You're rather young, Miss Danner, Mary summarized, her pale blue gaze scraping Lauren's face and figure.I'm aging quickly, Laruen replied. Ignoring the older woman's piercing look, she settled into th...
You have to marry me. I think I've just been voted off the committee on international trade-they think I'm unstable. And Tony took me off his lift. Mary says she'll quit if I don't bring you back. Eri...
You have insulted me and degraded me every time I’ve been in your presence. If my brother were here, he’d call you out! Since he is not here, she continued almost mindlessly, I shall demand my own sat...
Would you be willing to tell me how the ladies came to be here? I mean, who are they?Ian drew a long, impatient breath, tipped his head back, and absently massaged the muscles at the back of his neck....
Why should he treat Elizabeth as if he harbored any feelings for her, including anger?Elizabeth sensed that he was wavering a little, and she pressed home her advantage, using calm reason: Surely noth...
Why did happy memories fade and blur until one could scarcely recall them at all, while horrible memories seemed to retain their blinding clarity and painful sharpness?
Who taught you to shoot? he asked when she was standing beside him.Our coachman.Better the coachman than your brother, Ian mocked, handing her the loaded gun. The target’s that bare twig over there—th...
Whitney: Where is your home? Clayton: Wherever you are.
When she was turning the bacon, he came up behind her, his hands settling on her waist as he peered over her shoulder. That looks awfully edible, he teased. I was rather counting on our ‘traditional’...
When he finally pulled his mouth from hers an eternity later, their breaths were coming in mingled gasps. Feeling almost bereft, Elizabeth surfaced slightly from the sensual Eden where he had sent her...
When I’m under stress, he emphasized, sliding the magnificent emerald onto her finger, I buy everything in sight. It took my last ounce of control not to buy one of those in color.Her eyes lifted fro...
What's your favorite sport, Zack?Zack tipped her chin up. My favorite sport, he said in an aching, husky voice he scarcely recognized as his own, is making love to you.Her eyes darkened with a love sh...
What the- he began, already heading toward the house, with Elizabeth walking quickly behind him.Ian opened the front door just as Jake came hurrying in from the back of the cottage.I got some milk- Ja...
What does it take to make you stop?Elizabeth flinched from the hatred in the voice she loved and drew a shaking breath, praying she could finish without starting to cry. I’ve hurt you terribly, my lov...
What I cannot understand is how your uncle could consider these two men suitable when they aren’t. Not one whit! know that, Elizabeth said wryly, bending down to pull a blade of grass from between the...
Unfortunately, the Hospital Fund Raising Committee, to which Elizabeth was assigned, spent most of its time mired down in petty trivialities and rarely made a decision on anything. In a fit of bored f...
Toward the end of the summer, they went to London, although the city was still somewhat deserted, the Little Season having not yet begun. Elizabeth agreed because she thought it would be convenient fo...
The waltz was dwindling away, and with a supreme effort he let her go. They talked through the crowd together, smiling politely at people who intercepted them without the slightest idea of anything th...
The last shot wasn’t bad, he said, dropping the subject of the duel. However, the target is the twig, not the leaves. The of the twig, he added.You must have missed the twig yourself, she pointed out...
That only leaves the third contender to discourage, Alex said happily. Who is he, and what do we know of him? Do I know him?It was the moment Elizabeth had been dreading. You never heard of him until...