She was breathless as he asked in an unsteady deep voice,
“How can you do this to me?”
“Do – what?” she whispered.
“Make me feel as I believed I would never feel about any woman. It means, my darling, that I am very much in love with you!”
“Is – that true?” Alina asked. “Can it be – true? How can – you love me?”
Lord Teverton smiled.
“Very easily and I promise you, my precious, that if we feel as we do now, this is only the very beginning.”
He saw the question in her eyes and said,
“I am asking you now, my darling, how soon you will marry me?”
Alina felt her heart turn a dozen somersaults before she managed to say,
“Are you – are you really – asking me to – be your wife?”
“As quickly as possible,” Lord Teverton replied.
He thought as he spoke that he had never seen a woman look
