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What was she going to do? What did she want to do?

“Rose?”

She heard him coming up behind her. Quickly she sucked in several breaths of cool night air.

His fingers touched the back of her neck and she wilted inside.

“I know this is very sudden for you,” he murmured. “But please don’t say no.”

Her throat grew tighter. “Just what sort of marriage would this be?”

“What do you mean?”

She glanced over her shoulder at him. He was such a strong, handsome man. A man made to love a woman. He didn’t need her for a wife. He needed someone who would be not only a companion and friend, but also his lover. If he didn’t realize that, she certainly did.

“I mean—” Oh, how could she do this? She turned to face him. “Are you expecting us…to have a sexual relationship?”