Chapter SevenThe Duc raised his head and looked down at Celita.
She was staring up at him, her eyes radiant with an expression in them he had not seen before.
Then, as if he could not help himself, he asked in a strangely deep voice,
“How can you do this to me?”
Then he was kissing her again.
Kissing her until Celita felt that they were flying in the sky and her feet were no longer on earth.
She could not believe it was true that the Duc was kissing her!
He evoked in her feelings that she had never known before, but which she knew were love.
Only, when once again his lips left hers, did she say as if she could not help herself.
“I – love – you!”
“And I love you, Celita,” the Duc breathed. “I have loved you since the first moment I saw you, but I realised that you did not love me.
