“That would be wonderful, absolutely wonderful.”
Lanthia gave a little cry before she added,
“This cannot be true! Can it really be happening to me? How could I have guessed when I came to London to buy clothes that all this could happen in just two days?”
“No, not just two days. We have been travelling towards each other for many hundreds, perhaps thousands of years, hoping in each life we should find the one person we were both seeking, only to be disappointed.”
He kissed her gently and continued,
“Now that it has all really happened, we must not waste any more time! I want you as my wife and with me every moment of the day and night for the rest of our lives.”
“That is what I want too,” sighed Lanthia. “Oh, how marvellous everything is. I am too happy to put it into words.”
The Marquis felt the same, so he just kissed her.
Then, a little later as she was lying in his arms on the sofa, she whispered,
“You do realise, darling, that if we are married and you really love me as you say you do, it will no longer be appropriate for me to call you ‘Rake’.”
“That is just what I have been, but that life is now all over. I would like you to call me ‘Victor’, which is my favourite of the names I was christened with.”
He gave a little smile as he carried on,
“I have indeed been victorious. I have fought many battles in my life, but this one was the most difficult and the most successful!”
Lanthia laughed.
“I think ‘Victor’ is most appropriate for you. If in Greece I find I resemble a Goddess, you will certainly be one of the Gods!”
“That means we shall be happy forever, my darling, and of course live for ever, if not in this world, then in the next, but together and no longer searching for each other as we have been doing for so many centuries.”
“Oh, you understand! You do understand!” Lanthia cried. “How can I tell you how marvellous this is? I feel we have already reached Heaven.”
He drew her closer still.
“It will be pure Heaven wherever we are, because you are mine and I know as surely, my dearest darling Lanthia, as I know the world is round that you are the most perfect person in it.”
Then there was no more talking as the Marquis was kissing her again, fervently and passionately.
Kissing her until she felt as if he was carrying her up into the sky and they were touching the stars.
The stars were shining within their hearts as well, evoking an ecstasy beyond words and almost beyond thought.
It was the perfect love which came from the soul and which was given to them by God.
It was a love that would never die, but would go on into Eternity forever and ever.
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LOVERS IN LONDON
BARBARA CARTLAND
Barbaracartland.com Ltd
© 2008 by Cartland Promotions First published on the internet in October 2008 by Barbaracartland.com
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