Page 75 of Once Upon A Pumpkin
“It’s amazing what love will do for someone,” he said, after a moment, glancing back toward his betrothed with a smile.
They had wasted no time after Ella had broken her previous betrothal. It had been only a few weeks after that before Dietrich had asked the duke for his permission to wed his daughter.
“She is good for you,” Thea said, shaking her head. “Even if you were always adamant that you would never find love.”
“Well, I suppose Beatrice was right,” Dietrich said with a long-suffering sigh.
“She usually is,” Thea pointed out with a grin.
Ella stood and made her way toward them, and Dietrich wrapped his arm around her waist as she fitted herself against his side and smiled up at him. “I don’t suppose you want to go to the library?” she asked. “I’ve been meaning to stop by and visit Eugenia.”
Dietrich smiled down at Ella and placed a kiss on her hair. “Of course,” he said. “I was expecting you to ask since we’re in town.”
Dietrich was in town much less often than he used to be after finding his true love on the estate he had spent so many years avoiding.
It made sense, but still, Thea found herself lonely with so many of her friends paired off now.
Her eyes fluttered to Nathaniel of their own volition.
She could not let herself fall for him again.
But it would be far too easy to follow her heart, which is why she would continue to avoid him.
He was not the man for her, no matter how her heart might wish to once again belong to him.
Thea and Nat's story will continue in ONCE UPON A CAT, coming in 2025.
