Bathroom, moving like a woman in a trance.
As he passed the tool wagon Wilbur had brought out that morning from Fort Deveraux he snatched up a pick. Caleb! Lily cried, terrified that he meant to destroy her cabin. But he went around the cabin...
Caleb rode up just as she was trying to submerge herself in an ice-cold creek no more than six inches deep. Calmly he hung his hat on the horn of his saddle, then he put his hands on his hips, an infu...
Caleb rolled over and slid down to kiss her belly. He seemed to love touching it now that it was rounding with his child. You know, as soon as you get over having this baby, I think we ought to start...
Caleb stood on the Tibbet porch, gazing after Lily through the thin veil of rain sliding down from the porch roof. He’d been employing the tactics the colonel had recommended, and he’d liked the resul...
Caleb swore under his breath and got to his feet. He had so much to say to Lily, and presents to give her, and here she’d taken off on some wild goose chase. She really meant to move to that damned fa...
Caleb’s expression was thunderous. Where the hell have you been? he growled, his arms folded across his chest. I stayed the night in a boarding house, Lily answered as she climbed down from the surrey...
Do you know what it was like in that goddamn hellhole of a prison? The words were torn from his throat. Caleb shook his head. I wouldn’t presume to say I did. There were rats the size of house cats. T...
Dratted women, the colonel muttered, tossing down his napkin and bolting out of his chair. They don’t know how to listen. They don’t know how to obey. If the army were made up of them, we’d all be Bri...
Emma set the tray across his lap, he made no move to pick up his spoon or fork. It’s been a long day, he said with a heavy sigh. I’m not sure I want to make the effort to eat. She sank into the chair...
How’s your arm? she asked, to hide the fact that she was feeling suddenly and inexplicably shy. It was as though she hadn’t given her body to this man beside a creek only a short time before, or relie...
I shall have to drink poison if we are taken captive and forced to live in a harem.
If you’re courting me, Major Halliday, she said, it is only fair to tell you that I have no intention of marrying. Ever. He unsettled Lily completely with a chuckle. I’m not courting you, he answered,...
You’re not going anywhere, he breathed. And even though Lily knew it was fear for her safety and not cruelty that drove him, she was annoyed. Let me go, Caleb. His grip tightened. You’ll spend the nig...
Caught up in causes and concerns and plans for the future and forget what truly mattered—loving and being loved, in the present moment.
Caleb touched the brim of his hat and nodded an acknowledgment to Rupert, then spoke to Lily in the clipped, authoritative tone she’d heard him use with his soldiers. We’ll leave for the fort tomorrow...
Come in, she called without thinking. The door opened, and Caleb stepped inside. I want to apologize for last night, he said, his hat in his hands, his expression as innocent as an altar boy’s. The tr...
He had a tenderness in him, and a streak of poetry, and she knew he loved the land for far more than its ability to sustain him.
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