Murdoch shifted, retreating to the washroom door. “I owe him my life, many times over. And, as such, I owe my life for yers, as well.” “How is that?” she whispered, uncomfortable with the veneration on his gentle face. “Well, ye’re his Fairy, of course, his lady wife for all intents and purposes. We promised Dougan Mackenzie that we’d find ye. That we’d protect ye. That, if we could, we’d give ye back the life that ye’re owed, the life he would have wanted for ye.”

