Handfasted (To Love a Governess Novella) (15 page)

“Have you?”

“Yes, marry me, Katrina.”

“That is what I came here to tell you,” Mr. Wallace interrupted.

Both Katrina and Timothy turned to look at him.

“You already are.”

“Yes, I know. We are handfasted,” Katrina reminded the old man.

“No, yes.”
He threw his hands up in the air. “Let me start again. The vicar used the wrong ceremony.
 
He thought he was doing the handfasting, but he performed the marriage ceremony.”

“It wasn’t a church ceremony with prayer,” Timothy reminded him.

“No, it was similar to the words the blacksmithy says in Gretna Green, over the anvil.”

“And not a handfasting?”
Katrina asked slowly.

“No. You are as good as married already.
 
Even if you wanted to part in a year and a day, you would still be married.”

Joy burst inside Katrina and she turned to Timothy.
 
He grinned and pulled her into his arms.

“I suppose this means we are going to advertise for a governess again,” Lord Fairfield mumbled from the settee.

Timothy pulled away and turned to Fairfield. “I apologize for the inconvenience, but I am afraid you will need to find another governess.”

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The Wiggons’ School for Elegant Young Ladies Series

To Walk in the Sun

A Gentleman’s Guide to Once Upon a Time Series

His Impetuous Debutante

His Contrary Bride

His Not So Sensible Miss

To Love a Governess

Sacked (Regency Short)

Handfasted (Regency Novella)

About Jane

Jane Charles has lived in the Midwest her entire life. As a child she would more likely be found outside with a baseball than a book in her hand. In fact, Jane hated reading until she was sixteen. Out of boredom on a long road trip she borrowed her older sister’s historical romance and fell in love with reading. She long ago lost count of how many fiction novels she has read over the years and her love for them never died.
 
Along with romance she has a passion for history and the two soon combined when she penned her first historical romance.
 
What turned into a hobby became a passion, which has been fully supported by her husband, three children and three cats.

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