Page 44 of The Scarred Duchess Deal

Tessa laughed and wiped away a tear. “You are not angry?”

“Angry?” Leo jerked his head away from his wife’s stomach and his brow furrowed. “How could I ever be angry with you over something like this?” He rose to his feet and took her face in his hands. He wiped her tears with his thumbs and held her face so that she was forced to look at him. “I promised you everything that you have ever desired, did I not?”

“You did.” Tessa laughed through the tears happily.

“Are you happy?”

She nodded enthusiastically. “Very much so.”

“Then it does not matter what our family says or thinks on the subject… we are starting a family.” Leo lifted her up into the air and spun her around happily as she laughed. He lowered her in his arms slowly, until his lips were a breath from hers. “Incandescently happy, that was part of the bargain. Are you that?”

“I am, My Love, that and so much more.”

The End?