It was also a strange ecstasy moving through her whole body, invading her breasts and making his lips, as they touched hers, give her a rapture that was so glorious that it could only be part of the Divine.
Only when the Earl raised his head did the wonder of what she felt express itself in the only she could.
“I love you!” she murmured. “I – love you!”
The note of rapture in her voice and the radiance in her eyes excited him so that he could only kiss her again.
He kissed her until the world seemed to swim dizzily around them and they were floating high above it in the sky.
Finally, as if they were human enough to break under the glory of it, the Earl took his lips from hers and looking down at her said in a voice that sounded strange and hoarse,
“How can you make me feel like this?
