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at least one request before I decide.”
    “What would that be, My Lady?”
    She looked away and laughed. She appeared nervous, as though she didn’t quite know how to ask this of him. “I can’t just decide to marry a man I know nothing about. I know your first name and I know that you’ve told me your last name, though I can’t seem to remember what it is. My main concern is whether we’re compatible.”
    “Compatible? He patted her hand that rested on his forearm. “Have we not wandered the inside of this room talking to each other amicably?”
    “That’s not what I meant at all.”
    Daffyd watched as the emotions chased over her reddened face. “Then what, pray tell, did you mean? I fear that I have no idea what you are talking about.”
    “I don’t believe I have to spell this out for you.” She stared at the floor for a moment before blurting. “We don’t even know if we are physically compatible.”
    “Physically compatible?” He smiled at her when he finally got her meaning. “That is something easily figured out, My Lady.” Pulling her closer, he grasped the back of her neck, tilted her head up, and leaned closer. “Just pull away if I do anything you do not like,” he said just before he slanted his lips over hers.
    Lush lips gave beneath his. Elle’s body relaxed, grew pliant as she leaned into him. She moaned when he pressed against her.
    Daffyd took advantage and slid his tongue inside her open mouth. Her tongue tangled with his as she wrapped her arms around his neck. Thrusting her fingers through his hair, she pulled him closer still until he was certain they would never end the heady kiss that he’d spent every waking hour imagining since he first saw her in that dirty alleyway.
    He found he didn’t want it to end. He wanted nothing more than to hold her close, surrounded by her scent. In that moment, Daffyd realized just how much he wanted and needed Elle in his life. He also realized that they were, indeed, physically compatible.
    Moving his hand from the small of her back, his knuckles brushed her side as he covered her breast. Deepening their kiss, he swallowed another small sound as he brushed his thumb over her hard nipple.
    How would he ever end this before he took her right here on the cold, hard floor? His cock throbbed against her stomach as he held her close. His head fairly buzzed with the need to thrust deep inside her and make her his. Yet, he knew they shouldn’t do anything so risky without first talking to the healer.
    Almost frantic with need, Daffyd kissed her eyes, her nose, and cheeks before moving lower to her neck. When Elle canted her head to the side, he sucked her earlobe between his lips, his tongue darting out to caress the hidden erogenous zone just behind her ear.
    That was when he felt it—three light taps against his lower stomach, followed by three more. Daffyd straightened and stepped back. Looking down, he reached out, resting his hand on her protruding belly.
    “I think one of the babes just kicked me.” He tore his gaze from her mid-section to meet hers. He grinned at her. “Make them do it again.”
    “That’s not something I have a lot of control over,” Elle said with a giggle. “Though you’re welcome to give me another kiss and see if they get so excited again.” She waggled her brows. “It shouldn’t be too much of a hardship, since it seems as though we’re compatible, after all.”
     

Chapter Eleven
     
     
    Elle almost pulled away from him to run out the door. She couldn’t believe what she just said! She pressed her lips together with the hope that she wouldn’t say something as outlandish as that again.
    Where in the world did she get the nerve to say something so bold? She’d never made a pass like that to anyone ever before. Not even her husband. Her mother had drummed the art of meekness around men into her most of her life. It wasn’t because her mother wanted her dependant. It was because, to her mother, all men