, but her heart spoke louder than her fear and she slowly wrapped her arms around his waist, lying her body up against his back.
    “None of this is your fault, Danny. I was there that night, remember?” she said. “I’ve missed you so much.”
    He placed his hand gently on top of hers and let out a breath as if he had been holding it for an eternity. He kept hold of her hand and turned in her arms. “An Ah hae missed ye like the loch wud miss the glen.” He bent down and the two kissed a simple brush of lips that quickly turned into a maddening embrace of long lost lovers. D`nae couldn’t hold her emotions and burst out crying, sliding her mouth from his as her body started sliding back to the floor. That was probably the first hard cry she’d had since she thought he was dead.
    “Nae luv, please dinnae cry,” he said, taking her into his arms.
    “I came all this way to tell you goodbye. If I had only known you were here.”
    “But ye knows noo.”
    “I’m so sorry, Danny, I should have come sooner.”
    “D`nae,” he said pushing her back enough to see her face. “Yer here noo, that’s aw that be’s matterin tae me.”
    “How are we going to do this? I mean, you’re a… and I’m…” She started sobbing all over again, which made Danny start chuckling. “Well, I’m serious. I think we have a little problem,” she hiccupped.
    “Ye be me same precious wee lassie. Yer looks hae changed a bit, but nae me, Hen,” he laughed. “Fit did ye dae tae ye hair?”
    “Are you kidding? You want to know about my hair with everything else going on? I guess I can say you’re the same ole Scot I fell in love with,” she said, giving him the first smile he’d seen since that fateful night. “I stop putting color in it. I pretty much stop caring about everything when… well, you know when.”
    The two walked back over in front of the fireplace and sat down on the rug. Danny reached up and moved a piece of hair that was lying across D`nae’s cheek. She closed her eyes and laid her head into his hand, turning her face enough to kiss his palm. She put one hand on each of his knees and leaned into his body until her lips were right next to his ear.
    “Do you still want me, Danny Gilmore?” she asked softly.
    “Are ye nae afraid o me?”
    “I’m afraid I’m going to wake up and this is going to be another bad dream. Just because you have whiter skin and a few new teeth, doesn’t change the fact that I have never once stopped loving you,” she responded and pulled a chain out from around her neck. “Do you remember giving me this?”
    “Sae yer sayin, ye hae ne’er taken another?” he asked looking down at his grandmother’s ring.
    “That’s exactly what I’m saying.”
    He took her face in both of his hands and kissed her full out, lying her back onto the rug as he did so. His lips never left hers as he ripped the front of her shirt open. He broke his embrace and made his was down her neck and onto her breast. She pulled at her sleeves to free herself from the remaining cloth, while Danny worked his way further down. It wasn’t until he opened his eyes to look up at her that he saw the scars that his lips had somehow missed.
    His actions slowed as he reached up to trace the scar closest to him, the one that lay across her side. When she saw what he was doing, she grabbed her shirt and tried to cover herself, but he tore it from her hands and threw it across the room.
    “What in aw the heavens hae happen tae ye, luv?”
    “It happened that same night. I should have told you before you saw it this way,” she said, still trying to cover herself with her arms.
    “Ah