Chapter 73

The next few days passed quickly. They spent every possible moment they could together when he was not working and she was not starting her new sketches or paintings for her current commission. They ate, bathed and slept together every night. Whether at the cottage or the manor.

She already loved bubble baths, but using the grand-sized bath in his mother’s old suite and luxuriating with him was absolute heaven. Of course, it always led to other things, usually midway through, but at least it was clean fun.

She had even spent time in the pool alone with him, locking the main door in case anyone came down and taking delight in getting her naked and breathless in both the pool and the sauna. He was even more lust fuelled now that she was no longer a secret than the previous early days. Something she had not thought possible or had predicted.

She was beginning to see a side to him that was irresistible. Instead of the dark looks and stress of their earlier relationshi