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Vicky glanced down and said, “I think she feels there is.”

“Perhaps. I told her about not believing in true love ages ago and I think she saw me as some sort of challenge. A girl like her doesn't have to try too hard with her men. I made a change. But it was beginning to get on my nerves, especially when she interrupted our dinner last night and I was going to tell her about it. But it was difficult when she was also a client of the stables. Enough about Lucinda. It's us I'm interested in. Vicky, answer me. Will you marry me?”

She laughed and standing up, pulled him after her in the direction of her office.

“You'll have to ask Frank,” she said, enjoying first his look of bewilderment and then the flash of jealousy.

“Frank? Who the hell is Frank?” he asked as she pushed open the door of her office.

“Marcus meet Frank, my yucca tree. Love me, love my plant.”

They both laughed and his arms circled her waist once more. He kissed her and she responded freely, wrapping her arms around his neck and kissing him back, relishing the delight of his touch. When they finally pulled apart, she gazed into his laughing blue eyes and thought how blind she must have been. He'd loved her—not Lucinda. She'd always thought herself to be a bad judge of character. Now she knew she was just plain hopeless.

“Well, I'm waiting. Will one of you please give me an answer?”

Laughing, she realised her dreams had all come true.

“Oh yes, Marcus. Yes, yes, yes.”

He pulled her to him, kissing her firmly. A delicious thrill coursed through her. When finally he moved away he asked, “Didn't you ever guess how much I wanted you before? How much I longed to hold you, kiss you, love you? I tried telling you last night.”

She shook her head. “I didn't even think you liked me very much.”

He smiled. “But it was always you who pushed me away every time I kissed you, tried to get close.”

“I promise I'll never push you away again,” she said, brushing her fingertips lightly across his cheek.

“I want to shout it out loud. Tell everyone how much I love you,” he said.

Smiling, she answered, “That's not bad coming from a man who only confessed to me quite recently that he didn't believe in love.”

He gazed at her and said, slowly, “Oh, but I didn't, Vicky. Not until the very day I first met you.”

About the Author

Tess Niland Kimber has always loved writing and has created stories from when she was just 9. Born on the Isle of Wight, a small island off the coast of southern England, she now also lives in West Sussex so the eldest of her three children can attend a Special School.

Lucky enough to write full-time, Tess regularly sells short stories, serials and articles to all the major UK women's magazines and also to numerous publications in South Africa, Australia and Sweden. To date she has sold almost 200 stories and is an international, prize-winning author. Tess loves turning an idea into a sale and it is her dream to write best-selling novels.

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Lovelink

Copyright © 2015 by Tess Niland Kimber

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