Val's upper lip curled as he wondered if Mrs. Crumb knew the meaning of the word . Most likely she dismissed it as something vaguely shameful and leading to - which, at the best of times, it .
Please remember that just because love isn't expressed doesn't mean it isn't felt.
It took a moment to recognize Timothy... her first love. There had been a time when the mere sight of his handsome face had made her catch her breath. It had taken her years to recover from losing Tim...
I'm Joanna but you can call me Jo if you wish. I've always wanted someone to call me Jo. It's sounds so dashing, don't you think?
I must have an heir. Do you understand? He grit his teeth and said, as if he were pulling the words, bloody and torn, from his very heart, I must marry a woman who can bear children.
You say my name like a lover, so soft, so sweet. I want to lick the word from your lips, sip the exhaled breath from your mouth. I want to possess you utterly. Right now. Right here.
She'd never find another man like him as long as she lived. He was ruining her for any other, and the pleasure of it was beyond bearing.
Naturally I find you surrounded by warm clouds and billowing white cloths, Val drawled in her ear, making her jump.She whirled to find him standing right behind her. He wore slate blue today, the colo...
I believed… No. I knew we had an attraction. Then you left and I realized you were taking what you felt for me and giving it to another woman. A woman you didn’t even know. And I wanted—needed— Anna t...
Humph. She peered down suspiciously as he parted the leaves to reveal the choke. That doesn’t look very tasty.That’s because it isn’t, he said. Pay heed: the artichoke is a shy vegetable. She covers h...
He opened his eyes to see her licking her lips nervously. I... er... We should remove your banyan. At least the upper portion.If he were a man given to mirth he might've grinned then. She was playing...
For a moment she lay still in the big bed, blinking sleepily, loath to move.And then she realized that the angel’s song hadn’t stopped on her waking.Silence sat up. The tantalizingly beautiful voice w...
Artemis let her head fall back, her eyes closed, her lips suddenly trembling. Apollo dying. Please. Please, Maximus. I’ll refrain from provoking you anymore. I’ll stay in the shadows with my stockings...
A giant black beast came rushing up to her, the sound of hoofbeats thundering in her ears. She cowered, waiting to be trampled, but instead strong arms reached down and seized her, sweeping her up.I h...
She very much feared that if she stayed with Maximus, this awful taint – this terribly wrong act – would, day by day, year by year, wear at her until she was no more than a ghost of her former self. S...
She knelt in the mud and tried to pull the cord from his neck, but it had been tied terribly tight and her hands were trembling.She felt the duke crouch behind her, his arms reaching around her, warm...
Oh, how she wanted this man! She wanted to hold him like this tomorrow and fifty years hence. She wanted to be by his side every morning when he woke, she wanted his to be the last voice she heard bef...
Now I’ll just have to do without.She raised her eyebrows. I’m sorry?Then Maximus did something very strange: he went on one knee before her.This isn’t right at all, he said, continuing to glare as if...
I’m not a maiden. You took that. And I would again, he growled. I’d steal you away and keep you in a castle far from here. Far from any other man. I’d guard you jealously and every night come to your...
I want to make you weep. I want all your pleasure, Iris, all your pain, everything you are. Come for me.And she felt herself bow with the stark white bliss of her epiphany, the shattering realization...