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His dark eyes met hers, his handso what she’d co” face, there was an unaze

He put his hand out toward her The white-glove-covered appendage hung there, an unexpected beacon He wasn’t supposed to take her hand yet; he wasn’t supposed to touch her at all They had been instructed to enter the carriage separately She was to sit with her back toward the driver and he was to face the people on the slow procession to the Orthodox cathedral

According to the wedding coordinator and royal tradition, she and Deertips until the priest proclaimed them man and wife

So this one gesture spoke voluness to put Chanel ahead of protocol

Without warning, theChanel fell away, the world coh it was early fall, the sun shone bright in the sky, the air around them crisp with autumn chill and filled with a cacophony of voices fro the palace drive that were suddenly loud

Love for De aside worry and doubt to fill her with a certainty that drove her forward toward the hand held out to her

Their fingers touched, his curling possessively and decisively around her cold ones He tugged her forward even as electric current arced between thelove

Devastating e the last of the strange, surreal sensations that had plagued her since waking

His eyes flared and then he was pulling off the cape froasps sounded around the that Chanel had no doubt was a protest

She couldn’t hear hi ue that she wasn’t really cold, because it carried the fragrance of De her feel embraced by him

He helped her into the open landau carriage, further eschewing protocol to sit beside her

Caistered, none of it really i her hand and looking at her with quietly banked joy

“It’s just you andat last

“Yes”

He didn’t relate to her as a prince, though he was undeniably that Demyan related to her as the man anted to share his life with her