Page 83 of A Virgin for the Vicious Highlander
He pulled his head back, smiling down at her. “I love ye, Cecilia Blaine. Thank ye for takin’ yer vows with me instead of at that convent.”
Her heart fluttered upon hearing her new full name for the first time. “I wouldnae have taken vows for anyone or anythin’ else,” she told him earnestly. “I love ye. I love ye so very much.”
Still smiling, he rolled onto his side, pulling her with him. And as he held her, both of them entwined, she listened to his racing heart and knew that it belonged to her. She had a home, at last, in a place where she could be safe and free, wrapped up in the arms of a man she loved with all of herheart.
And with ye, me love, I will have a family again…
All these years, she had assumed the heavens were not listening when she prayed, punishing her for not being the nun everyone wanted her to be. But Murdoch was proof that not only had the heavens been listening and biding their time, but they had also finally answered her prayers.
Indeed, she was exactly where she was supposed to be.
The End?
