Yet the tenderness was still there, as if he was touching a flower.
For Bertilla it was as if all Heaven had opened and lifted her into a rapture and glory that was indescribable.
She only knew that this was what she had longed for, yearned for and yet not really known it could even be a possibility.
At the touch of Lord Saire’s arms her whole body melted into his and she became incredibly and miraculously a part of him.
His lips brought her an ecstasy that she had never known existed and she felt a sense of wonder and adoration move through her until it was as if everything that was beautiful and everything that she had ever known was divine was there in him.
‘This is love!’ she thought.
And yet it was so much more, it was everything she had sought and longed for and known in the ba
