It was like being lifted into a Heaven which she had not known existed and the wonder of it was a warm wave flowing through her body, drowning her heart and ending in her lips.
The Marquis’s arms tightened and he drew her closer.
Araminta’s mouth was very soft beneath his and she felt as if something magnetic and vibrant drew her heart and soul from her body.
It was a rapture and a joy such as she had never known or believed possible.
‘This is love!’ she told herself. ‘The love I always believed I would find.’
The Marquis released her lips to kiss her eyes, her cheeks, then again her mouth.
Each time he touched her she quivered with a new and miraculous sensation that had something spiritual and divinely perfect about it.
Finally he raised his head and looked down at her.
Araminta’
