The baroness lifted her lorgnette, and peered through it. “Really, quite the loveliest girl in the room.” Burke, looking in the same direction as the old woman, could only nod. It was true. She was quite the loveliest girl in the room. And it wasn’t just this room, either....
And she was his ship, not just one he was commanding; she belonged to him now, a thought that kept returning, again and again. And filling him with guilt, because he knew how much Payton had wanted her. More than that, he knew how much Payton deserved her, how hard she’d worked for her, how lovin...