Chapter 1

 

Miss Lucy Gordon took a deep breath, trying to compose herself before walking demurely to where she spotted a tall ash blonde haired gentleman casually leaning up against a large oak tree. She noted that he was all alone and looking out with interest at the green surrounding fields.

'Jeremy!' She called out to him as she neared to his side.

He turned to look at her with his baby blue eyes which had the effect of making Lucy immediately feel butterflies in her stomach. But as she took in the rest of his handsome features she could not help but think there was something different today about Jeremy her neighbour, something she could not quite put her finger upon.

Was it possible but his face looked a little more rugged and harsher than when she had last seen him only yesterday? With his jaw line more square and chiselled and he having a more noticeable shadow of hair across his lower cheeks and chin. His physique also seemed sturdier in appearance, had he grown in size in such a short time or had she just never noticed his powerful build? He was more filled out, his chest wider beneath his shirt and arms too for that matter. But yet when she looked at his face it was still somehow the same face she was familiar with, a face she had admired and loved from a far. No this was definitely her Jeremy that stood before her the man she intended to marry, she convinced herself.