The Dying Duke's One-Year Wife Is a Nurse novel · Chapter 21 of 24
Chapter 21: The Guest Suite
"You asked once what I wanted for my year," said Lysander, on one knee on the cold stone, in a voice that carried to the back of the hall. "I have it. I am here, and you are the reason."
He kissed her hand.
The whole court of Calder made a sound, and the Queen began, very quietly, to weep.
They were given the royal guest suite before the hour was out.
Nobody asked what they wanted.
A page opened a door at the end of a long gallery and bowed himself backward out of it, and the door closed.
The room was gold and cream and enormous.
A fire roared in a marble hearth.
A bed the size of a small barn stood under a painted ceiling.
By the window, in the last light, stood a dressing table with a tall oval glass.
Rosalind got three steps in and stopped.
She was shaking from the neck down.
"It is over," Lysander said behind her. "Rosalind. You did it."
"Don't."
"Corbin's carriage left the capital an hour ago, with the guards riding either side."
"Good."
"The King has asked to see you at noon. I said you would be asleep." He came up against her back and wrapped his arms around her waist. "Do you know what I saw? I saw a woman I love stand in front of four hundred people and tell them a number."
Her breath went.
He had said it so plainly, and so lightly, in the middle of a sentence about something else.
She turned in his arms.
"You love me," she said.
"Did I not say it? I have been saying it in my head since you put your ear on my chest."
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