I gave ye three things that day,’ he said softly. ‘My name, my family, and the protection of my body. You’ll have those things always, Sassenach – so long as we both shall live. No matter where we may...
I found Lord John and William in the parlor, both of them a little flushed. Mother Claire. Willie took my hand and gently kissed it. Come and look. Papa has found something he thinks you will like. Co...
I flapped my hand, dismissing the matter of outlawry as a minor consideration, compared to the whole monstrous idea. I had one last try. Does it bother you that I’m not a virgin? He hesitated a moment...
I don’t really know, he said. He glanced at me, one eyebrow raised. Does that sound unfeeling? I couldn’t say, I said, a little tartly. Surely you’d know better than I whether you had feelings for her...
I didn’t answer, occupied in dissolving the penicillin tablets in the vial of sterile water. I selected a glass barrel, fitted a needle, and pressed the tip through the rubber covering the mouth of th...
I did say when we were wed that I would always see ye fed, no? He pulled me closer, tucking my head into the curve of his shoulder. I gave ye three things that day, he said softly. My name, my family,...
I could know ye all my life, I think, and always love you. And
However unknown my future, it would be shared, and the bond between my man and me went much deeper than the flesh. Beyond all this was the one great difference, though—I had chosen to be there.
How long has it been since you last slept with a woman, if you don’t mind my asking? He didn’t appear to mind. He frowned a little and scratched his chest thoughtfully. Oh … fifteen years? At least th...
His heart was beating faster. Everett’s perfume was his accustomed musk and myrrh; the scent of it conjured tumbled linens, and the touch of hard and knowing hands.
His hand rested on my hair, and without knowing quite how it happened, I found myself curled against him, my head just fitting in the hollow of his shoulder.
His hair was not only long and glossily anointed with bear fat, but most resplendently dressed, with a high tail twisted up from the crown of his head and dropping down his back, ending in a dozen tin...
He’s fair-haired, wi’ long yellow locks tied up wi’ blue ribbon. And big eyes and long lashes, too, like a lassie’s. Hayes leered at his listeners, batting his own stubby lashes in mock flirtation. En...
He wanted to laugh; the vision of her pounding that wee boy in a fury of berserk rage, hair flying in the wind and a look of blood in her eye, was one he would treasure.
He took my arm, and bowed formally. And may I have the pleasure to present to you my wife, Claire? he said aloud, shifting effortlessly into French. Claire? The Governor looked wildly at me. Claire? E...
He shook his head, absorbed in one of his feats of memory, those brief periods of scholastic rapture where he lost touch with the world around him, absorbed completely in conjuring up knowledge from a...
He put his arm around her and drew her head down on his shoulder, and they sat silently together, waiting for the light to come back.
He meant it, but he bent his head to hers and took her mouth, so short of breath he must have hers, needing so urgently to join with her that he would do it in whatever way he might—hands, breath, mou...
He had never seen a woman look like that, he thought, fascinated despite his worry for Henry. She had tied back her outrageous hair and wrapped her head carefully in a cloth like a Negro slave woman....
He had changed, of course, but the change was subtle; as though he had been put into an oven and baked to a hard finish. He looked as though both muscle and skin had drawn in just a bit, grown closer...