“I knew ye belonged here, with me, almost since the first time I laid eyes on ye. That’s one of the reasons I agreed to marry ye. Though not the main one. Then what was the main one? Hmm. Because I wanted you more than I ever wanted anything in my life. Right from that moment I fell off the horse and… Woke up in the dark looking up at your face. Then there was that long ride together, with that lovely round arse wedged tight between my thighs, and that rock-solid head thumping me in the chest. That’s why you agreed to marry me, because of my round arse and my rock-solid head? Hmm. I wanted ye from the first moment I saw ye. But… I loved ye when ye wept in my arms that first night at Leoch. But now I… I wake up every day, and I find that I love you more than I did the day before. I love you.“
