Price of Desire
“The phase spun around inside her head even as she spoke the words. It should have sent her doubling over in gales of laughter, but instead it touched some chord deep inside.
A love match. Four years ago it could have been. For the first time Rose felt truly disloyal to John. For a moment she had remembered what it had been like to feel that first wave of passion for a brave young soldier, to imagine herself a carefree girl. If all that had been true, could it have been a love match?
“Ye...s, a love match. They’ll think we’re simply besotted with each other. Hard as that might be to believe.” He cocked a brow at her, but his words rang bitter.
Did he really have to make it clear how little he wanted this wedding? She wasn’t even sure why he desired her. Even without the earldom he was such a magnificent example of a man. What woman could resist those broadly muscled shoulders? And so brave and honorable, and that softness she’d seen peeking through with Anna, and two nights ago in the garden, and his smile .MoreLess
A love match. Four years ago it could have been. For the first time Rose felt truly disloyal to John. For a moment she had remembered what it had been like to feel that first wave of passion for a brave young soldier, to imagine herself a carefree girl. If all that had been true, could it have been a love match?
“Ye...s, a love match. They’ll think we’re simply besotted with each other. Hard as that might be to believe.” He cocked a brow at her, but his words rang bitter.
Did he really have to make it clear how little he wanted this wedding? She wasn’t even sure why he desired her. Even without the earldom he was such a magnificent example of a man. What woman could resist those broadly muscled shoulders? And so brave and honorable, and that softness she’d seen peeking through with Anna, and two nights ago in the garden, and his smile .MoreLess
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