"Dominic, please stop! Your mother would never approve of such a union!"
"So just who do you think it was that made me see the truth for what it was?" Dominic said? "Alannah, do you remember the rain storm? The one you got caught up in and you had gotten hurt? Well that night I demanded that you take you wet clothes off, when you were unable to because of you injury I cut the dress of. You stood before me naked, you were vulnerable, I could have done anything to you but instead I merely put a robe on you and carried you upstairs to your room and placed you in a tub of warm water. My mother read me the riot act for all that. She was the one that made me see that I would never have done that with a mere guest in our home nor would I do that for a perfect stranger. I also would not have sat by the bed side and waited there until you woke up. Alannah, my mother knew that I had loved you even before I did. From the moment I saw you under the weaping willow crying, I knew I just couldn't bring myself to admit it. You were like a forlorn nymph who had lost her way."
After hearing him tell her that he loved her for a second time, she should have been extatic, but instead it only scared her. Alannah sat down on the tree stum, and placed her head in hands, with a trembling voice she replied
"Dominic do you know how long I have waited for you to say that to me? Now that Erik has shown up I have hope that I can finally stop running, but Dominic even with Erik here the two of you can't protect me from my father forever. You can't protect love, my father will destroy it, he will destroy you! Don't you see?"
"Nonsense, Erik and I will protect you. I soke to Erik earlier today, he said that he may know where Jakob is hiding, he thinks that Jakob is here on the island. He went to go look for him and said he would return soon. In the meatime, I have ordered additional supplies and guns for my men, and I am upgrading the big guns on the island. We will be prepared for your father. I have Eriks' blessing to marry you Alannah, please say you will be my wife."