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What kind of woman would run away when given the news of her impending marriage? Especially a marriage that would hold benefits for both families involved?

She shifted on the furs and mumbled some words in her sleep. Though he could blame some of her restlessness in sleep on her illness and fever, she never seemed to be at peace when she slept. She called out names, mostly just one, throughout the time when sleep claimed her.

Something was wrong here. Very wrong.

If she did not know him, or the Mackintoshes, then they could not be the reason for her refusal to accept the marriage. Yet she had done the unthinkable and left the safety and protection of her father’s keep to avoid it. Was it just maidenly fear or something more?

Though clearly fear was not something that seemed to rule her life if she was brave enough to do what she’d done …