Then she told herself she had to be firm and that however much she loved him she could not let him become involved in the terror that had stalked her these last years, culminating in her mother’s death.
‘I have to go away and leave him,’ she told herself and felt her whole body cry out at the agony of it.
Because the groom could hear what was said they did not talk, but Warren drove as quickly as he could back through the wood, into the Park and down the drive.
He did not take Nadia to his mother’s house, but to Buckwood.
He did so deliberately because he felt that already she belonged there and that was where they should decide their future.
He determined to make quite certain that they would be together and she would be his wife.
He drew up alongside the stone steps and then sprang
