“Sadie, so long as I have you, you can invite everyone into our home.”Except Abigail and Demencia.
“I think just Jane is plenty.”
He nodded at a door. “You talk to Jane, and offer her a ride home—whichever home she prefers for the night. I’ll inform Mother that we are leaving.”
Sadie caught his hand as he turned to leave. “Nick?”
“Yes?”
She initiated this kiss, and she didn’t hold herself back. The hostesses of Linzen might have truly been scandalized if any of them had been looking anywhere but at the Duke of Demencia and his new fiancée.
“You are an amazing person, Nicholas, even if you do pretend to be a grump. I love you.”
“I love you too, Sadie.”
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