My lord! We thought you weretaking an afternoon nap!Sorry to disappoint you, the earl of Sheffield drawled, his voice muffled by the rug. Someone musthave forgotten to tuck me into my cradle.
He was nothing but a shadow on the horizon when that old basset hound of his escaped from the sheriff's office and went loping down the street. When she reached the edge of town, she sank down on her...
Can I sleep with you the whole time we're here, Laura? Can I? Oh, please say I can!Every eyes, except for the ever discreet Addison's, turned to the duke.Sterling cleared his throat awkwardly, a most...
Wilbury, my dear, Caroline said, would you mind taking the children and keeping them occupied for a bit? Twould be the high point of my golden years, my lady, he replied with frigid politeness. The cu...
Nursemaid, you mean? Someone who can sing me to sleep at bedtime, spoonporridge into my mouth, and wipe my—he hesitated just long enough to make both servants cringe withdread—chinif I dribble?I haven...
For the first time, she understood why one deceptively simple act drove women to court ruin and men to risk everything. She understood why sonnets were written and duels were fought and lives were los...
Don’t U want someone to complete you the way Mini-Me completed Dr. Evil? Someone who shares the same tastes in music food who will finish … my sentences? The last thing I need is someone stealing the...
You removed my spectacles!A disbelieving snort of laughter escaped him. The way you’re taking on, you’d have thought I removedyour clothing!Samantha clutched at the high-necked bodice of her homely bo...
What are you doing? she whispered, torn between hope and alarm. Making the biggest mistake of my life, he said grimly, before dragging her into his arms and claiming her lips in a wild and desperate k...
The true measure of a man has nothing to do with years and everything to do with how well he looks after those who depend upon him.
Daca un barbat refuza sa creada o femeie pe care pretinde ca o iubeste, atunci, spune-mi, barbate, care dintre ei este cel necredincios?
[...] When you wrote yr 1st book, did U ever dream it was going to be welcomed by the world w/open arms? I didn't write it for the world. I wrote it for me. Then that's what you need to do again. Writ...
Perhaps the two of us simply got off on the wrong foot, my lord.You seem to have received the mistaken impression that I came to Fairchild Park to make your life moredifficult.The words ’a living hell...
I’m no longer a child. Then perhaps it’s time you listened to reason and stopped behaving like one.
She had fooled herself into believing she was living the life she’d always dreamed of living when all she had been doing was hiding from it.
I’ll give you a ten-thousand-dollar bonus if you can get them to stop calling me the ‘Boy Billionaire.’ It makes me feel like Bruce Wayne without the Batmobile. And I did just turn thirty-two. I hardl...