He bent his head as he spoke and at the same time put his fingers under Calista’s chin and turned her face up to his.
Then his mouth was on hers.
She felt a sensation such as she had never known before seep through her body and rise like a warm wave up to her throat and into her lips.
It was so glorious and so perfect that she knew that this was love. This was what she had wanted to find in the man she married and for him to find in her.
It was a wonder, a glory, a rapture such as she had never dreamt existed in the world.
Then, as the Earl felt her lips respond to him and the softness of her body seemed to melt against him, his kiss grew more demanding, more passionate and more insistent.
Calista felt the room whirl round and disappear so that she and the Earl were alone in the sunl
