“Only my hands?” she replied on an oddly choked voice as a strange combination of laughter, tears and breathless desire bubbled in her throat.
Fire sparked in his eyes. “No. But if I start describing to you now everything that I’ve missed, we’d be standing under this tree for the rest of the day and all night. It would probably be better if I just showed you afterwards.”
Afterwards? After what?
Still holding her hands and her gaze, James descended to one knee before her.
Beth’s breath caught as a heady thrill of anticipation flared inside her.
James’s eyes were shining as he looked up at her. He swallowed, took a deep breath, and his voice, when he spoke, was uncharacteristically unsteady. “Beth, do you recall that I made a vow to you once?”
She nodded, breathless. “Of course.”
He smiled, his dark eyes fixed intently on hers. “I think it’s about time that I made good on that promise. Beth, love of my heart, light of my life. Will you do me the untold honor of consenting to marry me?”
Beth swallowed, and then drew in a shaky breath as she prepared to respond, not even bothering to blink away the tears of joy that suddenly brimmed in her eyes. There was no reason in the world that she couldn’t at last answer James with the one precious word she’d always longed to say to him.
“Yes.”
*The End*
About the Author
Amy Rose Bennett has always wanted to be a writer for as long as she can remember. An avid reader with a particular love for historical romance, it seemed only natural to write stories in her favorite genre. She has a passion for creating emotion-packed—and sometimes a little racy—stories set in the Georgian and Regency periods. Of course, her strong-willed heroines and rakish heroes always find their happily ever after.
As an unpublished author, Amy has been a finalist in contests in both Romance Writers of Australia and Romance Writers of America. In 2013 and 2014, she achieved a place in the top three of Romance Writers of Australia’s Emerald Award, and her debut Regency romance novel—‘Lady Beauchamp’s Proposal’—was the winning entry in the historical section of two Romance Writers of America Chapter Contests in 2013—the Chicago North Fire and Ice Contest and the San Francisco Heart to Heart Contest.
Amy is happily married to her own Alpha male hero, has two beautiful daughters, a rather loopy Rhodesian Ridgeback and a Devonshire Rex cat with attitude. She is a Speech Pathologist, but is currently devoting her time to her one other true calling—writing romance.
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