She hid her face against him and the Duke drew her closer as he said,
“I knew when I kissed you how innocent you were, which again was very unlike your cousin, and when I made love to you it was the most exciting and the most thrilling thing I have ever done in my life!”
He kissed her forehead before he added,
“I also knew that it had made you irrevocably mine.”
“That is what I – felt,” Sacha murmured, “and if you had never – discovered that I was not Deirdre I would – never have married anybody else because I was – your wife until I – died.”
The Duke did not reply.
He merely kissed her gently and yet possessively as if she was infinitely precious.
Then, because the softness and innocence of her lips excited him, his kisses became more demanding and more passionate.
As he felt Sach
