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One kiss to let herself pretend she was seventeen again. She swayed against Anthony as she opened both her lips and her soul to him.

“Catie.”

Slowly she opened her eyes, bewildered and bereft. What would make him stop now?

“Catie, look at me,” he said. “I do not know how it can be possible, and yet it must be so.”

He searched her face, and the first wisp of fear began to curl in Catie’s stomach. “Years ago, the night before I sailed for London, there was a girl I met in a tavern near the water.”

“You are mistaken, sir.” Catie jerked free, her heart pounding.

Relentlessly he followed. “A little serving girl afraid of her own shadow and still unaware of what her pretty face could do to a man.”

“No,” said Catie, her eyes wild as she backed away from him. “No.”

“Yes, Catie,” he said softly. “You are that lass.”