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was a tasty treat ready to eat. Duncan kenned that Callam had been with Bertha tonight. Bertha had come to him at the evening meal, and he’d sent her away. He and Callam shared everything. Duncan wasn’t bothered if Callam slept with a woman Duncan had, and vice versa, but that was before Holly. Duncan hadn’t known Holly for long, but he knew from the moment he saw her, felt her, that she was his. Duncan wasn’t sharing her, and he needed to make sure his brother kenned. He and Callam were close, and before today, Duncan would have said there was nothing he wouldn’t give his brother to make him happy.
    Glaring at his brother, he tightened his hold on Holly, turned her and picked her up so her eyes were almost at the same level as his. “Why canna ye stay here, lass? Ye have a family now, me family. Ye belong here with me. Ye’re mine. This is the time ye should have been in. Ye’re me soul mate. Me woman.”
    He grinned when she growled. “Ahhh, you may be the hottest man I’ve ever met, but you’re the most frustrating. I’m not your woman. I’m not your anything . I’m not yours. I don’t belong to anyone. I barely know you. This is the second conversation I’ve had with you.”
    “Ye like how I look, do ye, lass?” He couldn’t help the wicked smile that spread over his face.
    “Grrr, didn’t you hear anything else I said?”
    Callam chuckled behind Holly. Duncan narrowed his eyes on his brother for a moment, nodded to her rectangle thing, and then he leaned into Holly, brushing his lips against hers. The moonlight shone behind Holly, illuminating her eyes as they widened. She tried to move away from him, but he wouldn’t let her have an inch. Her tongue came out, wetting her lips before slipping back in.
    “Ye do belong to someone, Holly…me.”
    Holly opened her mouth and started to speak, but he didn’t let her get anything out. This time he kissed her to show her what she was to him. He pulled her so her body was hard against his. Holly didn’t resist him and he preened at that. Her arms came up and around his neck, clinging to him.
    Duncan kissed her possessively, taking what was his and making sure she felt it. He knew his display would show his brother that Holly was not to share. He pulled away and muttered against her lips, “Mine.”
    Duncan looked behind him to see his brother holding Holly’s rectangle thing and studying him. When their eyes met, he nodded and walked toward the keep.
    “Mmm, what is it about you that turns me to mush? I have no willpower against you. No other man has ever had the effect you have on me. I haven’t even known you twenty-four hours, and you have me at your mercy, Duncan.” The way Holly said his name made his body tense with need.
    He wasn’t going to let Holly get away. The way he had felt since he met her proved that Holly was the one for him. Duncan had never been like this with a woman. He hated to admit it, but his mother had brought a girl he could, and would, marry.
    Unwrapping Holly’s arms from his neck, he lifted her and placed her on his horse, then got on behind her. They rode in silence for a moment as his mind started to go through everything that could have happened to her if he hadn’t found her. “Ye canna run. It is dangerous in this time. There are bandits, and we are feuding with other clans. They would nay hesitate to take ye.” He kept an easy pace back to the keep. “I ken ye wish to return to yer own time, but ye are here now. I won’t say I’m sorry ye’re here, because that would be a lie. And one thing I can promise ye is I won’t lie to ye. Ye need to at least give this life a try; otherwise, ye’re gunna spend the rest of yer life here miserable.”
    Holly sighed against him. “Okay, I’ll try. I’m sorry I got you out of bed.”
    Duncan kissed the top of her head. “I kenned from the moment I laid me eyes on ye, ye would be trouble. I had a feeling ye’d try something, so I told me guards to watch out