‘Caroline—I am the second daughter.’
‘And you decided to run away to London after refusing to even contemplate becoming Westbourne’s bride?’
She gave a delicate shudder. ‘I could not possibly marry a man I do not love.’
‘And your sisters? Have they run away, too?’
‘Oh, no, I am sure they have not.’ Caro shook her head, firmly pushing away the flicker of doubt in her mind about that girl in the park who had looked so like Elizabeth. ‘I am the rebellious one, I am afraid.’
‘Something I will be grateful for until the day I die,’ Dominic assured her lovingly.
Dominic loved her just as much as Caro loved him—and she was blissfully certain that he would obtain his friend’s permission for the two of them to marry as soon as it could be arranged.
She wound her arms about his neck as she arched up into him. ‘Would you care to show me how much you are grateful, Dominic?’
‘Gladly!’ he groaned as his head lowered and his mouth once again captured hers, the two of them quickly forgetting everything and everyone else but the love they felt for one other, now and for always.
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THE LADY GAMBLES
Copyright © 2011 by Carole Mortimer
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