The kiss consumed him. Destroyed him. He'd never felt anything more powerful, not even the day before when they'd kissed in the stream. He hadn't told her his secret then. That she knew, and still welcomed his touch with such unbounded love, humbled him beyond belief.
He pulled away just long enough to murmur, "Inside, sweeting. Not here in the dust." Not for her first time, their only time.
She blushed, sent him a shy grin.
"Inside, then. Quickly, my love." She took his hand and tugged, fairly running to the cottage. "I put clean sheets on the bed, while you and Huw tended the horses this morning."
He ran alongside her like a lad. He might be sixteen again when she looked at him with such open desire in her eyes. Following her to the bedchamber, he closed the curtain behind him.
Sele
