QUOTE : Pistols, please,” she said, once they’d all returned. She traded her bow and arrow for a single-barreled weapon.<br /><br />Each lady in line lifted a similar firearm and held it in braced, outstretched arms, staring down her respective bull’s-eye. When Susanna cocked her pistol, the others followed suit. The chorus of clicks raced down Bram’s spine.<br /><br />“I find this scene wildly arousing,” Colin murmured, echoing Bram’s own thoughts. “Is that wrong?”<br /><br />“If it is, I can promise you company in hell.”<br /><br />His cousin made an amused sound. “And you thought we have nothing in common.”<br /><br />Susanna leveled her pistol and took aim. “One... Two...”<br /><br />Crack.