CHAPTER FIVESacha awoke and knew that she had not only dreamt of the Duke but had thought of him for a very long time before she actually fell asleep.
Her whole body had seemed to come alive with the wonder of his kiss and she knew that now she had found love it was even more wonderful, more ecstatic and more sacred than she had ever imagined.
Her mind seemed to be reaching out towards the sky and she realised that incredibly, although it was difficult to believe it, she had given him her heart and soul,
‘How can I have been so foolish and so absurd?’ she asked herself, ‘when he belongs to Deirdre?’
Then it was an additional and unexpected agony to remember that to Deirdre he was just a Duke and not the man she loved.
‘I love – him! I – love him!’ Sacha said to herself over and over a
