by Louisa Trent
And maybe that was the truth, the path he needed to follow, not a straight line at all towards forgiveness, but a circuitous path that began and ended in the same place. With her, only and always, with her.
"I love you, Harry. I always have loved you. I will love you to the day I draw my last breath. Since you toddled the wharves after me, I have loved no other but you. Now simmer down before you make yourself ill."
She yanked away; he let her go--but not too far.
"You wish to take that Quaker to wife," she grumbled, the fight not gone out of her yet. "I saw your devotion to her. I cannot be like that godly woman. I cannot do it," she said fitfully.
"And who asked you to be like anyone else but yourself? Listen to me, girl, and listen to me good--I will never wed another if I cannot wed you. That tattoo you wear is called an anti-gallican hitch. It's a knot that cannot be untied; only cutting through the heart of it will sever the connection. Do you see, Harry? This is how I feel for you--only death will cut me from you. I will love you always. Say you will be my wife."
She blinked. "You l-l-love me?"
He swallowed his pride. He couldn't give Harry all that he longed to give her, but he would give her all that he had to give. "Regardless of my skin color, irrespective of where my people hale, with everything that makes me a man, I love you."
"And I love you the same, with everything that makes me a woman. And I will wed you based on that reason and no other. So long as you promise never to pat me again on the head," she said tremulously, allowing him to see her tears as she turned into his waiting arms.
THE END
About the Author:
Louisa Trent is happiest writing and so she writes all the time, even when the veggies are in need of peeling and the dust bunnies are in need of vacuuming. When she was far too young to contemplate anything as serious as marriage, she snatched up a boy with a sense of humor and led him right to the altar.
Somewhere along the way, she picked up a couple of academic degrees which she uses each and every day, though certainly not in the way she intended to use them. Blessed with three funny sons and a husband who still makes her giggle, she lives in a quaint New England town in a messy home surrounded by flowers and laughter.
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