He’d meant to take her apart with a kiss. How, then, did he wind up in pieces?
Julie Anne LongMEEEEE!” it bellowed.
She jumped back again, dropping the basket lid. What the devil?
She opened it again, and looked down at the wee thing.
“MEEEEEE!”
“Good heavens, you are loud,” she told it. “I thought cats were supposed to say ‘meow.’ There are two syllables in meow.”
“MEEEEEE!” It corrected vehemently and with great singularity.
Because “Platitude” was a language everyone spoke
Julie Anne LongAh, Lyon: the Achilles’ heel of this family. She had forgotten about Lyon, and about disappearing Redmonds.
Julie Anne LongCharm, my dear, Cynthia wanted to tell her, is not learned, it is innate. And it is honed by desperation and need and sharpened by application. If you want the truth, that is.
Julie Anne Longi can only think god is responsible for passion,for god gives us bodies with which to express it and heart in which to hold it
Julie Anne LongRhys told himself that everything came with a price. He’d made a difficult choice years ago to regain all he had, and some days he could convince himself that life was like war: bitter, desperate choices were often made in the name of survival, and some inevitably survived at the expense of others.
Julie Anne LongAnd before he knew what he was doing, he reached out and with a thumb brushed away one teardrop glistening in that mauve crescent beneath her eyes.
And then he looked down at his thumb, and rubbed the tear out of existence, right into his skin.
Now, here’s a philosophical dilemma for a vicar … is it a lie if you don’t know you’re lying? Is it a lie if you’re lying to yourself?”
“Is it a sin if I tell my cousin to bugger off?
Her voice was a thread, but still she managed to sound acerbic. “I believe it’s the devil’s job to tempt me. Not yours.”
“And the difference between the devil and I would be . . . ?”
“None that I can detect.
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