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“Please excuse me. I do look forward to our tea,” she said before making her way to Titus.
Garbed in a splendid gold-threaded ivory waistcoat with pitch-black coat and trousers, he was easily the most attractive man in the room, but then he always was. His hair was still quite dark, though he had a few silver strands here and there that he preferred to ignore.
“Sorry I’m late.” His voice caressed her as she linked her arm through his, and they walked into the drawing room for the first dance. “Rebecca begged me for one more story before I left.”
Their daughter was four, and she loved nothing more than to listen to her father read to her. Christopher, who was just two, wasn’t yet able to remain awake for an entire story, but the time would come.
“And you couldn’t refuse,” Nora said, smiling up at him as they approached her in-laws, who were forming the line for the dance.
“Who can refuse those beautiful hazel eyes? She is the image of her mother, and since I’d do anything for you, it follows that I would do anything for Becky.”
Nora took up her place across from him, and the music started. “Can you believe it was five years ago that we met?”
“Yes and no. It seems like it was just yesterday, and yet I can barely remember my life before you came into it.”
When it was their turn, he repeated the move he’d done during their first dance, circling her and gliding his hand along her waist. His touch was firmer this time and lingered far longer.
She looked into his beloved eyes. “I think I might’ve fallen in love with you during that dance.”
“That’s precisely when it happened for me,” he said. “From that moment on, I was a different man. Just look at all the events I went to for the first time in years—just so I could be with you.”
She laughed softly. “Yes. It was rather telling in retrospect.”
They reached the end of the line, and he lifted her hand to his lips. “Thank you for giving me a life I love.”
She smiled up at him, love bursting in her chest. He’d given her a life she’d never imagined and a love for all time.
The end
