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“Darling, if you don’t answerto keel over from the desire to hold you Love you”

She cupped his handsoled “Don’t keel over,” she said “I’ve done that, it’s not fun”

“Millie,” he growled teasingly

“Of course I’ll marry you”

He stood and the love in his eyes was ain”

“Yes, I’ll marry you,” she repeated

“Again”

“Yes, I’ll marry you”

“Louder”

She threw her head back, laughing as a great storm of joy erupted inside her “Yes!” she shouted, and then said softly, “I’ll marry you, silly”

He was laughing, too, and paused only long enough to kiss her quickly, briefly “I love you, Millie I love you”

“I love you, too” She stretched up on her toes, wanting a kiss that would last so long she’d become lost in hihts they’d shared before

“Oh, no,” he said, catching her wrists with his hands

Startled, she searched his face, looked for a teasing glint, but didn’t find one Love was in his eyes, and happiness, but seriousness, as well A stinging sensation curled around her spine “What’s wrong?”

Walking backward, he led her to the“See that building over there?”

Focusing wasn’t easy with her body throbbing so, but she scanned the area, a side street of town, full of houses and “You mean the church?”

“Yes, we are going there,” he said “Getting married, and then we’ll return here” he kissed the side of her neck “and spend some time in that bed”

A moan rumbled in her throat and desire flared inside her His tone said that ould happen in that bed would bethan it had ever been “All right,” she said “When?”

“Right now” He scooped her into his arer”