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  “I love you, husband!” She shook the pages at him, shocked at the turn of her own feelings. “You said we were partners.”

  “We are.” He looked bewildered.

  “Then I’m going to take these back to that lawyer as soon as we get to London and I’m going to make it right.”

  “Right?”

  “My name and yours. That’s what belongs on each of these deeds. Us, Ross. Together. Partners.”

  He scratched at his head as he looked at her in complete confusion for a long, unsettling moment. And then he started to laugh. And laugh. A roaring, belly-busting laugh that had him falling back against the pillows.

  Leaving her completely clueless. “Just what’s so funny?”

  His laughter settled and he sat up, wiping at his eyes. “God, I love you, Elizabeth!”

  “And that’s funny?”

  His smile changed from madness to the devil’s own as he reached out and gathered her into his lap.

  “Something Drew told me, love.” He bent her backward over his arm.

  “That wives are funny?”

  “That diplomacy isn’t for the faint of heart.” He kissed his way upward from her navel to her mouth. “And?”

  “And that’s what I get for not consulting all the parties in this treaty of ours.”

  “But, may I say that you do make an extraordinary ambassador to my kingdom, husband.” She caught his handsome face between her hands. “Though I would definitely excuse you should you attempt an invasion.”

  “Point taken, my love.” His laughter turned to a sultry growl as he carried her back against the pillows, his eyes alight with that glint she loved so well.

  The man she trusted with her life, with the children they would someday have.

  Because, in the end, when all was counted, it was his unconditional love that had set her heart free.