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Epilogue
Six months later
“Where are you taking me?” Madalene asked as she sat next to him in the dimly lit coach.
Baldwin grinned at his wife’s exuberance. “You can stop pestering me with questions,” he said. “I am not going to tell you.”
“We have been traveling with the drapes closed for hours.”
He chuckled. “It has been closer to twenty minutes.”
Madalene gasped as she turned to face him. “Are you abducting me again?”
“I am not.”
“Are you taking me to the orphanage?”
He shook his head. “Why would I need to keep that a secret?”
“Good point,” she said, fidgeting with the reticule in her lap. “Although, I thought we were done with secrets.”
“This isn’t a secret.”
“It isn’t?”
Smiling, he replied, “No, it is a gift.”
“But I don’t need any more gifts from you,” she objected. “I daresay that you have spoiled me with all the jewelry you have given me. I mean it when I say that I am more than content with just being your wife.”
“It pleases me immensely to hear you say that.”
Bringing her face closer to his, she murmured, “You should know that I love you more with each passing day.”
Unable to resist, he bent his head and kissed her on the lips. He leaned back and said, “I could stay in the coach and kiss you all day.”
“Then why don’t you?” she asked coyly.
“Don’t tempt me.”
Her nose scrunched and she brought her hand up. “We are definitely in the rookeries,” she announced.
“Why do you say that?”
“Because it smells like the inside of a chamber pot.”
“That it does.”
Madalene offered him a curious look. “Do you miss working as an agent?”
“Part of me does,” he admitted. “I miss the danger and excitement of being a spy, but I do not regret my decision to retire.”
“No?”
He shook his head. “Lord Desmond may have been discredited when his solicitor testified against him, but he isn’t the only peer that is corrupt.”
“That is most unfortunate,” Madalene murmured.
Before he could reply, the coach came to a stop.
