A Bride to Redeem Him

‘And I didn’t do this for you.’ He pulled a wry face. ‘Well, not entirely. I did it for myself. Because seeing her legacy come to fruition was something I needed to do for me. I made it one of the first things I did as the chairman of the new board of the Lefebvre Group.’

She blinked at him, then back down to the key.

‘I thought you would sell the group after all.’

‘Someone convinced me to change my mind. Someone whose opinion I respect. Someone who...I love.’

‘Love,’ the word was echoed with such awe that it scraped and teased across every inch of his body. It felt more right than he could have ever imagined to take her hands and repeat his vow to her.

‘I love you, Alexandra. You enrich my life and make me want to be a better man than I ever dreamed I could be. Marry me. Not for Rainbow House, or for the Lefebvre Group, but simply to be my wife. To spend the rest of our lives making each other happy.’

And when she kissed him, the certainty in her eyes shining out brighter than any jewel that could ever exist, any last shadows of the demons that had lurked inside both of them were finally banished for good.

‘Say the words,’ he commanded, finding himself wanting to hear them. Needing her to voice them.

‘Which words?’ she murmured against his mouth, hot and inviting and sensual. Teasing him as though they had all the time in the world. And maybe they did. ‘Oh, you mean tell you I love you?’

‘I warn you.’ He bit gently at her lip as she squirmed in pleasure. ‘Two can play that game.’

‘I’m counting on it.’ She rocked against him, deliberately slowly, provocatively. ‘Which is exactly why I love you.’

‘Again.’

‘I love you, Louis.’

And he knew, with bone-deep conviction, that his redemption was complete. Alex was his just as he would always be hers. Not because there was a means to an end but because this was the end. And the beginning.

This time was for real.

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