She did not even know herself, she was behaving so badly. But she’d watched him all day, longing to feel like this. She’d missed this and she wished to make a memory with Rob.The look in his eyes confused her as he lifted up, then came down over her. His eyes dark. He kissed her again, his tongue...
Then he took off his gloves too and dropped them on top of it. She’d told Janet to leave the house for an hour or two. The maid had looked at Violet and then glanced at Geoff with a question in her eyes before disappearing. Violet’s reputation in this village would be shredded. This was not Londo...
He had a glass of port balanced in one hand, and one ankle rested on the opposite knee. The house was silent, and seeing as there was no one here to care but himself, he’d lit a thin cigar. He was sitting in the library, looking up at the life-size portrait of his grandfather, digesting the event...
They had two days or more before her father would find them and he did not wish to get too far ahead. At each tollgate he struck up a conversation when he paid so they would be remembered and when they reached Banbury, Drew asked the man at the toll gate to recommend an inn. If Marlow caught up w...
She was working on some more dictation from Mr. Rees. It was six weeks since the weekend after New Year’s–since Portia and I had started something up. They’d been pretty good weeks. Mom had even come ‘round to the idea that this girl might actually be good for me. She’d stopped panicking when I s...
He was pleased with himself. After a quick trip to White’s, he’d discovered Violet’s whereabouts, and if Lady Rimes was here, then Jane would be, too. Standing taller than many of those around him, Robert had the perfect vantage point from which to spot his black-clad quarry, but one swift glance...
I was going to work. She was in the kitchen section behind the counter when I went into the living room. I was doing up my tie. She’d made me coffee and French toast. She pushed them across the counter. “Here. I’ve decided I’m gonna keep it. I don’t wanna get rid of it… I wanna have it.” Her word...
I’d gone for a dark-blue shirt and black pants, but I’d kept my comfortable sneakers on. The plan was to walk down to the Italian restaurant we’d seen. I rubbed some styling wax on my hands and combed my fingers through my wet hair to spike it a little. Taking one last look in the mirror, I told ...
Under his oppression, her soul and conscience have died while her body lives on, fulfilling his dissolute desires. She is empty – a vessel – deaf to the voice of morality and blind to shame. When her eyes are drawn to a beautiful man for no other reason than his looks, she imagines what it woul...
Rach had kept telling me I was drinking too much, but it was the first time I’d had a chance to drink like that in months. It had been good just to be able to do what I wanted. I know I’d made the choice to get married and bring up Saint, and I was still all in for that, but I was only twenty-thr...
It gave Napoleon no rights to France. But prior to this Napoleon had signed a new constitution for the Empire he’d claimed, and paraded through Paris to celebrate, cheered by thousands of supporters who’d come out on to the streets to see him. In response, the parks and streets of Brussels were f...
He had to drop her. He must tell her tonight. “You have always been good to me.” Emily’s words had been echoing in his head for hours. No. He had been disloyal and unfaithful. He had been doing wrong by her and by Lillian. He had led both women on. He needed to stop. ...