To Love a Horseguard (21 page)

“Ready?”

When she nodded he helped her to her feet and led her down the hallway to one of the bedrooms. Dimitry was sitting on the edge of a narrow cot, a physician bending over him, wrapping a white bandage around his shoulder.

He looked up at her. “I am all right, flower. Come here.”

Rose ran the few feet to the cot. Dimitry pulled her into his good shoulder and held her close. “Are you unharmed?”

“Yes,” she murmured against his shoulder, “but you are not.”

He chuckled. “It would take more than a little bullet wound to stop me, flower.”

The tsar entered the room. When Dimitry began to stand the ruler held up his hand. “No need to get up. I have come to thank you for saving my life.”

“It was not me, Your E
xcellency. It was Rose who pushed me into you. She saw whoever it was that tried to shoot you.”

The tsar took Rose’s hand and kissed it. “Then I shall be forever in your debt.” 

“There is no need to thank me, Your Excellency.” She bowed her head.

“Nonsense, loyalty like yours should be rewarded. There must be something you would have me do?”

Rose glanced at Dimitry. “I would consider it a great honor if you were to agree to become our child’s godfather.”

Di
mitry stared at her. “Are you saying we are going to have a baby?”

Rose nodded, “I found out just this morning.”

The tsar beamed. “By all means, yes! I can think of no greater honor than to be the godfather to your first born.”

A group of soldiers entered the room with Din
ah between them. The maid glared at Rose with hatred. “You—I should have told Sergi who you were on the ship. If it wasn’t for you and your horse soldier, Sergi would be the ruler of Russia and my child would be the heir to the throne!”

Rose looked down at Dinah’s swollen belly. “I am sorry for you, Dinah.”

“Take her away,” the tsar bellowed.

Dimitry cradled
Rose against his shoulder and placed a kiss on the top her head. “Do not feel too sorry for her Rose, she cast her net upon the water. What she brings into her own boat is her burden to bear.”

Rose nodded. “Something good did come of all her deception—I would never have met you.”

She sighed. Never in her life could she remember being so happy. 

Dimitry smiled at her, his eyes shining with love. “Until you tumbled down that hill into my life I was so empty, now I am so full I feel about to burst at the seams.”

Rose laughed. “I was just thinking the same thing.” 

“Will you be my lady?”

She looked into his eyes and smiled. “To love a Horseguard will be my greatest honor and my easiest challenge.”

T
he End

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Killarney is an award winning romance author from the rustic Canadian prairies. She lives on a cattle ranch with her five kids. When she is not penning historical romantic adventures she fills her time with her Thoroughbred stallion 'Stamp de Gold', whom she affectionately calls 'Love Monkey', and her herd of AQHA mares.

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