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"You seemed so sure it was the right thing to do before, what's changed."
"I guess, I didn't really want to force you into this. I feel I have. I had no right."
He came closer and pulled her chin up so he could stare into her beautiful blue eyes. "You have every right, you're my wife. A woman should never doubt where her husband's loyalties lie."
"Lance, I wasn't your choice, I was your mistake."
"You," he lifted her chin and stared into her tear stained eyes, "Were never a mistake."
Slowly her head raised to look into the warmth of his stare, "Legally, yes, I’m your wife. But she was your choice."
He backed away a bit and thought about that a moment. "I've thought about that day a lot. But there's one conclusion I'm sure of."
"Oh, what's that?" she asked breathlessly.
"Strange as it might seem, I picked the right lady." He said softly, his glance sliding over her thoroughly.
"I was a big mistake… " She said breathless from his stare. "And you were right, I should have thrown a fit, made a scene."
"Why didn't you?" he held her chin, massaging her there with a thumb. "You sure don't feel like the wrong choice when you kiss me. It can't be so wrong, when it feels so right." He kissed her with a fire she hadn't expected, and she lost herself in that kiss. She answered his lips with her own. And he was right, it felt so right to her too.
"God lady, I want you. I want you so bad I could pick you up and carry you to my bed and make you mine once and for all. That would settle it! Once you are mine, no one will change it."
"Lance I—" the need grew every moment between them stood still. "Oh Lance… "
"I don't want you until you are ready." He turned away and walked toward the back-kitchen door. He stared out at the storm that was raging. It was like the storm in his heart. "When the time comes, and it will come, there will be no more doubts. I'm rushing you again. I rushed you to the church and now I want to rush you to my bed. These few days we've had together have been the best of my life. But time itself seems to come between us." He turned to glance at her, seeing her eyes glisten, her limbs trembling, her brea
thlessness. "I'm going to Boston, to settle this once and for all. Then I'll finish the cattle drive and come home to the wife I fell in love with."
"Oh, why do you have to say such sweet things… " She gasped. "I'll miss you terribly." She cried.
"God, I hope so, because I'll miss you too, sweetheart. But after six months apart, if you don't miss me, or love me, I'll give you an annulment."
She stood there almost shaking. "Lance I can't say what I feel yet. It's you that isn't free."
"I know. But if you're there, where I showed you in six months, you'll be mine for the rest of your life. Understand?"
She nodded very slowly, "Y-yes!"
"Do you understand what I'm saying? I'm saying we are married and we're going to make it work."
"I want you to be sure, with no doubts."
"You just can't get it through that hard head of yours, that I don't have any doubts. But I guess it is hard to realize a man can be with someone a few days and fall as hard as I have."
She gasped, and the urge to run into his arms had her whole body reacting to him.
"You really do rush a woman… "
"I know, but we Rogers' men, know our minds and our hearts quickly. It's inherited."
"Lance, I respect and trust you, but you are impulsive."
"I've got to go check the barn and see if everything is tied down, this wind is picking up." He told her.
She nodded quietly and watched him walk off.
Chapter Fourteen
