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‘Julius! You can’t turn your back on duty.’
‘My first duty is to you,’ he told her. ‘I mean it.’
She thought he had never looked more serious.
‘They’re passing up a brilliant king, but that’s on them. I’m not turning my back, and I will be a better king with you by my side. That’s it. So, do I have to ask again? I don’t know how this romantic stuff works... Do you want to marry me?’
Then he put a hand over her mouth.
‘Before you respond, you should know that there is still a very good chance you would be Queen Consort. Would you want to be?’
He removed his hand.
‘I want whatever makes us work.’
‘I think we can handle it either way.’
‘I would love to marry you, Julius.’
‘Good,’ he said. ‘What else? Do we go and sign something...?’
‘No.’ She smiled. ‘That’s it. We have a verbal agreement. Well, there is one more thing... You have to return my peacock...’
‘No, he’s mine now. And he will sit on my desk. Don’t ever say no to me unless you mean it. Or yes...’
‘Oh, I mean it. Yes!’
He kissed her with heartfelt emotion, and she kissed him back with the same. Then he removed the towel she’d stopped clutching with ease, and discarded it, and she wrapped her arms around his neck and breathed in his love.
She closed her eyes but could not stop the tears falling. ‘I’m happy...’ she said.
‘I know...’
He was everything she hadn’t known she wanted, and just impossible not to completely love...
‘Take my boots off,’ he told her.
‘I can’t.’
She couldn’t remove herself from him, or stop kissing him.
‘Stay there, then...’
He told her that his military wear wasn’t designed for easy access, but she didn’t care. She was kissing his neck, and his ear, and pressing herself into him.
She hadn’t known that she could love so very much. Every part of her, even her heart, felt as if it were opening, and she was wet and ready as he slid into her.
‘Oh...’ He closed his eyes and told her how good she felt.
‘And you...’
He made her unashamed. He lay back and watched her and Beatrice thought she might die with the pleasure that was building—and this time she wasn’t fighting it.
All her reservations were left at the door, and she was relaxed as he played with her breasts and then held her hips as he thrust into her, and even as she closed her eyes she knew he was watching her climax.
It shuddered through her, and she felt the swell and rush of him inside her. She was giddy with deep pleasure, and so breathless...looking down at herself, and him, and watching the last beats of their union.
‘I love you so much,’ she told him.
