What is that? Emma asked, as Lucy’s sobs began to subside a little. Laudanum, Steven answered. He got Lucy to her feet and helped her as far as the doorway, where a maid was waiting to collect her mis...
If I were any man but myself, he said, I would turn you over my knee and blister your backside! Tossing
If I were you, she countered, I’d get the major’s weddin’ ring on my finger, and his baby in my belly, and I’d forget this whole stupid idea of homesteadin’! Insulted,
If you don’t take me with you, she said, I will follow you to New Orleans, and if you don’t believe me, just wait and see. I won’t be left behind, Steven. A muscle in his jaw bunched in suppressed ang...
If you ever do that again, he managed, in a mock-threatening tone of voice, I swear to God I’ll sign over everything I own and let you lead me around like a lap dog. Lily circled one of his taut nippl...
Liking something and wanting to take it for a ride are two very different things', Joslyn sais, climbing out of the truck to stand on the ground. Hutch's eyes sparkled as he came around to face her. '...
If you permit such a barbarous thing to happen, Caleb Halliday, I vow that I’ll never speak to you again. He pushed back his chair, and Lily’s hand in the process, to stand. If you have your way, we’l...
If you want to play this game, then so be it, he snapped. We’ll play settler until you finally learn what a miserable, hardscrabble life it really is! He’d swept his hat off his head, and when he slap...
The thing about love is you always end up losing it.
I’m not a loose woman, she said firmly, without preamble, and I won’t be your mistress, no matter how many boxes of chocolates you give me. Caleb rested one hand on the gnarled trunk of the tree she l...
In another two minutes, if he didn’t turn to the right, they were going to pass directly in front of the First Territorial Bank. Emma clutched his upper arm and immediately withdrew when she felt the...
Insanity, the saying went, was doing the same thing over and over again and expecting to get different results.
Turn around, Caleb said gently when she didn’t speak, and I’ll wash your back for you. The experience sounded too pleasant to refuse, and Lily shifted until she was kneeling, facing away from Caleb. T...
It wasn’t so much the large cauldron of hot water steaming over a slow fire that came as a surprise—people did laundry and made soap that way all the time—but the fact that Luke was sitting in it, lik...
You delight in making a fool of me, she accused in a furious whisper. Not true, Caleb replied smoothly. But I do like watching the sparks catch in your eyes when you realize you’ve just been had. May...
It’s plain that Daisy never learned not to trust a flattering rogue, she remarked. Steven closed his hands around Emma’s waist and lifted her none-too-gently onto the leather seat of the rig. If that’...
What you gonna do when Mr. Fulton Whitney hears about this debilment? It isn’t devilment, Emma protested, bending close to the little mirror beside the door and pinching her cheeks to make them pink....
I’d like you to have supper with me this evening, he called out, in jovial expectation of her ready agreement. Emma walked circumspectly toward him, so that she wouldn’t be forced to shout her refusal...
Justice, of course, was an elusive thing, very subjective in some ways, too often more of a concept than a reality, but without the pursuit of that ideal, where would humanity be?
Just a damn minute, Caleb barked, bringing her up short with a quick grasp on her elbow. Where do you think you’re going? To my brother’s home, Lily replied, her chin high. Kindly unhand me, Major. If...
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