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Because of the vow he’d ht on a road much like this one

Later, he would blame it on the darkness when he told her the truth "I want to lookhe ever wanted"

The line ends with me

How many times had he written the words to his father? How many times had he said them to himself? And someho, they ached in a way they hadn’t for years

"I’m sorry," she said, softly

He didn’t want her pity He drank again Offering her the bottle, he asked, "Do your parents love each other?"

"Oh, quite desperately," she said, taking the wine She looked to the basket on the floor "Is there a glass?" He shook his head and she wiped the top of the bottle with her skirts For a reat deal more than share a wine bottle, but he refrained when she resu "My father is crass and disinterested in anything but coal, and er to be accepted by Society One without the other, however--it would not be possible That is why ht have"

Happiness

He heard the ithout her speaking it

"Except Seraphinashe’s different"

"She caught a duke," he reoal"

Sophie shook her head and passed the wine back "I will never understand what happened Sera,for love"

"And you?" He didn’t knohy he asked It didn’t ain "That’s part of the freedoined anything as freeing as love ht "I hope to experience it, of course All the bits and pieces"

"With your baker" He disliked the taste of the words

She did not hesitate "In our bookshop, gifted to us by a losing marquess, as positively obsequious with his compliments"

The words made him chuckle "Do not count your books before they are shelved,moment before he added, "It is not the stuff of poe?"

"Love Make noto do with freedom" Her focus snapped to hi trap there is"

Surprise flashed in her eyes He was surprised hi such a thing?

"And you would know?" she asked

"I would, as a ht was addling hiht the Dukes of Lyne did not marry for love"

"I am not married, a on a shocked whisper "With Marcella?"

"Who is Marcella?"

"Lady Marcella Latham"

"Ah" Memory returned Lady Marcella from the Liverpool party "No"

She scowled at him then "You really should re worthy of ruination had happened between Lady Marcella and me, I would remember her"

"You escaped her via rose trellis!"

"Precisely as she asked hly doubt that’s the case"