She knew, as an ecstasy swept through her body and into her lips, that she loved him as he had said he loved her.
*
It seemed a long time later, but it was actually only a short while before the yacht was heading downstream.
“Now – you must tell me – what has happened?” Caterina asked.
“All I can think about at the moment is kissing you as I have wanted to do for so long,” the Duke said. “How can you be so beautiful and so ecstatically lovely?”
“I have been so worried – and I did not realise – it was because I loved you – until you kissed me.”
The Duke smiled.
“I have so much to teach you, my darling, and it’s going to take a very long time.”
“Why are we moving?” Caterina asked him.
“I will tell you the whole story, but all I can think about at present is you and how utterly and c
