Chapter 7Sona sobbed all the way back to The Castle in the Marquis’s arms.
When he first clambered inside the tunnel, having dug away the opening, she thought that he was like St. Michael coming down from Heaven to save her.
She had been listening to the men working outside with the tears running down her face and only when finally the Marquis was beside her and she could cling onto him did she realise how cold and terrified she had been.
“It’s all right,” he said quietly, “you are safe now and I swear that nothing like this will happen to you again.”
She could hardly understand what he said, but was only conscious that he was there, that she was close to him and the terror she had endured was over.
Nevertheless the shock had now caught up with her and by the time they reached The Cas
