Page 69 of Awakened By Time

“Oh, my!” Brenna said. “I’m so happy for ye both.”

“Congratulations, you two,” Zeke added. “I’m going to be an uncle!”

“Don’t say anything to Logan,” Sara said.

“Or Dougall.” Helene hugged Dr. Ferguson. “Thank ye. ‘Twould be good to have ye here for the births.”

“I’ll plan on it then.” Dr. Ferguson picked up his bag and headed for the door with Helene and Sara following him.

“It’s been quite a day,” Zeke said.

“It has.” Brenna was in his arms in an instant.

Zeke had a lot of thinking to do. After today’s events, he felt it was important for Brenna to join him in the future. She couldn’t live her whole life here worrying about Nevil Munro and Zeke was quite sure she’d have good reason to. He just wasn’t sure she’d fit in there. He wasn’t even sure she wanted to go with him. He thought maybe she did. It was pretty obvious that they loved each other, although neither one of them had said the words yet.

“Shall we go downstairs? We don’t want Helene and Sara to think we spend all of our time in bed.” Zeke chucked her under the chin.

“If we must.” Brenna wore an impish expression, letting him know that maybe she’d rather stay right where they were.

“Come on. I’m nursing an injury.” He pretended to limp to the door and Brenna almost tackled him from behind.

“I may have to injure yer other leg to keep ye here,” Brenna teased.

“I promise. We’ll come back up as soon as Sara goes home. Besides, we were helping Helene in the kitchen, remember. Aren’t you hungry?”

“A wee bit,” she conceded, slipping around in front of him to stand between him and the door.

Zeke got the hint and backing her up against the door, he moved her hair out of his way and slowly teased her neck with kisses, working his way up to her jawline and then to her lips, which were parted and waiting. He loved to kiss her. For a woman with little experience, she could set him on fire with those lips and that tongue. At this rate, they’d never make it downstairs. She wrapped her arms around his neck and he pulled her closer, feeling every inch of her pressed up against himself.

A knock on the door at Brenna’s back, froze them mid-kiss. “Yes,” Zeke said.

“Are you coming downstairs or what?” Sara asked.

Brenna wrinkled her nose and moved away from the door. He opened it just a crack, waiting for the evidence of what had just taken place to return to normal. “Sara, did anyone ever tell you you’ve got the worst timing?”

“Oops! Sorry,” she said, looking and sounding not the least bit sorry.

Brenna slipped past Zeke and opened the door further so she could leave the room.

“I’ll be there in a minute,” Zeke said, remembering just how difficult Sara had made his life when they were younger when he’d try to sneak a girl up to his room.

“Okay. See you downstairs,” she said, giggling like the little trouble maker she’d always been.

Zeke took a moment to gather himself and the body part that seemed to have a mind of its own. Payback was going to be sweet. Unfortunately, he wasn’t quite as good at causing trouble as Sara was. Closing the door behind him he went downstairs thinking of ways he might get back at his baby sister.