Page 53 of Defying Drakon

Drakon reached down and picked up the box from where it had fallen when they’d begun to kiss each other, flicking open the lid and taking out the emerald and diamond ring.

‘I will love you for eternity, Gemini,’ he pledged as he slipped the ring onto her finger.

‘As I will love you, Drakon,’ she vowed in return.

Two weeks later, on their wedding night, Drakon carried Gemini into the master bedroom of his house on the island in the Aegean Sea, pushing aside the gauzy curtains around a four-poster bed surrounded by the perfume of dozens upon dozens of rose petals. They lay down upon the covers and made long and beautiful love with each other…