Despite the disorder, he knew where the decanters were kept, and quickly had his guests supplied with whisky. He’d put quite a lot of soda in Brianna’s, but noticed that she sipped at it as though her...
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.
Does it bother you that I'm not a virgin? He hesitated a moment before answering. Well, no, he said slowly, so long as it doesna bother you that I am. He grinned at my drop-jawed expression, and backe...
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...
Don't be afraid. There's the two of us now.
Don’t be afraid,’ he whispered into my hair. ‘There’s the two of us now.
Don’t tell me you didn’t think of that when you decided to come here.
Don’t you go up on the roof in that! I exclaimed, sitting up abruptly. That’s your good woolen shirt! He halted by the door, glared briefly at me, then, with the rebuking expression of an early Christ...
Dorothea is a Grey, he pointed out. Any member of her family would pause on the gallows to exchange witty banter with the hangman before graciously putting the noose about his neck with his own hands.
Egg-sucking son of a porcupine!
Evidently, women are capable of experiencing rational thought and sexual arousal simultaneously, because I appeared to be doing precisely that.
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 where all love is, the speaking is unnecessary. It is all. It is undying. And it is enough.
Fraser was quiet, occasionally withdrawn—but he relaxed in the presence of horses, and Grey felt a small relaxation of his own tension in seeing it. He had arranged for Jamie’s parole at Helwater beca...
Getting up once in the dark to go adventuring is a lark. Twice in two days smacks of masochism.
Grey felt his brows shoot up. Green plants stop scurvy? he blurted. Wherever did you get that notion?
Grey moved a knight and sat back, rubbing the back of his neck, smiling to himself at the effect of his move. He was a good-looking man; slight and fine-boned, but with a strong, clear-cut face and a...
Grey seized him by the shoulders, seeking to ease him back. Henry, my dear. Do forgive me. I didn’t mean—
Grey spoke with more heat than filial respect, but panic made him edgy.
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...
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