Chapter 9 - Incarcerations & Crazy Love

Lying around in bed, naked, with Edward until well after sunrise…

Oh how I'd missed this…

For the past two days, that was how we'd begun our morning. Edward had the hotel deliver breakfast to our suite, but instead of eating in the sitting room, like civilized adults, we ended up filling a tray and carrying it to our bed.

There, we would eat our fill before making love, the lack of clothing proving to be most convenient, and fall back to sleep in one another's' arms.

"I feel so hedonistic…" I whispered that first morning as he held me. His answering chuckle made me smile.

"When I look back on our time in France, without a doubt the days spent here will be my favorite."

Chapter 8 - Paying the Forfeit & Romantic Getaways

"Poor little thing; you are not what they wanted, but we will love you nonetheless. A son would have belonged to the State; you shall be mine, and have all my care; you shall share in my happiness and soften my sorrows." – words spoken by Marie Antoinette to her first born child, Princess Marie Therese.

EPOV

"Keep your eyes upon me, dear child, and mind no other object."

"I mind nothing while I hold your hand. I shall mind nothing when I let it go, if they are rapid."

"They will be rapid. Fear not!"

I held the girl's hand as we waited at the base of the scaffold where Madame la Guillotine waited to do her handiwork.