“That is what I will do when I really make you mine,” the Duke said.
She thought now that he had spoken with a note in his voice that seemed to vibrate through her and, even as she thought of him, the door of the cabin opened and he came in.
He seemed to fill not only the small space where they were standing but the whole world, the sea and the sky.
Aldora’s eyes as she looked at him were very revealing and the Duke closed the door and held out his arms.
She ran towards him and he pulled her close against him before he asked,
“Can it really be true that we are married and at last we can be alone together?”
“It is what – I have been – waiting for too,” Aldora said and there was a throb in the words that told him how much it meant to her.
She had known when they knelt together in St.
