Why are you all buttoned up like that? Cameron ran his gaze down the blackberry-shaped buttons of her bodice.[...] You were happy to bare all last night, Cameron said. He let his mallet handler hover...
Daniel walked as tall and strong as Ian or Mac, even Hart. They grow up so fast, Angelo said when he reacheed Cam. Cameron glanced at him, thinking the man joking, but Angelo's dark eyes were serious....
He'd done everything in his power to make damn certain that Daniel never had to fear coming home. At that endeavor, Cameron knew he'd already surpassed his own father.
Blackmailers are never satisfied. His laughter faded into bitterness.Aren't they? How do you know?His words were empty, hollow. When you're the brother of a duke and your wife died in mysterious circu...
My heart is where you are, Ainsley. So when you leave... Cameron made an empty gesture.I'll come back, she said stubbornly. To this wreck of a man? Why should you?Because I love you
I am a bad man, very bad, but in a different way. I want to ravish you until we’re both senseless with it, and then I want to do it all over again.
I don't want you back because you feel obligated to me, love, he said. That's the devil of wedding vows - they make you do things for a person you maybe should run away from. Come back to me because y...
I don't want to be friends with you, Ainsley Douglas. I want to be your lover. I want to bury myself inside you, I want to find out whether you taste as good all the way down, I want to feel you squee...
Losing Sarah and my boy was the hardest thing I've ever lived through. But even then, you see, I knew that Eleanor was with me. If not here, then at least in the world, where I could find her. I could...
You’ve been in the mating frenzy before. Eric looked up at her, his eyes quiet. Yes. With Kirsten. Yes. Iona touched her hands together. You must have loved her very much. Eric nodded. Yes. Very much....
El, you are telling me to run away with a man to become his mistress.I am telling you to be happy. Even if it lasts only a little while. We must snatch what we can when we have the chance. Life is so...
Ian slid the pot of honey toward his plate. We should go back upstairs, he said to Beth.What? Beth looked up from a list she was writing. Why?Ian rose and pulled back Beth's chair without answering. I...
Hart was surprised how much Ian's silent presence comforted him. His volatile little brother, who'd needed so much help in the past, was now a rock in the roilling stream of Hart's world. , Ian had to...
Isabella is busy, Louisa said. She's frantically finishing preparations for the supper ball, as you know. I ought to be helping her. She fixed Mac a look. So should you.I helping her. I'm minding the...
Daniel swept Ainsley into a strong hug. I knew you'd come back. Didn't I say so? Dad! he bellowed up the stairs as he set Ainsley on her feet. It’s Ainsley!He knows, lad. Mac laughed. I think the whol...
Oh, Danny, it's so confusing.Not really. You're falling in love with him. Or are already in love with him.But am I? Or just... overwhelmed?Love is overwhelming.[...]
Listen to yourself. Poor martyred Louisa. I predict that Fellows will solve this murder and then sweep you off your feet. Daniel shrugged. Well, the sweeping-you-off-your-feet part might take a little...
You were going to refuse him?Yes.Why?
The house swallowed them. Dylan put his hands on Kim's and Liam's shoulders. The Goddess bless you both. He kissed Kim's forehead. Thank you Kim.He smiled and walked away. Liam watched him, his heart...
That bowl was special because of the blue. It exactly matched your eyes.