Free Mistletoe & Michaelmas by Rose Gordon

reaching for the duke's forgotten satchel. “I'm almost afraid to open this.”
    “You can't be that afraid or you wouldn't have just been blackmailed into naming your eldest son after him for whatever that contains,” Gareth commented.
    “Oh, we didn't,” Daphne said airily. “We'd already decided on the name. But since it made him so happy to think he'd manipulated us to get what he wanted—” She shrugged.
    Jane looked at her husband. “And you thought you were a mastermind?”
    Ignoring her, Gareth said, “Are you ever going to open that, Lentz?”
    Aaron needed no further prompting. He unbuckled the gold buckle and pulled the strap, then flipped the flap backward and grinned. “Happy Michaelmas, Daphne” he said, pulling out the little bough of dried mistletoe that had likely hung over the duke's front door.
    “Happy Michaelmas, Aaron,” she returned, leaning toward him. “I sure do love you.”
    “I love you, too—more than words could ever express.” It was true and she knew it. So with no other words to say, Aaron lifted the sprig of mistletoe above their heads and the two embraced in their Michaelmas under the mistletoe kiss.
     
    THE END
     

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Curious about how Jane snagged Gareth? You can read all about their love at first sight (and marginally scandalous) romance in The Perfect Lady Worthe

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