Page 26 of Seducing the Spinster

“Thank you,” he whispered. “You’re absolutely right. All I can do is tell him how very sorry I am and hope that he is as willing to forgive me as you have been.”

“You are a good man, Julian,” she murmured, pressing her lips tenderly to the curve of his throat, sending a shaft of pure heat through him. “Once he gets to know you again, I’m sure he’ll love you as much as I do.”

He closed his eyes briefly, treasuring the moment, and then laughed and stepped back. “I’ll write to him tonight,” he assured her. “And then we’ll just have to wait and see what happens.”

She gestured around the room. “No matter what happens, you have a lot of people who love you.”

He nodded. He’d made many mistakes in his life, but he still had good friends and a good woman to love. “I’m a very lucky man.”

She cast a quick glance around to make sure no one was watching them, then gave him a look filled with heated promise. “I’ll leave my bedroom window open tonight, if you’d like to be even luckier.”

He laughed heartily and hugged her again. His little spinster had finally become the passionate woman he’d always known she could be.

The End