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quiet, his bearing commanding even without speaking a single word. Without meaning to, he drew everyone’s gaze.  
    She swallowed hard when he came to stand beside her in the great hall, his hand brushing hers. A spark zipped through her, primal and...erotic.  
    Then he looked at her.
    His blue eyes were intense as they searched hers. Chills still raced over her skin from when he had traced her eyebrow. She wanted to ask him if he knew she had done that to him countless times, but she didn’t have the nerve.
    “You must be hungry,” Alistair said. “We doona have much, but we’ll gladly share what we do have.”
    Innes felt lost when Daman’s gaze slid from her and moved to Alistair. He touched her brother’s arm to get his attention. Once Alistair turned to him, Daman pointed to a bow and a quiver of arrows propped near the hearth.
    Alistair frowned as he looked at the weapons then back at Daman. “You want to use them?”
    Daman nodded and then walked to the hearth. He slung the quiver over his head, settling the strap across his chest. He lifted the bow and tested it by pulling the string back and looking along the sights. He lowered the weapon and caught Innes’s gaze once again.
    Innes realized then why Daman was so quiet. “You can’t speak, can you?”
    Daman’s gaze briefly lowered to the ground before he shook his head.
    Alistair asked, “Have you always been mute?”
    Again Daman shook his head.
    Innes wasn’t sure she would be so calm if she woke after two hundred years without the ability to speak. Yet, Daman seemed entirely composed.  
    Daman pointed to Alistair and then the bow before he opened the castle door.
    “You want to hunt,” Alistair said, a slow grin forming.  
    Her brother hesitated, and Innes hurried to say, “I’ll be fine. Donald is locked away, and we’ll close the gates.”
    Alistair pulled on the end of her hair and strode away to get his bow and quiver. Innes looked back at Daman to find him watching her closely.
    She noticed the silver chain around his neck that disappeared beneath his saffron shirt. Her necklace. The thought of it touching his skin made her stomach flutter in excitement.
    If only she had been there when he woke. She would’ve had him all to herself for a time.  
    “We willna be far,” Alistair said, breaking into her thoughts.
    Innes jumped and jerked to her brother. “Of course. Be careful. Both of you,” she said and looked at Daman.
    Alistair exited the castle first. Daman hesitated before he gifted her with a smile and followed her brother. Innes walked to the doorway to watch them.
    Her brother barked orders to the men standing guard at the gatehouse and those along the battlements. Alistair spoke while Daman nodded or pointed to something. It continued for a bit at the gate before they walked beneath the gatehouse. Alistair turned right, and Daman turned left.  
    Innes’s heart jumped when Daman glanced back at her before disappearing beyond the gate. Only after the gate was closed and bolted did she shut the castle door and face the hall.

    ~ ~ ~

    Daman returned to the castle with a deer and four hares. He would’ve hunted longer, but he couldn’t shake the overwhelming need to get back to Innes.
    The black-haired beauty was an enigma. All those times she had visited him, spoke to him...touched him. Her caresses had heated his blood, singed his skin. With the barest of touches, she made him crave more.
    Now that he was awake, he wanted to yank her against him and taste her lips as he’d longed to do while he slept. She had no idea what her nearness did to him. She tied him in knots, and at the same time, she calmed a raging storm inside him that he hadn’t yet figured out.
    Right at the tip of his memory was the knowledge of something he was supposed to do, but every time he got close to figuring it out, it slipped further away.
    The castle gates opened and Daman discovered Innes there to greet him. Her eyes lit up at the sight of