"I wish I wasn't." Kristin leaned closer to Philip as continued to
speak quietly. "Amber showed me the mark Jane left on her." Blinkin
back tears, she took a deep breath. "Jane would never, ever do
anything like that; I can't even begin to guess at what could be
wrong-but after the council...I have to find out."
Suddenly Kristin realized how close she was leaning to Philip.
"I'll go wi'th ye." He offered, seeing the troubled look in her eyes and
reacting to it before realizing their proximity. He had reached out and
raised her chin with his forefinger to tell her not to look so down, that
there had to be an explaination. That maybe it had all been an accident, or
something. He even opened his mouth to say the words.
And found himself closing the space between them and gently kissing her lips
and then sitting back, wonderin what the hell just possessed him to do such
a thing. But, instead of getting upset he asked a question she had asked
him a couple of years ago, during one of their long talks and walking in
Boston.
"Do ye think that'll last ten years?"
Something in his head pled that maybe he would use the scotch as an excuse,
the other seemed to be looking at him as if he had fallen off his last
rocker.
He wondered which it was himself.
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