“What details would those be, sir?”
His eyes held hers with all the power of a brilliantly accomplished mesmerist. “The most pressing matter at the moment is that I am in love with you, Mrs. Lake.”
She thought at first that she had misunderstood him. Her second thought was that her imagination had run wild. And then a glorious sense of happiness blossomed deep inside her. He was, she thought, the only man she had ever met who could truly entrance her.
She slid her arms around his neck. “This is an extremely fortunate turn of events, Mr. March. Because I seem to have fallen in love with you too.”
He smiled slowly, deepening the enchantment without saying a single word.
“It will not be easy, you know,” she said a trifle anxiously. “I mean, we do tend to quarrel a lot and the business aspect complicates things and I expect there will be any number of problems in the future-”
He put his fingertips against her mouth, silencing her. And then he smiled again.
“You and I never do things the easy way,” he said.
And then he kissed her.
The advertisement could wait, she thought. Some things were vastly more important.