In the ensuing two weeks Ian managed to buy back Elizabeth’s emeralds and Havenhurst, but he was unable to find a trace of his wife. The town house in London felt like a prison, not a home, and still...
Looking at you has been my favorite pastime from the moment you asked me to describe your face, he said solemnly, looking straight into her eyes.
Some of the most unkind,judgmental people I've ever known go to church every Sunday and read the Bible.I don't know how some people are able todisassociate their own cruelty and shortcomings from thei...
I trust you had a pleasant walk, Ian, he said when her door closed upstairs.Ian stiffened slightly in the act of pouring some leftover coffee into a mug and glanced over his shoulder. One look at his...
Don't do this to us. He warned, his voice hoarse with angry desperation as he realize he was losing her. You're letting eleven years of mistrust color everything you've discovered I've done.
We need to straighten out some personal matters between us. Why don't we do it over dinner tonight? he suggested.Lauren courteously refused with a half truth. I'm sorry, I already have a date.All righ...
The call was already under way when Lauren walked into his office. Nick gestured toward his chair and got up so taht she could sit at his desk and take notes.Two minutes after Lauren sat down, he lean...
Let me go. I can’t, he said hoarsely, (…) I’ve tried a hundred times to let you go, Victoria, but I can’t.
Lady Thornton, how very of you to find the time to pay us a social call! Would it be too pushing of me to inquire as to your whereabouts during the last six weeks?At that moment Elizabeth’s only thou...
I think, Berta remarked with a proud little smile when she was seated alone in the drawing room beside Elizabeth, he’s having second thoughts about proposing, milday.I think he was silently contemplat...
Either give me your hand, or end it now, and put us both out of our misery.
Behold your new mistress, my wife, he pronounced, and know that when shebids you, I have bidden you. What service you render her, you are rendering me. What loyalty you give or withhold from her, you...
You are mad! she snapped, her chest heaving. And you are a devil!And you, my dear, Royce imperturbably replied, are a bitch. With that, he turned to the horrified friar and unhesitatingly announced, T...
In the middle of his rapid-fire dictatioin he said softly, without pausing, When the sun is on your hair, it shines like spun gold, and launched back into his letter. Lauren, who had inadvertently tak...
If you’re hoping for a good meal, you’ve come to the wrong place. Miss Cameron has already attempted to sacrifice herself on the altar of domesticity this morning, and we both narrowly escaped death f...
I think, Nick snarled, that the stupid bastard isn't smart enough to win a poker hand with a deck of marked cards.
Has anyone ever told you how beautiful you are? she asked softly.A slow boyish smile spread across his features. What would you think if I told you no?Lauren laughed. I'd think you were trying to appe...
What, may I ask, does your one truck contain if not gowns?Inspiration struck, and Elizabeth smiled radiantly. Something of great value. Priceless value, she confided.All faces at the table watched her...
She remebered the angry hurt she had felt because his mother had abandoned him as a young boy,and she cried even harder.His mother should have drowned him!
Nick,please let me go.I can't. His forehead creased into a dark frown of irritated bewilderment. Whenever I see you,I can't seem to let you go.You fired me!He grinned. I just rehired you.