Will’s brows lifted, but he didn’t mind one bit. “I wouldn’t mind sharing a goblet of brandy with you in front of the fire, and I don’t mind you going skinny dipping at all as long as you take me with you.”
When she would have leaned into his kiss, she drew back.
“Now that I come to think about it,” she said thoughtfully, and playfully punched him on his arm when he groaned. “I have to insist on one thing.”
“Insist? On what?” He adored her so much that he was prepared to offer her the world, and agree to anything she suggested as long as it made her happy.
“I don’t want a staid and boring life. Your family’s estate is large, and a certain amount of expectation will be placed upon me as you wife and I am happy to play my part but I don’t want our life to be dull.”
“You will be under a certain amount of expectation darling, but you will also be the Lady of the house. Your job is to make the decisions for everybody else, with the Housekeeper’s help of course. So, in a way, whatever you have to sacrifice to fulfil the job of Lady of the house, you will gain because you will be in command of everything, including me and whatever children we have.”
Georgiana hadn’t ever stopped to consider marriage like that before, but he was right. It made her small sacrifice well worth the huge gain she would have by marrying such a wonderful man, who already owned her heart.
“Marrying you will be no sacrifice,” she replied. “I give you my heart willingly.”
“You have always had mine,” he replied with a rueful grin. “I just didn’t realise it. It took losing you to make me see that.”
“I promise to take care of it,” she whispered, and peppered his cheek with loving kisses.
“Will you promise me something?” He asked after several moments of very thorough loving.
“Anything,” she promised.
“Let us make a new list of adventures. One we can both complete together,” Will said.
Georgiana laughed. “As long as the first adventure on the list is marriage, then of course we can.”
“Well, the second one has to be children,” Will replied with a grin.
“Oh?” Her cheeks heated as she looked at him.
He nodded. “At least three or four.”
“That’s sounds an adventure,” she declared happily.
“It is. It is the adventure of a lifetime,” he assured her.
The End.