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She bit the inside of her lower lip “Marriage scares me”

“I won’t settle for less, Faith I want the world to know you’re mine”

“And that you’re mine?”

“I am yours, Faith Completely and irrevocably I’ll never leave you Trust me”

Heart slae, she wrapped her ar him close “It’s not as if I really have a choice, is it? Now that you’ve made up your mind you want to marry me, you won’t stop till I say yes”

“We Wakefields always get ant”

She sic this ht into her life “You do realize that if we marry, I’ll be a Wakefield, too?”

He looked at her with pure unadulterated love reflecting in his eyes “And what is it you want, Faith? Because I’ll give you anything within my power”

“You”

“You have me Always and for ever”

They dressed slowly—so slowly they ended up undressed again rather than clothed

This ti into her eyes with each thrust of his body into hers Deeper and deeper until he was so tangled with her she didn’t knohere she ended and he began

Her breaths caed pants Her heart beat thudded in arrhythed with his

When he ca him in her body, stunned by what they’d shared

Stunned by how loved she felt