Our Lizzie
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That night, as Lizzie got ready for bed, she lost some of her sparkle. “I—I’d better warn you,” she confessed breathlessly as Peter limped in from the bathroom, “I’m not very good at it.”
“Good at what?”
She gestured to the bed. “At—you know, making a man happy.”
“You make me happy just by being yourself.”
“That’s a lovely thing to say, but—”
He stopped her words with a kiss and when it was over, laid her down on the bed and said very solemnly, “It takes two people to make love, Lizzie, not one. Let me show you.”
Hours later, she was still awake, happily watching the moonlight trace its way across the room. Peter was right. It did take two people. And when it was done with such tenderness, making love was wonderful.
The last of her worries died away, the fear that she was unnatural. Sighing happily, she slid an arm round his waist and snuggled down to sleep. She was sure—very, very sure—that her life would be happy from now on. She would make it happy!
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First published in Great Britain by Hodder and Stoughton, a Division of Hodder Headline PLC, in 1999.
First U.S. Edition: July 2003
eISBN 9781466882317
First eBook edition: August 2014