The next few days passed quickly. They spent every possible moment they could together when he was not working, and she was not starting her new sketches or paintings for her current commission. They ate, bathed and slept together every night. Whether at the cottage or at the manor. She already loved bubble baths but using the grand sized bath in his mother’s old suite and luxuriating with him was absolute heaven. Of course, it always led to other things usually midway through but at least it was clean fun.

She had even spent time in the pool alone with him, locking the main door in case anyone came down...