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“Are you declaring yourself a servant?” She stood.
"Yes,yourservant.” He grinned and circled an arm about her waist. “You look lovely. Have I told you that?” He leaned to kiss her but was interrupted by a knock on the open door.
"Enter," he called but did not release her.
Bentley walked in with a box wrapped in brown parchment. Nicholas asked him to set it down by her escritoire before waving him away. "Now, where were we?" He kissed the tip of her nose.
"I believe you were about to kiss me here.” She tapped her lips, chuckling.
"I believe you were about to eat." He kissed her nose again before releasing her.
"That's not fair!" Jenny cried. “What is in the box?”
"Eat then I will tell you."
"If you continue to feed me like this, I might need the door expanded?"
His eyes darkened as they swept over her body. “You look perfect. And Dr. Jenson says you need nutrition."
After she had eaten, he picked the box and brought it to her. "Open it," he urged, grinning.
She eagerly tore the parchment to the sight of the gloomiest painting she ever saw. It was a painting of a typical London street at night. There was nothing that stood out amidst the lamps, horses and carriages, carts, and a fraction of the aristocrats taking a moonlit stroll on the cobbled streets. Something about the painting struck her with melancholy and hope all at once.
"Nicky, this is a horrible painting." She laughed, loving it. “I love it!”
"You asked for a painting of what view had me so transfixed by the window that night you came me. I was staring out at that, thinking." He reached for her hands. “Jenny, it is a good representation of the storm we have weathered to get here. It is melancholy and it is hopeful. It is our story.”
Her eyes dampened. “I did not think you would take me seriously.”
"Do you like it?"
"Oh, I love it, Nicky! I love you!"
His eyes misted and he buried his face in her neck. The days following his grandmother’s confession had been difficult for him but Jenny had comforted him in any way she could.
"God knows I do not deserve you but I am thankful." He kissed her, passionately. "You complete me and I cannot express in words what your love means to me."
"You can always show me." She pressed her body to his. “We have all day.”
“Indeed we do.” He gently pulled her atop him.
The End?
