The Shocking Secret of a Guest at the Wedding (Millworth Manor)
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She choked back a sob. “Yes.”
“Good Lord, Theodosia, we’ve wasted a lot of time.” In one quick move he pulled her into his arms, crushing her against his chest. His letters fell from her hand. “Once again, Teddy, marry me. Share my adventure, share my life. Seize the day.”
“No.”
“No?” He stared in disbelief.
“I couldn’t possibly accept that proposal.” She scoffed.
“Why in the name of all that’s holy not?” His brows drew together. “You followed me across the world. You tracked me down in the desert. What do you want?”
“Well, you called me Teddy, as you did the last time you asked me to marry you, but you’ve always preferred Theodosia and I must say I like—”
Without warning his lips claimed her, her words smothered in a kiss determined and filled with magic and entirely too long in coming.
Jack raised his head. “I warn you, Theodosia Winslow, as that is the only way I have ever found to shut you up, I intend to do it frequently.” He grinned down at her with that infectious smile that lingered forever in her soul. “And with a great deal of enthusiasm.”
“Goodness, Jack.” She smiled up at him and wondered that her heart didn’t burst with the joy of at last being back in his arms. Now and for the rest of their days. “I would expect nothing less.”
In his later years, when Jackson Quincy Graham Channing reflected back upon his life he marveled at the twist of fate that had turned a banker, whose entire life had been planned and laid out for him, into a man who relished the adventure to be found in the unknown and the unexpected. And marveled as well at the stubborn, independent woman of business he had found to share that life.
The woman who was his first adventure.
And his greatest.
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