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“I know,” he said as he tucked a stray strand of hair behind her ear, “you keep telling me. How about you marry me and not love me for the rest of my life?”

He watched her breath catch in her throat.

“But I really don’t,” she said as her eyes flicked to his lips.

“It’s okay. I love you enough to make up the short fall until you do.”

He traced a finger along her jaw, watching her shiver. Mine, he thought.

“You can’t marry someone if you don’t love them,” she said on a sigh, “but my dad would be really angry if we were to live in sin.”

He kissed her cheek gently.

“He is with the clergy,” Jack said.

Davina nodded. “It would ruin his reputation.”

“Well, then we can’t live in sin, can we?”

He gently traced kisses round to her ear.

“No, we can’t,” she said as her fingers twisted into the front of his T-shirt.

“Maybe you can learn to love me,” he said as he ran his tongue over her earlobe.

Her knees went weak. He wrapped an arm around her to hold her firm to him.

“I suppose I can try,” she said breathlessly.

Jack grinned as he kissed down her neck to the spot on her shoulder that he loved.

“That’s very big of you,” he told her.

“Jack?”

“Yeah.” He was beginning to lose the point of the conversation.

Oh yeah, he was going to marry Davy. She’d drive him insane, but he was damn well going to do it anyway.

“Can we make training films?”

Huh? He leaned back from her. She smiled and batted her false eyelashes at him. She wanted to make another movie.

“You know, to help people learn. Educational movies.” Her eyes were beginning to glaze over at the thought of it.

“Only if we keep it legal this time,” he told her.

“Oh, absolutely,” she said, all wide-eyed and earnest.

“Okay, we’ll make training videos.”

“Movies.”

“Whatever.”

She took a deep breath.

“In that case...” she said. “It’s a yes.”