‘I think they knew you were about to receive yet another proposal of marriage. You will marry me, won’t you, Sophie?’ Robert asked, gently pulling her back into his arms. ‘And stay with me always?’
Sophie smiled. To think that one day soon she would say the words that would make this wonderful man her husband. Was it only a few weeks ago that the idea of marriage had seemed so untenable? That the thought of entrusting her heart to a man she’d met in a crowded coaching inn would seem so utterly implausible?
Hard to believe, but it was—and she wouldn’t have changed a thing. Because everything she’d gone through had brought her to this moment. To this conclusion. To this man standing before her. ‘Yes, I will marry you,’ she said without hesitation. ‘And I will stay with you for as long as you wish me to stay. For as long as you love me.’
‘Then I expect we’re going to be together for a very long time.’ His eyes grew dark as he bent his head to kiss her. ‘And that we are going to be happy for a longer time still.’
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COURTING MISS VALLOIS
Copyright © 2010 Gail Whitiker
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