–I love – you“I not only love you, my precious little wife, I adore you,” the King sighed.
“I-I did not disappoint you?”
He pulled her a little closer.
“How can you ask me such a foolish question? I have never, and this is the truth, known anything so perfect, so ecstatic and so ideal!”
He paused before he asked,
“How can you make me feel like this?”
“Am I – really so – different?” Sola asked.
She was thinking of all the women he had known, who had all been like the Countess.
“Very very different,” he answered, “for as I have told you, I Iove and adore you. I also worship you and want to place you in a Shrine and light thousands candles to you.”
“How can you – say such wonderful things?” Sola whispered. “And, as you said before you – loved me, I am very ignorant about – love.”
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