Love's Tangle (26 page)
She protested and he rolled her off the log onto the grass and swiftly followed, covering her body with his. “The plait has to go. And so does the dress. How many times...”
“But not here,” she breathed jerkily.
“Here,” he insisted, and made short work of the grey gown.
The dress was cast aside, crumpled and slightly torn, but she hardly noticed. From now on, she would wear the silks befitting her station. From now on, she would be his duchess, for he loved her.
A chattering of birds greeted their tumble to the ground and from every corner of the glade the trees rustled their appreciation. It was as though the entire world rejoiced with them.
“We have been so long apart, I hope we have not forgot,” he murmured tenderly, divesting them both of their remaining clothes and beginning to kiss every small part of her, slowly and thoroughly.
“I think it unlikely,” she murmured back. His lips were burning her skin and gradually rousing her to a remembered delight.
Then quite suddenly he suspended his kisses. “What did you have to tell me?”
“Later,” she whispered, willing him not to stop.
“Why later?”
“It is a gift and you must wait.” Her precious news would be the perfect ending to a perfect day, she decided. “Right now I need you to love me.”
And he did.
A word about the author...
Isabelle Goddard was born into an army family and spent her childhood moving around the UK and abroad. Unsurprisingly it gave her itchy feet, and in her twenties she escaped from an unloved secretarial career to work as cabin crew and see the world.
The arrival of marriage, children, and cats meant a more settled life in the south of England, where she has lived ever since. It also gave her the opportunity to go back to “school” and eventually teach at university.
Isabelle loves the nineteenth century and grew up reading Georgette Heyer, so when she plucked up the courage to begin writing herself her novels had to be Regency romances.
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