CHAPTER SEVENThe Duke raised his head,
“I think, my darling,” he said, “that you should go upstairs and lie down.”
“I don’t – want to leave – you,” Ilina whispered.
Her whole body was throbbing with the ecstasy of his kisses and she was half-afraid that if she left him he would disappear in a puff of smoke and she would never see him again.
It was impossible to believe that what was happening was true and that, after all he had said and the misery she had passed through, he loved her.
She looked up at him and thought it impossible for any man to be so handsome and so mesmerisingly attractive.
“I love – you, I love – you!”
He held her close to him again and breathed,
“And I love you, my beautiful adorable one, but I want you to hurry up and get well so we can be married and be toget
