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Just this one time to be with him. This one time to love him, fully and completely. This one time to grasp a life’s worth of happiness.

“Love me, Griffydd,” she pleaded fervently. “Love me now. Tonight.”

“We will be married,” he promised as he reached out for her.

She smiled at this honorable man who would not take what she was offering without some kind of promise between them.

“I will always be yours,” she replied softly, and truthfully, hoping it would be enough.

It had to be, for there was no more she could say.

“I love you with all my heart, wife-to-be,” he murmured, pressing feather-light kisses upon her forehead and cheeks. “I am yours forever.”

“Shh,” she hushed, afraid that if he called her “wife” again she would start to weep. “Later. We will speak of these things later.”

Even though she knew full well that there could be no later for them.

All they would ever have was this one time.