As he pushed her shirt down off her back and she shook her hair to free it where it had become caugt in the collar, he ceased cursing himself and smiled.As he pushed her shirt down off her back and she shook her hair to free it where it had become caugt in the collar, he ceased cursing himself and smiled. He took her cheeks in his hands, lifted her mouth slightly, and kissed her. And then he laughed. "Sir?" "Oh, Aimee', what I have been thinking in the past few minutes is just not fit. Are you ready to share the weaknesses of an old man?" "If they are yours, sir, I will always be ready." "Very well." He rose and slowly led her to the bedside, encouraging her to get in. She lay down on the covers and, together, they worked off her breeches. "Aimee', I have been considering what a fool I have been for denying myself the special kind of magic that happens not between two men, but between a man and a woman. And then I realized how few people ever learn of the love between man and woman, even when they are made to learn that." He shook his head. "You are the first woman I have loved since my mother, and you may be the last. It is not... It is not that I have discovered women, Aimee'. It is just that I have discovered you." She smiled and reached up, pulling him down beside her. |