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“No, but we can certainly control our future together, Anne And I’ve made quite a decision for that future, love”

“And what is that?” she retorted haughtily

“Colby?” he called to the driver, who smiled as he checked on each of his horses in turn

“Yes m’lord?” the cheery man pipped up

“How far do you think the nearest church is froe to rouse the priest from his slulee

“It’s quite a ways,any priests,” Colby remarked “But I doubt that’d stop you, would it?”

“You’re absolutely correct on that,” Lawrence answered, lost in Anne’s eyes, and she in his

Epilogue

“Do you miss your father sometimes, love?”

Lord Strauss, now Viscount of Roxborough in addition to his title as duke of Amhurst, relaxed lazily upon a plush sofa in the manor he and his wife, the lovely Anne Hatley-Strauss, Viscountess of Roxborough, inherited from her dear father after he passed He saw only a few seasonsto the man she had so co father had lived those seasons in bliss, seeing his daughter so full of life - andher truly free

“What has you thinking about hi?” the viscountess queried with a tilted head and a warainst hihts of her childhood sneaking about and reading father’s library of books, bathed in a cal in the fireplace “Have you got the estate’s affairs on the ain, as you so often do?”