Chapter SixSomething was wrong and Nerissa was not certain what it was.
She had thought after the excitement of last night that this would be such a happy day and she awoke feeling that her heart was singing and all was right with the world.
She had arranged with Harry that they would ride early before anybody else was about and he was waiting for her when she came from her bedroom and they went to the stables together.
They took their horses immediately to the gallop and Nerissa could not help continually looking behind her expecting every moment that the Duke would join them.
But, although they stayed on the gallop for a long time, there was no sign of him and, as they rode home through the woods the same way that he had taken Nerissa the first morning, she wondered why he had stayed
