He grunted and stirred, withdrawing from her. She only had a moment to be disappointed and then he flipped her to her back and rose over her, powerful and male. He casually parted her legs with his kn...
He grinned, though his face was strained. That’s it, love. Use me to make yerself feel good.
The sight of her was like a swift, cool wind through his frame, quickening his body, alerting all his senses, making him completely aware he was a male and she a female.
He treasured her, treasured her tears, treasured her love for others. Her heart might even be big enough to fill that empty space in his own chest. Perhaps she could be his heart as well.
She opened her mouth wide in a silent scream and his release caught him, hard and fast as he kissed her openmouthed. He tore his mouth from hers and shouted his triumph. She was his, now and forevermo...
A small brownish-gray terrier had been sitting on the brick, but he hopped to his feet as soon as he saw Bridget and gave one sharp emphatic bark.Now hush, she said to him- not that he seemed to care....
The duke brought her hand to his mouth and, his azure eyes glittering in the candlelight, pressed a kiss to the inside of her wrist.And then the edge of his teeth.She felt the warm softness of his lip...
Will you be traveling there again? To Istanbul and Arabia and the places where they follow the Koran?I hope so, he said, laying aside the golden book very carefully. The air is so hot there, warm and...
But Sir Alistair’s gaze was different. Those other men had looked at her with lust or speculation or crass curiosity, but they hadn’t been looking at her really. They’d been looking at what she repres...
Silence cleared her throat, fearful her voice would come out a croak. Is she asleep?He blinked as if he, too, were waking from a dream, and glanced down at Mary Darling. Aye, I’m a-thinkin’ she is—she...
Shhh. He put a finger to her lips. Hear me out. I cannot deny that I would've liked to have made babies with you. A little girl with your hair and eyes would've been the delight of my life. But it is...
Lie down, she said, and she couldn't recognize her voice. It sounded slow and languid and low, as if it were warm honey.She felt the place between her legs heat.He cocked his head at her, and for a mo...
The lengths to which you’re prepared to go to please a housekeeper make me wonder about the servant situation in Scotland. Good help must be thin on the ground. Vale widened his eyes and took a drink....
This was madness; this was delirium.
He immediately turned to her as the carriage rocked into motion, wrapping her in his cloak and examined her. She had bruises on her shoulders and on her arms. Her wrists were bloodied- he growled unde...
Still, it was a sad state of the world that people judged others not by the best that they could be but by the worst thought in their own hearts.
Temperance Dews stood with quiet confidence, a respectable women who lived in the sewer that was St. Giles. Her eyes had widened at the sight of Lazarus, but she made no move to flee. Indeed, finding...
Her breath caught as she swept over his nipple with the cloth. Did he feel that? Did it feel any different from the rest of his skin? Did he feel as she did when cloth brushed over her bare nipples?Sh...
His nostrils flared just a little bit, and the lines bracketing his mouth grew deeper. He snarled with his beautiful, twisted lips and she thought, half on the edge of falling again, she thought he lo...
But worse- much, worse- she'd run away herself.That was unpardonable, unforgivable, .Hit him, shame him, spit at him- anything but turn her back on him. She couldn't simply quit their game. That, wa...