Must Love Scotland by Grace Burrowes

Author:Grace Burrowes [Burrowes, Grace]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance, Contemporary, General
ISBN: 9781941419137
Google: HanTBgAAQBAJ
Publisher: Grace Burrowes Publishing
Published: 2015-05-01T04:00:00+00:00

“I’m a little tipsy,” Julie said as she and Niall meandered back to the cottage. “That Longmorn is wicked good.”

“You’re relieved,” Niall said. “Declan is too.”

“What about you?” Julie asked. Niall was so damned good-looking, in his kilt and boots, so sexy. Lord, she wanted to take him to bed for the rest of her—

Right. The plane took off tomorrow. She’d reached a decision about that too.

“Declan’s advice on environmental matters will be very useful,” Niall said. “And I’d rather he be on my board of directors than suing me over every golf ball that strays into his pastures.”

“You get free organic dairy and eggs, and landscaping out of the deal.”

Solemnized on a bar napkin, as the best deals always were. Scottish common sense had won the day, while the Longmorn had suffered a thorough defeat. Declan had been eyeing a bottle of the twenty-one-year-old, and neither Donald nor Hamish had seemed inclined to stop him.

They’d been too busy arguing over why and when the river had changed course.

“Niall, how would you have reacted if you’d lost your dream for the golf course?”

He slung his arm over Julie’s shoulders, and that, oddly, lifted a weight from them.

“Declan was probably fretting over that very outcome. Converting my golf course into properly fenced pasture would have taken capital, and he’s not fond of parting with his capital. If I’d lost control over half my land, I’d probably have offered to farm with him. We’re cousins, if you go back far enough.”

“You’re friends, right now. That makes me happy. I think it will make your family happy, too.”

Niall remained quiet, but it was a contented, sweet silence that lasted until Julie was sitting side by side with him on the cottage’s porch swing, her hand in his.

“If I hadn’t sat by the river,” Julie said, “if Donald hadn’t offered me a few sips of inspiration, if Maryland and Virginia weren’t recently quarreling over the Potomac River, I might have misinterpreted Nancy MacPherson’s will, Niall. You could have lost everything, or Declan might have, because I couldn’t see the evidence clearly.”

He kissed her knuckles. “You might have made a mistake, true. I would not have lost everything.”

His voice no longer bore a Scottish accent to Julie, it was simply Niall’s voice, and beautiful.

“You have your family,” she said. “You have golf, you have the ability to dream. You’re right, you would not have lost everything. We still have most of the afternoon. Do you want to hit some balls?”

“No, Julie Leonard, I do not want to play golf right now, not in any fashion.”

“Are you angry?” Niall was something, not necessarily upset, but neither was he asking Julie to tear up her plane ticket.

“I am in love, Julie Leonard,” Niall said, kissing her cheek. “And I would also like to be in bed, with you.”

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