I'd expected, Martha continued, to have to deal with hysterics-bouts of weeping and pleading at the very least.Yes,well... Heather pulled an expressive face. Looking ahead, she went on, I have to admi...
He'd finally found her alone and in the perfect location. The stillroom, tucked away on the ground floor of one wing, was private, and contained no daybed, chaise, or similar piece of furniture.In his...
Patience's breath caught. Her lids fell. Wordlessly, she lifted her face, offering her lips.He took them, took her- as their lips fused, Patience felt his hands slide lower, deliberately tracing the r...
My heart only ever had one thought, one want. One need. Despite all, in spite of all...All my heart has ever wanted is you.
I apologize.For what, exactly?One long look into his grey eyes told Patience she was not going to escape lightly. She narrowed her eyes anew. For casting unjustified aspersions on your character.She c...
Why did you stay?He stilled; again, Patience felt the net draw tight, felt paralysis set in as his predator's senses focused on her. It was as if the world stopped spinning, as if some impenetrable sh...
He wanted her- all of her. Not just the physical her, but her devotion, her love, her heart- all the essential her, the tangible intangible of her being, her self. He wanted it all- and he wasn't goin...
Vane strolled in. The smile on his face, curving those fascinating lips, was more than enough to make Patience inwardly swear that she would not, not for anything, give him the pleasure of knowing how...
The family motto, after all, is 'To Have and To Hold'. We were always a warrior breed, but we don't fight solely for lands and material wealth. There's an understanding, drummed into all of us from ou...
If you seek love, don’t expect it to be simple, don’t expect it to be easy. If one thing is certain, it’s that it’ll be neither. If you want love, then by all means seek it out-search for it high and...
Steel shards, his eyes held hers. Breathless, Patience blinked up at him. His face was hard, a warrior's mask. Waves of anger and aggression lapped about her.When it comes to distraction, he informed...
Is 'Vane' Vane's real name?Minnie chuckled evilly. Spencer Archibald- and if you dare call him that to his face, you'll be braver than any other in the 'ton.' Only his mother can still do so with impu...
Just because I'm not forever by your side doesn't mean that's not precisely where I want to be.
Conservations
You don’t have to say anything. You just have to accept. Just have to stop resisting… He breathed the last words as his lips lowered to hers. And let what we both want, simply be.
It appeared that his sister, usually an irresistible force, had finally met a sufficiently immovable object.
Moment later, she returned and resumed her seat. Presumably, Mayhew was leaving, and Felicia had gone to ask
You also, he said, lowering his voice, haven't yetthanked me for saving you from sitting in the flower bed.She didn't even look up. It was entirely your fault that I nearly did. If you hadn't sneaked...
Very well-why don't you make your case? And perhaps if she listened and closely observed, she might get some hint of what, beneath the words, behind his so often impassive mask, was really going on in...
That woman who was her true self saw Lord Sebastian Cynster, Marquess of Earith, as, quite simply, hers.