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Beth giggled 'Not for ages Everyone's enjoying them¬selves too much I think they're here for the duration!'

'Then we'll have to oodbyes and leave them to it'

'We can't' Beth was genuinely shocked "What will people think?'

'That I can't wait to have you to ht,' Travis answered drily 'Co'

Sandra and Travis'sthe wedding due to pressure of business,at the house taking care of all the dogs until they returned fro in Italy Travis had reserved the honey¬ht to Italy the nextthe palht,' Beth whispered This would be their first tiether and she wanted hinificance

The night the puppies had been born she had shyly offered to accompany hi her slightly away from him, as he'd said, 'Thank you for your love and trust in , and I want you ht I won't pretend I haven't had women, Beth, but you know that But you're different, this is different The rest of your life starts now and it's going to start right I want you for my wife, the mother of my children, and that sets you apart Do you under¬stand what I' for'

She had nodded, faintly bewildered nonetheless

'Having said that, oes so far,' Travis had continued wryly 'This will be a short engageement'

They drove away fro caught the bouquet Beth threw froether in the back of the car, then-hands entwined The evening shadoere long and a soft scented darkness enveloped the world outside the cab but Beth was conscious only of her husband and what he —her sun, moon and stars

Travis had said this was the start of the rest of their lives and she believed that All that had gone before—Keith, her first e, the disaster it had become—was in the past The future was theirs, to ood Very good

When they stepped out of the taxi cab the fragrance of wood smoke was lazy in the warm autumn air; the sky was velvet, pierced with stars and flooded with palestillness pervaded the perfect night, ti as the sound of the car faded away

Travis stood with his arm round her waist, his head lifted to the harvest hts like this,' he ht enfolded therown up and gone and it's just the two of us again, I'll reht I'll tell you how beautiful you are and how much I love you, what a lucky man I am'

'And I'll tell you you savedhis chiselled face with the palm of her hand 'And that I love you more than life itself'

The honeyold, 'cha for the but each other

He undressed her slowly, relishing every long-awaited moment and she rewarded him with total surrender As her dress fell to the floor, she stepped out of it, reaching for hi in the expression on his face "I want you to make love to me,' she told him very seriously'I've wanted it from the first time we met'

Travis s e've been of the same mind?' he drawled softly

In the briefest moment of time the world faded away and they let their bodies speak for thereedily Travis ripped off his own clothes, Beth's fingers clumsy and feverish as she helped hi in the scent and feel of each other as they swayed together in the middle of the opulent room

Letting her body speak for her, Beth asps as his mouth trailed from her throat to the rounded fullness of her breasts He was already hugely aroused but the a control she had sensed more than once held, his mind and body alert as he nipped and caressed and tasted her until she lost the last remnants of restraint

Drawing her over to the huge bed, he urged her down a the scented sheets and pillows and continued the sensual onslaught,such words of love and passion that she didn't try to hide the fulfillment she so desperately wanted But still he didn't take her, kissing every part of her and creating such a raw and pri the last shred of his constraint