That’s ridiculous. So ridiculous. He’s an adult. All adults know how to apologize. I beg to disagree, Your Highness. Only half of the adults know how to apologize. The other half aremen, and speaking...
That’s the master bedchamber, remember? You’ve been there collecting my underwear.That’s right. You’re the swine who sent me on a fool’s errand when you could have gone yourself. She observed his expr...
The only person who fears nothing is one who has nothing to lose.
The haunted always take refuge in stillness.
The pain of the constant, bone-chilling loneliness she'd accustomed herself to. And learned to live with it.
Don’t you have any respect for your betters?I do. That’s why I’m going to help her up the stairs and put her to bed with a cup of hot tea. You can just sit here and . . . jangle your manacle!
For as long as I could remember, I had always been the girl who had watched her father kill her mother.
He could plan an attack, prolong a siege; those abilities could be trained to deal with the female mind. She considered him her passionate lover. She consented to marry him as the protector of her lan...
If you cannot see the bright side of life, polish the dull side.
Life is to be lived, not shunted aside until all the days are aches and ashes.
Miss Prendregast! He rapped on his desk with his knuckles. You were never in any danger!Except from the wild animals.His lids swept down as if he needed a reprieve from looking at her. Alert me if you...
She glanced over her shoulder at him. So until the wedding ceremony in your chapel, we’ll be chaste?Her smile flirted and taunted, and he marveled at how quickly Amy had learned to entice. There is an...
Tis knowing God created Eve from Adam’s rib, the spot that protected his heart. ’Tis knowing without that rib to protect him, a man is vulnerable. ’Tis knowing you’re created to be at my side, not und...
What a delight you are! Blessed with the ripe sweetness of a woman, yet as green and untutored as any girl. He made her sound, she realized with bemusement, as charming and pleasing with her cowardice...
When she thought of how Lord Northcliff was ruining the life of a poor, sweet, old lady, she wanted to shriek with frustration. She wanted to shake him until he saw sense. She wanted to . . . she want...
Ah, Lord Northcliff, how well you look this afternoon!Thank you. I feel well indeed.Taking Amy’s hand, he held it in both of his. As long as my princess is nigh.
But someone had been in here, probably a large African-American fairy godfather, for laid out on the bed was a dress,
Her legs were clutching at him now, twining around him. She was trying to draw him in, and she didn't even know what she was doing. She was drowning in instinct, and he loved it. Loved knowing that th...
I can’t take this kind of suspense. Decide now. He untied the ropes around her wrists. Walk out the door. In a year you’ll be free of any entanglements with me. Or stay and be my wife. My real wife. M...
I think that’s Miss Victorine now with your breakfast. Are you hungry?Do you expect me to sit here like a bloody fool and eat a meal?You’ll always be a bloody fool, there’s nothing to be done about th...
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