Richard wasn't the sort of man that did this - meeting women he did not have a formal attachment to in a secret rendezvous. He didn't even do so with the women he did have some form of formal attachment to. This was beyond him but it was her. He would have scaled mountains for her and all those grand gesture sorts of things.
He was nervous, certainly. He had never done anything like this before after all. He was almost excruciatingly honest but he had needed to see her. To speak to her. To see if there was any hope at all of the two of them being able to go forward with things.
Richard addressed the man at the front, not really knowing the protocol here. The sound of his given name in her voice had his heartbeat quickening. He almost called her by her surname but quickly corrected himself to the given name she tended to sign letters off with. "Bella, have you been waiting long?" He asked.
graphics by Lady!