will soothe you.” “The only thing that will soothe me is to strip you of your gown and wash every inch of your skin so that I may see you are well. Afterward, I shall only be comforted by lying next to you, watching you breathe for the next fourteen years or so.” Wide green-and-gold eyes slammed into his. “F-fourteen … years?” “Perhaps twenty. After that, you may leave our bed occasionally for a morning ride or a journey to London, so long as I am with you.”
