I only hope I may not be ruined,” she was saying miserably. “I should be obliged to marry you after all, and then I’d likely murder you before the wedding breakfast was over.

Christina Brooke

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A gentleman can’t let a lady sleep in an armchair while he takes his ease in a bed.”
“But you are not a gentleman,” she pointed out. “You are the greatest scoundrel in all the land.”
He tilted his head to consider that. “All right. You take the chair.

Christina Brooke

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She narrowed her gaze. “I don’t trust you to keep your eyes closed.”

“Smart woman,” he said. “I wouldn’t trust me, either, if I were you.

Christina Brooke

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Good night, my lord.” The words were pronounced in her most withering tone.

By contrast, he remained quite alarmingly unwithered long after she left.

Christina Brooke

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Keep your hands off me.” She spoke viciously, through her teeth, and he caught a glimpse of her deVere ancestry.

She was a virago in tiny, fragile, fairy form.

Christina Brooke

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Tears blurred her vision as she leaned over him. His mouth was surely made for smiling. For laughing. For kissing. Grief welled up along with the feeling that he might never do any of those things again.

She closed her eyes and pressed her lips to his. They were cool and unresponsive.

Then they parted.

She jerked back, saw his eyes flutter open.

“Don’t stop now,” he whispered.

Elena Greene

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But I am a writer, and I deal in words, and I need to have them spelled out for me--precisely.

Sydney Jane Baily

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Miranda shook her head slowly. 'Good heavens. That's quite an act you put on.'

He drew himself up haughtily. 'I beg your pardon.'

'An act,' Miranda repeated. 'Stand as tall as you like, and frown at me all you wish. I saw you just now. You were feeding cats.'

'So I was. And do you make something of that?'

'You,' Miranda said daringly, 'have a kind heart.'

He turned away from her, the tails of his greatcoat swirling about him. 'Don't enlarge too much upon the matter. The cats were hungry. I had food. This seemed to be a problem with a ready solution. It's not kindness to solve problems; it's efficiency.'

'I stand corrected. You have an efficient heart.

Courtney Milan

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I'm not broken,' he repeated. 'Although at the moment . . . ' This was what came of violating the sentimentality quota. Everything he kept bottled inside him came out. He shut his eyes and pinched the bridge of his nose. 'At the moment,' he muttered numbly, 'I may be coming a bit unraveled.

Courtney Milan

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I would feel much better about this whole affair if you would slap me and get it over with. I know you want to.

Moriah Densley

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