He knew as he did so, that never with the many women with whom he had been involved had he felt as he did at this moment.
It was not the violent fiery passion he was accustomed to.
It was something that was not only physically rapturous but also spiritually ecstatic.
He felt, as Donela did, that they no longer had their feet on the ground.
They were flying high up to the sky and into the heart of the sun itself.
It was so rapturous that the Earl raised his head as if he could not believe that what he was feeling was real.
He saw the radiance in Donela’s face and it made her even lovelier than she had ever been before.
Then he was kissing her again, kissing her fiercely, passionately, as if he would never let her go.
It was only when they were both breathless that the Earl said in a
