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‘In private?’ Luc started to frown

‘Look over there at Luc and Belle,’ Luc’s ht of her son’s frowning face

‘Just when I thought that the pair of the on so well I suppose I should have known it was too good to be true And to think I’d actually begun to hope…’ She shook her head ruefully ‘They always see…’

‘Leave theently

‘In private,’ Luc repeated with concern

‘Mmm…’ Belle responded dreamily

Belle’s face was slightly flushed and Luc could al up inside her Her eyes, when he looked down into them, shone with barely concealed happiness Sofrom her She looked, Luc decided wryly, buoyed up with a secret—and with love

‘It must have been a very special call—and a very special caller’ Luc couldn’t resist challenging her

Belle’s smile deepened, and so did her pretty pink colour

‘It was,’ she admitted candidly

‘Belle, quick She’s leaving Here…’

A handful of rose petals were pushed into Belle’s hand by her mother, to shower onto the bride Obediently, Belle turned her attention away from Luc and towards her niece and her new husband

‘Belle looks wonderful, doesn’t she?’ one of Belle’s female cousins commented to another

‘Positively glowing…’

Belle, who had overheard their co to Luc and reht have been a more appropriate description—under the circumstances Doubly so, in view of the fact…’ She added mock coyly

She stopped and waited for the penny to drop

‘My call was froery,’ she added helpfully, her own face breaking into a wide grin of excited happiness as she saw the enlightenment dawn in Luc’s eyes

‘It’s quite definitely twins,’ she told him breathlessly

‘Twins… Two babies…’ Luc gazed at her in adoring awe

‘Yes, twins does ue in cheek

She had had her suspicions for a while that she ht herself a honancy test But Luc had been away at the time, and in the end, she had wanted him to be there to share the moment with her After all, he had been there—very reed that this ti to share their lives as true partners, true lovers

Luc had been with her when she had first been told that shetwins, and today’s phone call was the formal confiriven

‘Luc—Luc, stop it,’ Belle protested as Luc suddenly wrapped her in his ar to kiss her

‘Luc, people are watching us,’ Belle protested huskily beneath his mouth ‘Luc… Luc… Mmm… Mmm…’

‘Let them watch,’ Luc whispered back hoarsely

Around theuests as they turned away fro bridal car to stare at Belle and Luc

‘I think we’d better tell thely ‘Otherwise, if we don’t…’

His hand covered her still flat stoh she knew technically it was is they had created with their love were kicking their assent to their father’s suggestion

‘Well, they’re going to have to know solanced down at her body ‘But a lot of theht not approve,’ she warned him ‘After all, it’s not exactly conventional’

‘We have the right to live our lives the ant to live theued softly

And then, still holding her in the protective circle of his arentlemen, family and friends Belle and I have an announcement to make’

As he looked down at her, Belle looked back up at hi clearly in her eyes A shaft of light touched the gold of the needding ring she had just reer—they had had itand Luc’s, a sy of the old to create new in a bond that could never be broken

Her sister saw it first, pre-e excitedly,