This is what she had dreamt of – this is what she had thought never to know again.
She was safe! She was free!
She loved him so overwhelmingly that she felt as if she became a part of him. Her lips were his and belonged to him like her heart.
Lord Sheldon raised his head and gave a deep sigh.
“I do not think I have ever been so frightened in my life as I have been these past two hours, wondering if I would really get you away, or whether plans would be changed at the last moment and you would not walk in the courtyard as you have done every other day.”
“How did you – know? How did – you find – out?”
He smiled and drew her down onto a comfortable sofa.
“We have so much to tell each other,” he said, “but let me say first that I love you and that the only thing I want is that we should
