Chapter 49

• CHAPTER FOURTY NINE
• Pleasure in her appearance, yes. Also a flash of triumphant satisfaction, possibly in having carried through what he’d decided was right, even to holding off having any intimate connection with her until their wedding night. But mostly, she saw a simmering desire, revelling in the promise that she was his, to have and to hold from this day forth.
• Sweet relief. At least he did want sex with her. At least they had this attraction to each other.