Ducal Encounters 02 - With the Duke's Approval (31 page)

“What, my love? What have I overlooked?”

She dragged him by the hand, back into the hallway and picked up her pelisse.

“We need to be outside.”

“We do? Why? It’s freezing out there.”

“Precisely! We need to be out there for no other reason than the joy of being alive.”

“Then what are we waiting for?”

A short time later, they were back in the garden, hurling snowballs at one another. Anna rejoiced at the sound of Clarence’s uninhibited laughter, a rare and precious sound she had never heard before. She managed a brief wave for the astonished porter whom she noticed watching them from a window, probably thinking the world had run completely mad. Clarence sneaked up on her from behind and circled an arm around her waist. She screamed with laughter as they tumbled to the snowy ground together. Then he was kissing her with enough heat and passion to ward off the cold.

Clarence had not actually admitted to loving her. It was obvious he did not know how to say the words, but he had shown her in so many different ways through his actions that it hardly seemed to matter anymore. Besides, Anna had a lifetime ahead of her in which to teach him how to express his feeling.

The End

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Wendy Soliman is a British author, brought up on the Isle of Wight, who now divides her time between Andorra and the west coast of Florida. She shares her life with her long-suffering husband and a rescued dog of indeterminate pedigree, named Jake Bentley after the hero in one of her books. Both Jakes are handsome mongrels with independent spirits and wild streaks.

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• Title Page
  
• Copyright
  
• Chapter One
  
• Chapter Two
  
• Chapter Three
  
• Chapter Four
  
• Chapter Five
  
• Chapter Six
  
• Chapter Seven
  
• Chapter Eight
  
• Chapter Nine
  
• Chapter Ten
  
• Chapter eleven
  
• Chapter Twelve
  
• Chapter Thirteen
  
• Chapter Fourteen
  
• Chapter Fifteen
  
• Chapter Sixteen
  
• Chapter Seventeen
  
• Chapter Eighteen
  
• Chapter Nineteen
  
• Chapter Twenty
  
• Chapter Twenty One
  
• About the Author