Would it make a difference if I were bothered? I have some other skills not usually seen in ladies: swimming, as I told you, and how to shoot a gun. I can bargain down a butcher to within an inch of h...
Well, Scarborough cares, doesn’t he? Maximus doesn’t—not really. No doubt he’s a bit compelled by the chase, but if he doesn’t win—she shrugged her shoulders—he’ll simply find another suitable heiress...
Then he dived back into the storage compartment and came back up with a hamper containing a small bottle of milk for the tea, a basket of peeled hard-boiled eggs, ham sliced so thin it was nearly tran...
Séraphine, Séraphine, Séraphine. Will you drive me mad? Scatter my wits to the wind like so much chaff? Leave me a shell of a man, broken, hollowed of brain and soul, left with merely a throbbing pric...
She watched his chest rise and fall and remembered and reflected. All her life things had been taken from her: Apollo, Thomas’s affection, Mama and Papa, her home, her future. No one had ever asked he...
Percy, who had been investigating the tall reeds by the edge of the pond, lifted his head at the sound of her voice and appeared to take it as invitation to run to her and attempt to hurl himself agai...
Percy romped up and dropped a sadly mangled, dead frog at her feet, then backed away and sat proudly by his prize, looking at Miss Greaves as if expecting praise. She absently ruffled the spaniel’s ea...
One, he said, ticking points off on his fingers. You are no longer a whore. Two, you wore a , you little idiot--no one will recognize you if you don't tell them your past. Three, I love you. Four, you...
Now, now, said Vale in a sickeningly sweet voice reminiscent of a nursery nanny. I already gave him a drubbing for courting Emmie.Reynaud raised his eyebrows. You did?He did not, Hartley said even as...
No, the Duke of Wakefield would never be a darling of the feminine members of society. Something about him was so opposite to female that he almost repelled the softer sex.
If looks could kill, Lord d’Arque would be a writhing, bloody mess on the earl’s pink marble floor.Well, this is interesting. She really ought to be contrite. Poor, darling Lord d’Arque hadn’t done a...
If I've never stepped outside the role that's been assigned to me since birth, I've never tested myself. I've been too afraid of others' opinions, I think. I've been a coward. If that woman needs me,...
I'll not miss a whit of it. Gold nor silks nor fancy books and statues. I can live without them all. What I cannot live without is one Silence Rivers. I love you, my wife.And I love you, my husband. I...
He was watching her. As if her gaze was important to him as he worked himself.As he touched his 'cock.'She inhaled on the thought of the word, looking back down. He'd pushed his shirt out of the way w...
He made no reply to that, so she continued, gently wiping around his nose, over the broad brow, and up the craggy cheekbones. Not a handsome face. Not pretty or comely. But it was a good face, she tho...
He came for me. But the Vicar never got very far with what he intended. I was not raped. A sudden, rather awful thought assailed her. You do believe me, don’t you? A wide grin spread across his handso...
Harry tucked her arm through his and marched her to the door.Stop!What?Men could be so obtuse. Do I look like I've just been tumbled?Harry's lips twitched. You look like the most beautiful woman in th...
God.' She'd tasted of oranges and honey and he'd felt her shake beneath his hands. He'd wanted to strip her right there in the carriage with his men riding outside.She was driving him mad. He couldn't...
Darling, she said and caught his face between her hands, making him meet her eyes. He didn’t want to. He didn’t like the look in her eyes—a grim determination. I love you, she whispered and his soul s...
Come with me, sweet girl.She blinked up at him, wide blue-gray eyes a little dazed.He covered her mouth again before she could speak- either to consent or decline- and drew her slowly backward, step b...