I could hardly take her to bed and divert her with a night of untrammelled passion under your respectable roof instead, now could I, Lady Pemberley?’‘Not from want of trying, so far as I could tell just now.’‘You mean you didn’t position yourself cunningly enough so that you could see everything ...
She gave him a thoughtful look and wondered—did he truly need her? Very likely Jack needed someone to unburden himself to, a listener and perhaps even a lover, but not specifically her, surely? ‘I can’t do it, Jack,’ she told him finally and, when he would have argued, hel...
About to tap on the roof and inform the driver he wasn’t the flat he probably looked today, he jolted in his seat as the hackney veered abruptly and threw him forwards with a jarring thud. Hugh was still rubbing his bruised temple and trying to reassemble his dignity when the door was thrust open...
She’d tried so hard to pretend such nonsense didn’t happen to Lady Freya Buckle back then, but knew deep down that all the bluster and pride in the world couldn’t stop this force of nature flaming into an unstoppable thing between them. Dismissing all the possible futures that might haunt her and...