“But I have married you,” the Marquis said, “because I love you more than I can ever love anybody else in my life, and because, as you well know, my precious, there is something inescapable between us.”
He kissed her again before he added, “We can neither of us ever be complete without the other.”
“How can you say such wonderful things to me?” Diona asked. “It is what I feel but I never thought you would – feel it too.”
The Marquis smiled as he replied, “I felt it literally from the first moment I saw you, but I fought against it, telling myself I had no wish to marry anybody.”
“But – Lady Sybille said – ”
“Forget her!” he interrupted. “She is of no importance in our lives. I suppose I was foolish to have taken you to London, but I did so for your sake.”
“For my – sake?”
“Because yo
