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Angel shook his arrogant dark head in wonder to work at being married to you because you are so stubbornly determined to think the worst of me’

‘That’s not true’

‘You don’t trustfor the roof to fall in! I used to think that was cute but now I’nise that, even though I’vethe way, I do love you,’ he completed almost defiantly

Merry stared at him in astonishment ‘You don’t’

‘Even when you’re wearing the bunny pyjael assured her with confidence ‘I didn’t recognise it as love until after ereabout you, I’ and everything feels good because you’re there besidefeels off and I feel weirdly lonely…’

Merry’s lower lip parted company with her upper and she stared at him in wide-eyed consternation

‘And the ht you lovedon you,’ Angel adht that for the first time in my life I was loved for who I was, not for what I can do or buy or provide You know I’ my way in this family set-up’

‘You’re not the only one Yesterday I discovered that Sybil is not e ‘That’s another reason why I was so upset and over the top with you yesterday I was already all shaken up My mother was adopted by Sybil’s parents and only learned the truth when she was eighteen Oh, neverout that Sybil and Natalie had been keeping all that froht, I do love you,’ she coetically ‘I have alot attached regardless of common sense’

Angel rested his hands down on her taut shoulders ‘We had an electric connection from the first day Somehoeaway fro in a sort of fog of denial that everything had changed and that I wanted the sort of relationship that I had never trusted or experienced with a woman’

‘And I let you down,’ she whispered guiltily ‘I did think the worst at the first sign of trouble I wasn’t strong and sensible the way I should have been’

‘It’s sort of co that your common sense leaves you when you’re upset When I arrived and saw you’d been crying, obviously upset, it gave me hope that you did care’

‘I’ll always care,’ shefingers

‘I’ve never trusted love I know my father cares about rew beyond the cute baby stage,’ he confided ‘What you said about Sybil and your ape mou You may not have known the whole story but you were always loved That’s a blessing It’s much harder to love without that experience and the confidence it gives you’

Merry stretched up to hi in theHe caught her chin in his fingers and tipped up her ency

‘You taste so good,’ he ground out, walking her back towards the bed with single- it’

‘How did you guess how I felt?’ Merry pressed ‘I thought I was hiding it’

‘You put up with all my unreasonable demands and still smiled at me I didn’t deserve it so there had to be so so tolerant and so you to see if you’d crack’