Those who
tried to follow were met with such a murderous glare.....
Sitting beside her in the gentle moonlight, he had felt such concern.
And when she came back to herself, when she opened her eyes and saw
him she said simply, to his astonishment:
"You know that I love you."
Knowing nothing else he embraced her gently, with such a surge of
tender emotion that for a time he did not know himself. The past fell
away. The future as he had planned it turned cold and barren in his
sight. Without so much as knowing her name, or even believing in the
possibility, he knew that he had found the love of his life.
There were many obstacles, not the least of which was Earl Arthur
himself, her uncle and guardian, who violently opposed their union.
But the newly empowered Lord Purceville was obsessed, and let nothing
stand in his way, until they were man and wife.
He remembered their wedding night, Angelica beside him in the moonlit
bed. Her virgin's blood ran softly, like a benediction, as he wept the
only real tears of his life. The world lay gentle and loving in his
arms, knowing him as even he did not.
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