Grey’s hair was like his mother’s—fair, thick and slightly wavy, prone to disorder unless tightly constrained, which it always would be, if Tom Byrd was given his way.
Grey! he said, his tired face brightening. Wherever did you spring from?Zeus’s forehead, no doubt, Grey said.
Grey was modest about his own endowments, but also honest enough to admit that he possessed some and that his person was reasonably attractive to women.
Grey stood up as they came in, Azeel hovering protectively behind Rodrigo. The young man stopped, taking a deep breath before bowing deeply to the gentlemen. Your…servant. Sah, he said to Grey, and th...
Grey spoke with more heat than filial respect, but panic made him edgy.
Grey had noticed this female paradox before: women who swooned at the notion of powerful men who would protect them at the same time liked nothing better than an open admission of helplessness on the...
GENERAL STANLEY WAS still blinking in astonishment at Grey’s brief description of the events that had culminated in his own appointment as military governor—Grey judiciously suppressing the facts that...
Fraser nodded casually toward Twelvetrees. Is there anything ye want me to beat out of him?
For your sake, I will continue—though for mine alone … I would not.
For so many years, he said, for so long, I have been so many things, so many different men.... But here, he said so softly I could barely hear him, here in the dark, with you.... I have no name. I li...
For if you feel for me as i do for you - then I am asking you to tear out your heart and live without it.
Fois shìorruidh thoir dha, he echoed. God rest his soul.
Flies round a honeypot would be nothin’ to it, lad! Penniless and nameless as ye are now, the lasses still sigh after ye—I’ve seen ’em! More snorting. Even this Sassenach wench can no keep away from y...
Eğer ölürsem, diye fısıldadı karanlıkta. Beni takip etme. Sen çocuklara lazımsın. Onlar için kal. Ben beklerim. -Jamie.
Drunk wi’ power, he remarked disapprovingly to the ceiling. Verra unwomanly attitude, that.
Don't move, Sassenach, Jamie's voice came softly, next to me. Just for a moment, mo duinne--be still. I obligingly froze, until he touched me on the shoulder. That's all right, Sassenach, he said, w...
Dolly’d given him a white silk scarf as a parting present. He didn’t know how she’d managed the money for it and she wouldn’t let him ask, just settled it round his neck inside his flight jacket. Some...
Does it ever stop? The wanting you? His hand came around to caress my breast. Even when I’ve just left ye, I want you so much my chest feels tight and my fingers ache with wanting to touch ye again.
Does it ever stop? The wanting you? Even when I've just left ye. I want you so much my chest feels tight and my fingers ache with wanting to touch ye again.
Do you know— he began, then stopped. He looked down at his clenched hands, then, not at me. A blue stone winked on one knuckle, bright as a teardrop.