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  “You want to see him?” Kate asked.

  “I don’t want to tell him what I have found out, and I won’t, but I’m wondering, if he suspected, if maybe that was why he was such a brute.” He shook his head. “I don’t condone what he did, even for a moment, but maybe I can understand him a bit better now.” He lay there silent for a moment. “Maybe I can tell him I forgive him before he dies.”

  “You can,” she said and he nodded.

  There were flights to book, places to be, but he pulled her into his arms and gave her a tender kiss that turned passionate, and he loved how she responded to him, how her body had awoken to him, and she loved how he made her smile.

  “What have I unleashed,” Isaak said as her hand crept down of its own accord.

  “I’ve got a lot of catching up to do.”

  “Oh yes.” Isaak smiled at the very thought. “But we have somewhere to go before we leave here.”

  “Somewhere?”

  “I got you another present,” he said. “In my jeans.” He pointed to them.

  “Isaak.” Kate grumbled because she didn’t want to get out of bed, but she did so, and Isaac watched smiling, as completely naked, all rumpled, and finally unbuttoned, she reached into his jeans.

  “Your wallet?” Kate frowned.

  “Other pocket,” Isaak said, looking at her breasts and wondering if they could get a later checkout and flight.

  “A padlock?”

  “I want to rewrite our history,” Isaak said. “I want to go back to Pont des Arts, to the Lovers Bridge and do things properly, then we come back here and make love.”

  Kate wore the lilac dress, the first dress he had bought her and she wore her strand of pearls without a knot and her hair was wild and curly and blowing in her eyes as they clipped their padlock to the Pont des Arts on their last morning in Paris.

  Isaak took his bride in his arms. “Time to throw away the keys?” He waved them in front of her. “But I warn you, if we do this it means we will be together forever.”

  “That sounds more like a promise to me,” Kate said.

  “Oh, it is,” Isaak said and as they threw the keys, he pulled her in for a kiss and always he made her smile. “The honeymoon’s over, baby.”

  The End

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  Honeymoon Series

  If you loved The Bride Who Wouldn’t, you’ll love the other Honeymoon novellas!

  Second Chance Honeymoon by Ally Blake

  coming June 2014

  The Honeymoon Prize by Melissa McClone

  coming July 2014

  The Honeymoon Trap by Kelly Hunter

  coming July 2014

  About the Author

  Carol Marinelli has written at least seventy romances and hopes for at least seventy more. A single mother of three, she is originally from England but now lives in Australia. Generally she loves to write strong alpha heroes but every now and then she fancies a change and is grateful that her imagination obliges and lets her explore longer length women’s fiction. Carol’s hobbies are writing and catching up with friends so it would seem that she’s in the right place and very excited to be writing for Tule!

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