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“What are you doing here anyway?”

“I missed you and I needed you”

Awww

“You leave me with no willpower at all”

“I’ve only ever loved one woman and I’m dancing with her right now”

“Petra had crept up on him. Insidiously she had made herself necessary to his happiness.
He wanted her part of his life, he wanted to hear her laughter every day, to feel her presence in the air around him, to enjoy her radiance, bask in her sunny insouciance. Even when she exasperated him with her stubbornness, her self-determination, her refusal to compromise, he loved her for it.”

Aww

“He eased her forward with a hand in the small of her back”

“Of course she wanted to marry him, of course she wanted to share her life with him. Of course she wanted that close, intimate partnership. But was it safe to love Guy Granville?”

"I don't know what to do with the way you make me feel, Petra. I want to look after you, to protect you, but then your stubborn, obstinate, challenging, bristly self-assertion annoys me and I want to shake some sense into you. But you move me in a way I've never felt before, being with you fills me with joy, like the blackbird's song the other night, so my question to you, Petra Rutherford, is, will you marry me?"
I-

“Very well. As my lady wishes”

“He glanced sideways at Petra, who was laughing at something Fenella had said, he hazel eyes alight, her cheeks slightly flushed with champagne, sun and pleasure and something seemed to come loose inside him. It felt almost like a spring breaking.”