If this were a different time, a different place, I would take you to bed with me and make love to you for days, he said, his voice slow and deep and intent. I would use my mouth on you, until no part...
He turned back, and there was an odd light in his eyes. Did I ever tell you that I can't live without you? he said.No, she said. You can tell me about it when we survive. She could barely breathe, dea...
We have a guardian angel, and who cares if he's a fallen one?
One of the footmen appeared, with Willis, his servant from a lifetime ago, on the other side of what was undoubtedly female and undoubtedly not one of the prostitutes imported from the city. This goi...
Lord save us, first you have a heart, now you have a god? Will wonders never cease?
He was lost, captured by an innocent, destroyed by a would-be nun, and there was no way the monster, Simon of Navarre, Richard the Fair's Grendel, would ever be the same.
Goodbye, Lord Rohan, she said. The door to Lina's house stood open, the footman waitig patiently. I don't expect we'll see each other again.His smile was slow, mocking, irresistibly devilish. Would yo...
The foundations set up as tax shelters by the wealthy tended to spend as much money glorifying the donors' names and providing cushy jobs for their friends
She looked away, meeting Taka's dark, pitiless gaze. Silently, he mouthed something unbelievable. She was sure it was, I love you.
It's a good thing you're an aging orphan, he murmured, gently pushing the hair away from her face. I don't have to wait around to get anyone's permission.Permission for what, you rat bastard? she said...
If we're going to die there's no harm in telling me pretty lies, In the end it won't matter, and I'll die happy.I have no intention of letting either of us die. And then where would the lies get us?If...
He released her hand back in her own lap. Sometimes you give up what you love to stay alive.Have you ever had to do that?He turned his head to look at her so long it should have been dangerous, but he...
At least it was dark. His eyes drifted down over her body, the ripe curves in the moonlight, and a dreamy expression crossed his face, just before he leaned forward and put his mouth against the side...
And she swung the old oar at him with all her strength.It hit with a great thwack, splintering in two, and he went over the side, into the dark, cold waters of the lake, sinking like a stone.It took h...
And she didn’t want to escape. She wanted to be kissed in the sunlight by a gorgeous man. She just wanted some other man, not this complicated creature who had more secrets than she could even begin t...
You've been pinning for him these last three years, God knows why. Admittedly he's gorgeous, but you're hardly the type to be overset by simple beauty. Why?Because he has sad eyes, she could have said...
What have you done with Hetty? he demanded.Listened to her incessant prattle, complaints, tears, demands, artless conversation and recriminations for more than twenty-four hours. You will be pleased t...
She could dream of happy endings. For him, if not for her.
Mind you she was quite exquisite when she wasn't on a tirade.
He was sound asleep, his long legs stretched out in front of him, the blessed fire blazing, an empty bottle of wine by his side. He hadn't been shaved recently, and he looked rumpled, dissolute and be...