by Joyce Alec
She shook her head. “It makes me think more of you,” she told him as he smiled. “I admire you greatly, Lord Stephen.”
Their eyes met, an understanding between them.
“My brother,” Lord Stephen continued with a small shake of his head and a small sigh escaping his lips, “is to continue recovering at his estate. This townhouse will be signed over to me.”
She blinked in surprise, seeing the small smile on Stephen’s face. “You are to live here?”
“I have a townhouse of my own, of course,” Stephen said, laughing, “but this is much grander. Besides which, I shall need the most excellent of townhouses for my dear wife.”
Julia’s heart stopped for a moment at the tender look that came into Stephen’s eyes.
“That is,” he continued softly, letting go of her hand so that he might gently put one hand to her cheek, his thumb brushing her neck. “That is, Julia, if you will accept me.”
A single tear fell from her eyes but her smile was a brilliant one. “I could not imagine a single day without you, Lord Stephen,” she answered, her voice rasping just a little from the sheer emotion she felt. “Yes, I would marry you.”
He said nothing, merely looking into her eyes as though he wanted to savor every part of this moment. Then, with a contented sigh, he smiled at her again. “You must know that I have both a great admiration and an ever deepening love for you, Julia,” he told her, sending her heart soaring. “I never thought of marriage until the day I realized that I could not continue in my life without you.” His head began to lower and Julia lifted her face to his, ready for his kiss. “I love you desperately.”
“As I love you,” she answered, her lips finally meeting his in a kiss of love.
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