Rebecca had not accepted immediately, of course. She had needed time to think because marriage was not a decision she could make on impulse, no matter how sincere Cedric had been.
At first, the idea had overwhelmed her, yet the more she reflected on his words, the more she understood why he had said them.
As his wife, she would no longer have to worry about where she belonged or whether people would question her presence.
She would have a home, a family, and the security she had long gone without. More importantly, Julian would finally have someone he could truly call his father. For all his life, that was something he had never known.
