"I said to myself, 'She's mended ye twice in as many hours, me lad life amongst the MacKenzies being what it is, it might be as well to wed a woman as can stanch a wound and set broken bones.' And I said to myself, 'Jamie, lad, if her touch feels so bonny on your collarbone, imagine what it might feel like lower down.'" I started toward him, and he backed away, talking rapidly. When I woke in the dark under that tree on the road to Leoch, with you sitting on my chest, cursing me for bleeding to death, I said to myself, 'Jamie Fraser, for all ye canna see what she looks like, and for all she weighs as much as a good draft horse, this is the woman'" "When I asked my da how ye knew which was the right woman, he told me when the time came, I'd have no doubt. Seeing my openmouthed expression, he continued lightly. Whatever I had been expecting, it wasn't this. "More than I ever wanted anything in my life," he added softly. “Because I wanted you." He turned from the window to face me.
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