“I love you. All of you. Charlotte, Charlie, Lady Charlotte. Whatever you wish to call yourself, it matters not to me.”

“Yours,” she whispered. “I want to call myself yours.”

He kissed her then, a hard, possessive kiss that stole whatever was left of her composure. Her hands slipped around his neck, and she held on tightly, not ever wanting to let go.

He pulled her closer against him. “I can’t ever repay what you did for me in that gallery,” he said against her neck.

“I didn’t just do it for you,” Charlotte replied. “I did it for me. I did it for a woman I never got to meet, but who loved unconditionally.”

“Charlotte.” He pressed his forehead to hers.

“I have a commission waiting,” she whispered. “I have to leave England.”

“I know. I heard that Charlie Beaumont had been hired.”

“Come with me—”

“Yes.”

“You don’t even know where I’m going,” she sniffed with a smile.

He pulled back from her and wiped a tear from her cheek that she hadn’t realized had fallen. “It doesn’t matter.”

Charlotte caught his fingers with her own. “I love you, Flynn.”

“And I you. Don’t ever forget that.” He smiled softly at her. “Tell me where we’re going, Lady Charlie.”

She kissed him, love for this man suffusing every corner of her being. She raised her head and saw that love reflected in his own eyes with the promise of forever. “How do you feel about Italy?”

About the Author

Kelly Bowen is a three-time RITA Award–winning author who grew up in Manitoba, Canada. She attended the University of Manitoba and earned a master of science degree in veterinary physiology and endocrinology. But it was Kelly’s infatuation with history and a weakness for a good love story that led her down the path of historical romance. When she is not writing, she seizes every opportunity to explore ruins and battlefields. Currently, Kelly lives in Winnipeg with her husband and two boys, all of whom are wonderfully patient with the writing process. Except, that is, when they need a goalie for street hockey.

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