“Aye, I’ll do it,” Duncan accepted, puffing his chest out with pride.
“Gavin, come over here,” Rob said. When the boy walked around the bed and stood beside her, she asked, “Do ye like yer baby sister?”
Gavin nodded. With one finger, he touched the tiny palm of the baby’s hand and smiled when she closed her fingers around it.
“Would ye be willin’ to stand as Mairi’s godfather?” Rob asked.
“I’ll protect her with my life,” Gavin vowed. His gray eyes, so much like his father’s, gleamed with excitement.
“And will ye slay the monsters beneath her bed?” Gordon asked.
Gavin nodded solemnly and then leaned close to his sister, whispering, “Damsel, yer hero is here.”
Duke Magnus ushered the boys toward the door; but at the last moment, Gavin ran back to the bed. “I love ye, Lady Rob,” the boy said, planting a kiss on her cheek. “Thank ye for my sister.”
“Yer verra welcome,” Rob replied with tears welling up in her eyes. “I love ye too.”
Gavin kissed her cheek again and said in a loud whisper, “Do ye suppose Mairi will want a sister too?”
Gordon chuckled, earning an unamused look from his wife.
Rob turned to the boy and answered, “Perhaps Mairi will want a sister. We’ll ask her when she gets older.”
When his father and his sons had gone, Gordon rose from the bed and gently set Hunter in his cradle. Then he lifted Mairi out of her mother’s arms and placed her in her own cradle beside her brother’s.
Returning to the bed, Gordon gathered his wife into his arms. He kissed the crown of her head when she sighed with contentment.
“I want to thank ye for my son and my daughter.”
“Yer verra welcome, my lord.” Rob smiled into his piercing gray gaze, but sudden tears welled up in her eyes when she said, “And thank ye for giftin’ me with a home where I truly belong.”
“Shall I say the words?” he asked softly.
“Well, ye did promise to say them for all the days of our lives.”
“I do love ye more than life, my sweet angel,” Gordon vowed in a voice hoarse with emotion. “Ye and no other.”
“And I love ye, Gordy,” Rob whispered as his lips claimed hers. “Ye and no other.”
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