by Penny Jordan
EPILOGUE
‘YOU SEE—I TOLD YOU that you are a Freeman, and nothing like your mother,’ Giselle’s great-aunt announced six months later, as she stood proudly holding her great-great-nephew outside Arezzio’s cathedral for a formal christening photograph.
Giselle laughed, unable to resist smiling down into her son’s face as he held out his hand to her. It seemed impossible now to imagine that she had ever thought she might harm her own child, or suffer from the same devastating illness that had struck down her mother. Motherhood for her was the crowning jewel in her happiness—a true joy and delight that had enriched the love she and Saul shared and fulfilled her. Although she hadn’t as yet said anything to Saul, she was already thinking about increasing their family.
‘What’s that smile for?’ Saul asked her, detaching himself from the group of ministers surrounding him to come over to her.
‘Oh, nothing,’ Giselle told him.
Saul leaned forward and said softly, ‘This nothing wouldn’t have anything to do with any plans on your part that might involve increasing the size of the nursery, would it?’
‘Saul! How did you guess—?’ She broke off, and then laughed at herself for giving the game away.
Her laughter was silenced by Saul’s brief but fiercely passionate kiss.
‘I know you, and I love you, which is why I knew all along that our son would have the best mother in the world.’
She was so lucky. So incredibly, wonderfully, blessed and lucky. And she knew it. She would never cease giving thanks for all that she had. She would never stop counting her blessings.
ISBN: 978-1-4268-8459-7
GISELLE’S CHOICE
First North American Publication 2011
Copyright © 2010 by Penny Jordan
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