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“The danger wasn鈥檛 over.
Rolling her around so that she floated on her back, he swam her to shore. A much easier proposition than on the way out. Reaching the safety of the beach, he lifted her in his arms, wrenching her from the steel jaws of the sea that had tried to claim her.
He carried her a few feet up the beach and set her down carefully, kneeling beside her.
鈥淔lora.鈥� He shook her shoulders gently. 鈥淲ake up.鈥�
She looked so still. So horribly still. 鈥淔lora.鈥� He shook her gently, his chest squeezing painfully.
鈥淧lease wake up. I need you to wake up.鈥� I need you.
Her eyes fluttered again and then鈥攂lissfully鈥攐pened. And he found himself looking into the achingly
familiar fathomless depths. He felt a rush of relief so strong, he could have wept. Instead he kissed her.
He knew there wasn鈥檛 time, that he had to get her back, but he couldn鈥檛 help it. He needed to know that she was alive.
His mouth covered hers in a searing kiss, as if he could warm the cold from her lips with the heat of his passion. He kissed her with a raw desperation born of fear. With all the intensity of the emotions she鈥檇 exposed inside him. He told her with his lips what he couldn鈥檛 admit to himself.
In that one brief instant, he told her so much.”
― Monica McCarty, Highlander Unchained

“Taking Flora to his room, rather than any other, amounted to a public declaration of his intentions. She was his, and he was saying as much.
Lachlan didn鈥檛 give a damn what anyone thought, he wanted her with him. It was as simple as that.”
― Monica McCarty, Highlander Unchained

“You are too kind.鈥� Her voice dripped with sarcasm. 鈥淏ut what has marriage to offer me that I don鈥檛 already have?鈥�
There were many ways to answer that question, but having care for her innocence, Lachlan refrained from the blunt one. One glance at that beautiful face and lush body, and he need look no further for a reason why the lass should be wed: swiving. And lots of it.”
― Monica McCarty, Highlander Unchained

“The Laird of Coll was undoubtedly a hard man. He didn鈥檛 smile often, but when he did, it was as if the sun broke through the clouds. And he was smiling right now as she considered his question, knowing very well that she was enjoying herself.”
― Monica McCarty, Highlander Unchained

“How could she have reacted like that? She didn鈥檛 understand what had come over her. She鈥檇 felt his passion and her own. It made her anxious. On edge. For something. Something that made her skin prickle whenever he was in the room with her. Indeed, she found it difficult to concentrate when he was
around. He was big and strong and smelled incredible. She wanted to curl up against his chest and never leave. She鈥檇 never had such strong urges. But then again, she鈥檇 never met a man who made her feel so protected simply by his solid presence and his confident command of everything around him. His strength was strangely soothing. She couldn鈥檛 remember a time in her life when she鈥檇 felt so鈥ontent.”
― Monica McCarty, Highlander Unchained

“She just holds my gaze until I reach out and take her hand. I press her fingers to my skin and tingles shoot up my arm, hitting me right in the chest. She's going to turn me into one of those guys. One of those guys who blubber about their feelings and that terrifies me...”
― Allie Brennan, Tight Knit

“Lana was with me,鈥� I rushed. 鈥淚 mean鈥� I went with her. She had to go because her parents were there and鈥斺€�

I was rambling and I knew it. Yet it was the blank expression on Lachlan鈥檚 face that made me stop talking. His eyebrows were pinched together. Eyes scrunched as if he was trying to peer very carefully at me.

鈥淲hat are you talking about?鈥� he asked in a low voice.

I stared at him miserably; it was all I could do.

鈥淚t鈥檚 me鈥︹€� He pushed away part of his jacket and gripped the material of his shirt. 鈥淟achlan.”
― Calia Read, Unravel