Playing Miss Innocent - Amicia Bianchi (story read aloud TXT) 📗

wed. I’d wanted to be left alone but because of the circumstances I would do what could for my family, no matter who it was, that’s what I’d told myself. Until I’d been informed that I was to be the duke of Kensington’s wife.

 

It was then that I began to feel hope that it would be okay. At least I knew of him, that way he didn’t seem like a stranger to me and I felt that I knew he was a good person. At the very least we could be friends and if he tired of me he would leave me be.

 

I’d heard he lived with his brother but it'd never bothered me, it was something I was willing to adjust to. The same way I knew that I’d have to adapt to my new life as duchess and get used to my siblings not being there but as I stood there before the minister with only Gabriel’s valet, Samuel, and Mary as witnesses it was a wonder I was able to recite my vows without faltering.

 

I was starting fresh, where no one knew me and right then I made a vow to myself that life here would be what I made of it. Before I knew it the ceremony was over and my husband having removed my veil was leaning down for a kiss taking me by surprise but as I started to give in to his kiss he pulled away. Not thinking I reached for him and he chuckled softly.

 

“Later,” he murmured in my ear.

 

The words had caressed my very being and my body shivered because of the meaning behind his words. His lips curled into a satisfied smile as he guided me out of the church.

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