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...
What possessed you? Lauren demanded of Jim the next morning.He grinned. Call it an uncontrollable impulse.I call it insanity! she burst out. You can't imagine how furious he was.He called me names! I-...
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...
Well, what happened to your scruples in the woodcutter’s cottage? You I thought you’d already left when I went inside.Why did you stay, he countered smoothly, when you realized I was still there?In c...
Until that moment Elizabeth wouldn’t have believed she could feel more humiliated than she already did. Robbed of even the defense of righteous indignation, she faced the fact that she was the unwante...
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...
They’re going to ask what you said. And if I tell Mr. Twindell you said heaven will be like this, he’ll be very disappointed. He’s counting, you know, on gold streets and angels and horses with wings....
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...
Ricco will take care of you, he said. Ricco thinks you are beautiful-he blushes when your name is mentioned.Ricco took their order and blushed when he put a glass of wine in front of Lauren. Mary's ey...
Oh, good. I was worried you’d taken ill.Why? Elizabeth asked as she took a sip of the chocolate. It was cold as ice!Because I couldn’t wake-What is it? Elizabeth cried.Nearly eleven.Eleven! But I tol...
Most of this is my contribution to Havenhurst, she told him proudly.The sight that Ian beheld when he looked up made his grin fade as tenderness and awe shook through him. Spread out before him in col...
Let's get it over with, so I can stop wondering. How many have there been?Lauren stared at him.How many what?Lovers, he clarified bitterly.She could hardly believe her ears. After treating her as if h...
It’s our long absence from the city that makes us so popular, Jordan joked, tossing chips into the center of the table.Ian scarcely heard him. His mind was on Elizabeth, who had been at the mercy of h...
It was the same as I remembered it, she whispered, sounding defeated and puzzled and shattered.It was better than he remembered. Stronger, wilder…And the only reason she didn’t know it was because he...
In the house Jake shoved his hands deep in his pockets as he stood at the window watching the women, his expression a mixture of stupefaction and ire. Gawdamighty, he breathed, glancing at Ian, who wa...
If you'll kiss me back, he whispered huskily, brushing his lips along the curve of her jaw, I'll make it six million. If you'll go to bed with me tonight, he continued, losing himself in the scent of...
If I ever think you are even considering leaving me again, no matter how good you reasons, I'll have you locked in your rooms and the doors barricaded, so help me God. He lifted her foot and began to...
I only have the story in two parts from Miss Throckmorton-Jones. The first time she spoke she was under the influence of laudanum. Today she was under the influence of what I can only describe as the...
He’d promised she would be safe, which she now realized left a great deal of room for personal interpretation. If I’m going to remain, she said uneasily, I think we ought to agree to observe all the p...