Chapter SevenKyla found it impossible to sleep.
Having drawn back the curtains, she lay watching the stars gradually fading from sight.
She was feeling extremely apprehensive of what tomorrow would bring.
At the same time she felt confident that the Earl would manage to cope with whatever horrors her stepmother had planned for them.
‘He is so strong and – so kind,’ she told herself.
She remembered how, when he had kissed her hand, she had felt a strange feeling within her breasts.
It was something that she had never known before in her life.
Even to think of it brought the feeling back to her again and again.
She wondered why he seemed so different from any other men she had ever met.
It then struck her, and it was a surprise, that perhaps she was falling in love.
It was such a s
