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love for him overshadowed any care I had for what I felt was necessary. As long as he understood that being his wife would not alter my plans to go after those smugglers, I was willing to give him this day. Honestly, if letting him put this ring on my finger meant he’d make love to me every night and I’d have him all to myself from this day forward, I’d have stood up there in nothing but my hat and said, “I do.”
    After our wedding brunch and a showering of congratulations and gifts, we said our goodbyes and were whisked away in a fine carriage Rasmus had procured for the occasion. He wanted desperately to show off the lovely cottage he’d built for us and have me once again all to himself. All I could think of was getting out of the layers of fabric and lace, although I did long for the quiet of the cove and the feel of the sea again.
    “I figured you may be needing this,” Rasmus said as he reached into his magnificent blue wedding coat and handed me a flask.
    “What about you? Having never had the responsibility of a bride before, are you sure you don’t need a bit of liquid courage as well?” I laughed as I took a swig.
    “I’m not afraid of ye, little Razor. I’m madly in love with ye, and courage has nothing to do with it.” He took the flask from my hand and pulled me against him, again smothering me with his kisses as he gently brushed his knuckles over the crest of my rounded bosom.
    “Razz, have you regrets about last night?” I asked as he lifted my left hand and kissed my ring.
    “How could I regret anything to do with loving you? Last night wasn’t planned, but I would change nothing of a single moment we’ve spent together since the first time we met. My only concern was in your silence afterward. For a time after you’d left me last night, I was concerned you were afraid you’d made a mistake and wouldn’t go through with the wedding. Since I’d like for us to start off in our life together honestly, I hardly slept all night worrying I’d done something terribly wrong.”
    “Why would you think such a thing?”
    “I don’t know. You see it has always been my hope that I wouldn’t make love to you until we were wed, but I broke that promise to you and to myself last night. I was afraid that you thought less of me for taking you the way I did. I don’t believe I gave you the choice to deny me, and for that reason, I tossed and turned…well, other reasons as well,” he said as his voice softened and his eyes wandered out the carriage window.
    I reached over and took his hand tightly and said, “Your promise was not to have me until you believed I loved you, not when we were wed. Our marriage is, to me, a slip of parchment. Our love is what truly matters, and I believe we’ve had that much longer than one night.”
    By the time we reached the dock, my lips were again sore and swollen, and my body was alit with the flames of passion so hot that had it not been for the prying eyes of the passers-by, I’d have torn that wedding suit from his body and rained my lust down on him like a thunderstorm. As it was, his huge paw had found its way beneath the layers of my gown and pulled my stockings down and away from my thighs. He squeezed and kneaded at them until I nearly wrenched his arm off to push his hand higher between them to where that flame burned for him to stamp it out.
    “Darling, we have forever for me to please you,” he whispered against my neck through his kisses, and as he did, the carriage came to a stop. “Pull yourself together, love. We’re here.”
    Rasmus had also secured a small sloop to carry us to our private beach. He’d hired several of the Lady Jade’s crew to sail her so that we could further enjoy each other’s company for the brief voyage. With only the previous night’s sampling of what I longed for much more of, the journey to our private cove and our new little home seemed twice as long. However, once we reached our little piece of paradise, I