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Оглавление“That was your first kiss?”
“Aye, and my last, I expect. Once I go back to St. Gabriel, the monks will keep me away from future visitors.”
“Go back! You would go back there to live in such isolation?”
“It’s all I’ve ever known,” Bridget said. “The monks are my family.”
“But you are a lovely young woman. You should be meeting young men who will court you and offer you a life and a family of your own. You should be having a real first kiss and many more.”
She smiled. “It was real enough.”
“Nay, it was not. A real kiss is not a fumbled gesture in the dark between strangers. It’s an expression two people use when their hearts are too full to express their love any other way.”
Her eyes misted. “’Tis something I’ll never have, then.”
He raised a finger and wiped a tear that had started down her cheek. “Aye, you will, angel,” he said. Then he lowered his lips to hers…
