So little time to enjoy all that life and the world had to offer. Why would they waste even a moment of their precious time on someone who didn’t appreciate and treat them well?
Screwed her courage to the sticking place
Yer in a fou’ mood for someone newly married to the sweet young lass ye’ve just brought home. The words startled a wry laugh from Ross. Sweet young lass? I thought her being English convinced ye she w...
Were you hurt? Is anything broken? Nay. She signed wryly. But the snow went up me skirts so far me arse is a block of ice.
Turning back, she nodded at the man, offering another smile as she passed. She suspected they’d passed him about a dozen times in the grocery store during their back and forth. He looked vaguely famil...
The dog kept tipping his head up to Annabel, and then to the path ahead, and then back to Annabel again. It was how he used to follow his father, Ross recalled, and suspected his wife had been adopted...
Straightening, he then stared down at her for a moment, his tight-lipped expression easing and twitching with amusement when she began to snore lightly. She was just so damned cute. Shaking
So were you born and raised in Winnipeg, or Ontario? Anders asked. Cambridge, Ontario, Valerie answered reluctantly, knowing what question would come next. It was Bricker who asked it. Then how did yo...
Regret and guilt are useless emotions that hold ye in a past that’s already gone . . .
Oh dear, is that a skunk? Leonora asked.No, Alessandro gasped in horror. No the smelly cat!I've told you, Alessandro darling, they aren't cats.They look like cats. Like the big fluffy cat she's been s...
Lucern was worth giving up chocolate. Dark chocolate, white chocolate, milk chocolate - she would happily give it all up for him.
Life was too damned short to constantly push your own desires down and always do what others wanted. On
Life isn’t always easy, Lissianna. It’s full of tough decisions and heartache, and things don’t always work out the way we hoped. Life just doesn’t come with guarantees. And while it’s true that somet...
Let's be quick. I should like to catch up to them before they marry and I am forced to make Suzette a widow.
I’m sure you have many questions, Anders said quietly, almost stiltedly. But do you feel safe enough with me to go have that brunch we planned on, and then hit the grocery store? You’re kidding, right...
It’s kind of rude of you to read my mind, don’t you think? I’d appreciate it if you’d all stop that. If you don’t, I might just put some nasty thoughts in there for you to find. Nasty thoughts? Justin...
It was your first time?Her head snapped up, eyes stabbing her sister.Of course it was, Lisa backtracked at once, and then said, Well, Fanny must have been wrong then. Or perhaps it is different for ev...
Is this true? Suzette asked, sounding like a suspicious nanny. It was a tone Daniel had heard often as a child, though from his mother, not a nanny. They hadn't been able to afford a nanny. Oddly enou...
Inez? I'm sorry I bit you, he said with sincere regret, and then inspiration made him add, Bastien made me do it.
Harper shook his head. Well, I’ve never been treated like a girlfriend in all my life. It was a bit lowering. Nah. Tiny shook his head. It’s a compliment. It means they don’t see you as sexually threa...