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Adam dismounted outside the village of Hemsley and took a moment to stretch his legs as he made his way to the office of his steward, Henry Walpole. It gave him a moment to once again reflect upon the new direction his life had taken.
I’m married.
He smiled at the memory of Letty standing beside him at the altar. She’d looked so dazed, as dazed as he’d felt on the inside, that he’d felt compelled to flash her a wink to get her to smile. Then he’d lost his control in the coach on the way back to Chilgrave, but knowing she was his, finally, a bride of his own—he’d gone a bit mad to kiss her and hold her. Then he’d seen the way she’d responded to his more commanding side, the way she’d let him give chase to her, and how her pulse had beat and her eyes had been wide and full of an excitem
