Lyana Debaux's POV
"Are you hurt?" He asked me as he was helping me to get out of the darkness with his hand on my arms. I nodded before I was looking at the night sky.
"How did you find me?" I asked him before His Lordship was rubbing his neck.
"I…kind of followed you around," he confessed as I was arching my eyebrows at him.
"Why?" I asked him. I did not believe that he would be doing such nonsense when he was the gentry and I was…a maid. Our social status did not mingle.
"I don't know how to say this but I was having this feeling that we were fated to be together. I know that from the first time that I saw you and I have to ask you this question. Will you marry me if I ask you to be my wife?" He said as His Lordship's eyes were shining. I gasped before he was kneeling to the ground and he was taking my hand.
"Lyana, I know that you don't want to be involved with me but I cannot get you out of my mind lately. So, I have to say that I was in love with you. And I know that I have to ask you if you will be willing to be my wife, the future marchioness," he said as I was looking at him.
"But I'm only a maid. Why are you doing this? You know the rules of society,"
"Begone with the rules. I don't care if I have to face the wrath of my parents but I know that I only love you, Lyana. Please, will you marry me?" He asked as he was gripping my hand as I was looking at his familiar blue eyes.
NO, I cannot do this.
I pulled my hand out of his grip before I was moving away and I turned my back to His Lordship. See what I mean? I would fail etiquette 101 if I was to marry into this aristocracy.
"I…I can't," I said as His Lordship got up and he was walking toward me.
"What do you mean?"
I turned to regard him as I was looking at his familiar blue eyes. If he was a blondie, I would say that he was Edmond's twin but he was a brunette and his name was…
"Edmond!"
I turned to look at His Lordship's friend that was coming toward us. I bowed at him before I was moving away from them.
"Don't tell me you did that stunt," Dow said as I was looking at them. His Lordship crossed his hands and he was regarding his friend.
"Yes. Yes, I did,"
"Why you have to be so reckless, Edmond?! You know what your parents will say. She's a maid," Dow said as I was looking at them before I scoffed at them. The gentlemen were looking at me as I was glaring at them.
"The maid is here and I can hear everything you say, even when you're using English," I said in English before His Lordship chuckled and Dow was flustered.
Serve him right.
I was gathering my skirt before I was bowing at them.
"If you excuse me, milords, I will take my leave now," I said as I was moving out of their space and I was making my way to the backdoor. I don't know what they were bickering about after I left but I know that I was being snatched by someone into the bushes.
It was Edmond, the present Edmond. Detective Edmond Lattone.
"Jesus, you're scared me to death," I said as Edmond was putting his finger to his lips. I was looking at him before I heard that Dow and His Lordship was talking.
"You cannot be serious. That maid did not deserve you. You're a marquess and the only thing that will be fit to be your wife was a lady," Dow said before I clicked my tongue.
"If only he knew that I know martial arts, I think I would love to kick Dow's butt," I said before Edmond was chuckling above me. I glared at him.
"And why are you on top of me? Get off!"
"Shh," he said before we heard the footsteps that were coming near us. Edmond leaned in closer as I can sense that he was smelling wonderful of hays and fresh breeze.
I loved to be in this warmth.
"But seriously, consider the arrange marriage from your mother. I think the lady in question would be far greater than the maid," Dow said. I rolled my eyes as he did not finish off telling His Lordship that I was not a perfect fit.
"Okay, I will consider it," His Lordship said before Dow sighed.
"Thank the Lord," he said before they were gone and the only warmth left was Edmond on top of me and there was something that poked at my stomach.
"Edmond now is not the time—" I said as he was coming closer to me. I sucked a breath before I was looking into his blue eyes. I gulped.
"You know, I think you're a great seducer, Ms. Lyana Debaux," he whispered as his hot breath was on my lips. I was licking my lower lips before I was looking at his lips before his blue orbs.
"I heard that His Lordship was asking for your hands in marriage," Edmond said as he was caressing my sides. My nipples hardened before I was breathing heavily.
"What do you mean?"
Edmond chuckled darkly before he was shaking his head at me. He was tracing my breasts before he was looking at me and I was gulping even more when I saw that his eyes were darkened.
"You know, I got jealous and angry when that bastard was asking you to be his wife. I thought I have to kill him if you have said 'Yes'," Edmond said as I was arching my eyebrow at him.
"Oh, and why is that?" I asked before Edmond was staring at me intensely. I was shifting slightly before he smirked. Then, he moved to my ears.
"Because, you will be a single woman again and I will ask you to be my wife then," he said as my chest was rising up and down. I was breathing hard before I was looking at our intimate position.
If I just moved, I know that he was hard for me.
"What are you thinking, La Femme Bleu?" Edmond asked me as I flinched before I know why he was being like this with me. He wanted to put me behind bars and I know that he was bluffing at me of being his wife.
"You're bluffing," I said as I felt the dampness that was trying to come out of my eyes. I have to control it. I have to make sure that I will not have succumbed to his seduction.
"Was I?" Edmond said before he was rolling his hips to my thighs. I jerked up when I felt his boner was on my stomach before I was moving to spread my legs to him.
���Yes, this is what you're doing to me, Lyana. You're making me insane with the need that I cannot think anymore and I don't think I would put you behind bars any longer after we get out of this mess," Edmond said as I was gripping his arms.
Does he mean that? Can I trust him?
"Do you mean it?" I asked him as I was pulling him closer to me.
"What?"
"That you want me to be your wife? That you will never put me behind bars and you will help me to restore my reputation?" I asked Edmond before he was breathing near my neck.
"You better believe it, love, 'cause I will never let you out of my arms anymore," Edmond said and with that, he was claiming my mouth.
I moaned as I was sneaking my hands behind his neck and I was licking his lower lips. Edmond groaned before he was plunging his tongue inside my mouth. His hips were moving and I was matching his rhythm as his boner hit the sensitive part that has been needy when we were inside this bush.
"Oh my God!" I moaned before I was angling my neck before Edmond was kissing my neck and jaws.
"So, is that a yes?" He whispered to me as I was nodding at him.
"Say it. I want to hear it," he said as I was arching my back when the wave of pleasure was coming at me when Edmond was down on me.
"Yes!"
I shouted before the wave was traveling to all of my body. I smiled before I was looking at Edmond dreamily.
"Good," he said as he kissed me again.
"Because we will be stealing the tanzanite tonight," Edmond said as he got up and pulled me with him.