“You can’t do this,” she cried. He halted at the door and looked around him before meeting her enraged gaze with a quizzical lift to his brow. “I don’t see anyone making an effort to stop me.” All the way back to the wharf, during the longboat trip ...
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Some Christmas, she thought. Neither of them could converse with the other. He resented being there, and she—she had to smile wryly at her predicament—she, who wanted no commitments, had saddled herself with this little savage for the duration of the holidays. She shouldn’t have been so impulsive...
Françoise had mentioned that he liked the fragrance. When he had been just a name without a face, it had been easy to enter into her deception. Now, every time she sat across the table from him, she felt such awful guilt. One day, she would have to confront him with the truth of her misdeed. &nbs...
Since she had been no beauty, time did not have much to tamper with. Indeed, she had weathered the years better than other women her age. She was middle-aged and looked it. No less, no more. Beneath that structure of flesh and bones was the essence ...