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it this instant. I am married, and very happily so,” she stressed. “Furthermore, I can almost guarantee you won’t be staying at Sherring Cross as you’d planned. And besides, I could have sworn Margaret said you were in the market for a wife.”
    The look he gave Megan said clearly that he’d found the only wife he could ever want. It caused the duchess to blush. Kimberly, seeing that look, was annoyed for some reason, although it was no business of hers. She tried clearing her throat as a reminder that there was a witness to this very personal conversation that she definitely wanted to end, but she still went unnoticed.
    “Whether I stay here or near here, I’ll be pursuing my heart’s desire. I’d be a fool not tae.”
    “You’d be a fool if you do,” Megan replied, then added with a sigh, “Dense, that’s what you are,” and a shake of her head, as if she simply couldn’t understand it. “Just as dense as you were a year ago, when I told you I was spoken for, but you refused to listen.”
    “Determined,” he corrected with still another grin. “And what’s one wee husband matter when two hearts were meant for each other?”
    At that, Megan rolled her eyes. Kimberly, getting more annoyed by the moment, cleared her throat again, much louder. This time Megan heard her and glanced her way, though her look was totally confused for a moment, as if she couldn’t for the life of her remember who Kimberly was or what she was doing there.
    And then it must have dawned on her, because she gasped. “Oh, my dear Lady Kimberly! Please forgive me for my distraction. You must be exhausted from your journey, and here I’ve keptyou standing there while dealing with this incorrigible Scot—” She paused to give Lachlan a reproving glare, which placed the entire blame where it belonged, at least in her opinion. Then to Kimberly again, she made a sincere apology: “I’m so sorry. Come along and I’ll show you to the room that has been chosen for you, and we’ll see to that cold you’ve caught as well. As it happens, I know that Duchy, Devlin’s grandmother, has some wonderful remedies—”
    Lachlan interrupted at that point, as Megan started to lead a relieved Kimberly away. “Ah, darlin’, don’t be leaving me yet. “Tis been way tae long since I’ve basked in your glorious sunshine.”
    Megan snorted beneath her breath, loud enough for only Kimberly to hear. She continued to lead Kimberly away for a moment, but must have thought better of it.
    She paused to swing around, frowning sternly, and hissed at Lachlan, “I have a guest to see to who is welcome here, whereas you are not. Have one of the servants fetch Margaret for you, and see that you inform her of your previous involvement with Devlin. She’ll tell you herself that you have to change your plans, I have no doubt, for that dear lady couldn’t have been aware of your nefarious activities. She never would have knowingly invited a thief into our home.”
    “Reaver, darlin’,” he corrected with a pained expression. “Kindly make the distinction.”
    Megan sighed in exasperation before she replied, “There is no distinction, MacGregor, not when it was Englishmen you were robbing. You Scots might see it so, but we English certainly don’t.”
    “Ah, but ’tis a moot point, since my reavingdays are behind me now,” he assured her. “I canna undo what was done wi’ good reason afore now, yet you’ll give me credit for turning o’er a new leaf.”
    “Will I? Not likely. And we’ve discussed it long enough. Good day.”
    Kimberly was witness to his chagrined look just before she was led off, then the determined look that followed. He apparently was a man who refused to accept defeat easily, yet in the case of acquiring Megan St. James’s affections he was bound for failure. All of England knew that the Duke and Duchess of Wrothston were madly in love with each other. That news had come to the far reaches of Northumberland, but