I know I'm a bad bargain. But I'm begging you to have me anyway. Because I want a chance to make you as happy as you make me. I want to build a life with you."

He fought to steady his voice. "Please come to me, Cat, because there's no surviving you. You don't have to love me back. You don't have to be mine. Just let me be yours.


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The chef turned back to the housekeeper. “Why is there doubt about the relations between Monsieur ...
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Of all the Hathaway sisters,” Cam said equably, “Beatrix is the one most suited to choose her ow...
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I've missed you, Sebastian."

"Have you, love?" He unfastened the buttons of her robe, the...
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It's the perfect solution. We argue all the time. We can't stand each other. It's like we're already...
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It was finally becoming clear to her that love wasn't about finding someone perfect to marry. Love w...
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The way I was brought up ‘he needed killing’ is an airtight alibi.
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There was a fascinating duality about Matthew that Daisy had never encountered in another man. At so...
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With all due respect," Christopher muttered, "this conversation is leading nowhere. At least one of ...
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I cleared my throat and tried to sound casual, like this was no big deal. “I don’t even get chee...
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After watching—with a twinge of satisfaction—the letters burn to ashes in the fireplace, Evie fe...
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This club's no place for you, tibby," he had told her with gruff fondness. "You has to stay away fro...
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I'm coming to believe that there are two kinds of people... those who choose to be masters of their ...
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The bargain…” she mumbled.

“You said I could kiss you,” came his gentle, wicked ...
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Evie ” came his faint whisper “I’m going to your mother see…she’s got ’em to leave a bac...
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Westcliff thinks that St. Vincent is in love with you.”

Evie choked a little and didn�...
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My love is upon you.
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I-I’m not making advances,” she told him as she flattened herself against his chest. “You’re...
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Only you could love such a vile, selfish peacock, Evie.
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Nature had squandered an unreasonable quantity of male beauty on this undeserving creature.
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My prize, my pleasure and pain, my endless desire. I've never know anyone like you.
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Women beg me for it, and not the other way around."

"Then you should go to one of them."<...
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I don't share my body heat indiscriminately.
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If your concern is that I may be overcome with manly ardor and ravish you in a moment of weakness…...
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I won’t apologize for my past. A man is supposed to have experience.”
“From all indicatio...
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A lang, lang time ago…” MacPhee began, ignoring St.Vincent’s low groan, “there was a bonnie ...
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I rarely dislike people for things they can't change, they usually give me sufficient cause to disli...
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Ghost?” St. Vincent shot him an incredulous glance. “Christ. You’re not serious, are you?” LISA KLEYPAS What happened to your stammer?"

"I suppose I must feel comfortable with you. I tend to s...
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He looked like a fallen angel, replete with all the dangerous male beauty that Lucifer could devise.
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Lately I've become so damned distracted that I can't make a decision about anything. I can't think c...
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Good God. I don’t believe St. Vincent and the word ‘celibacy’ have ever been mentioned in the ...
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Slowly his resistance ebbed. She felt the change in his body, the relaxing of tension, his shoulders...
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It's a mistake, you know. You have no idea what you'll be exposed to...the obscenities and lewd comm...
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I’ll take your bet,” he said grimly. “I’m going to win it. And in three months, I’m going ...
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I want to fill every part of you, breathe the air from your lungs and leave my handprints on your so...
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It’s impossible,” he snapped.

“Why?”

“Because I’m Sebastian, Lor...
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You deserve someone better than me. Someone young and idealistic…someone who can experience things...
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The question, love, is whether you want me enough to take the risk.
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Well . . ." St. Vincent walked slowly with her to the crowd of dancers. "I'm a wicked man who can, o...
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Kev wasn't certain if he was surrendering to Win or to his own passion for her. Only that there was ...
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I love you dammit,"she brushed her lips teasingly against his.

"How much?" He made a slig...
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Annabelle’s eyes stung as she stared at him, while need and inexhaustible tenderness gathered like...
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It had been a long time since a woman had aroused his interest as Amelia Hathaway had. The moment he...
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The surprise and relief of being held so securely by a friend she had not expected to see overwhelme...
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Sebastian encountered Cam in the hallway outside the reading room. “Where is he?” he demanded wi...
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Lillian tells everyone about her flaws," Daisy said, her brown eyes twinkling. "She's proud of them....
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When Christopher finished, there was a moment of silence.
Leo looked at Cam expectantly. “Wel...
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You know,” she said dreamily, passing over his question, “you’re not nearly as handsome as Lor...
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The thing you never want your sister to be," my brother informed me, "is an unidentified woman on th...
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Cat doesn’t have to work. She’s a woman of independent means. I settled enough money on her to a...
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I've never wanted to be loved. And God Knows no one's done it yet.
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I am running after you, and life, in desperate pursuit. My dream is that someday you will both turn ...
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I’ve won his heart, but it’s like owning a house in which most of the doors are permanently lock...
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Westcliff sees an odd sort of logic in why you would finally be the one to win St. Vincent’s heart...
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Take too much time, and time will take you.
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Beatrix, do you know what happens to girls who ask such naughty questions?”
“They’re ravi...
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You don’t annoy me.” Carefully he rebuttoned the placket of her shirt. “I thought you did, at ...
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You took advantage of me while I was sleeping," she said breathlessly. "That's not fair."
Gent...
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To Cam surprise, she was smiling up at him steadily, her eyes midnight.
His expression turned q...
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Let's dispense with the nonsense, Victoria. This isn't a question of suitability, yours or his. You'...
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He was unbelievably hard. Everywhere. He was in control, infinitely stronger, and he wanted me to kn...
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Evie…” His whisper stirred the tiny wisps at her hairline. “I want to make love to you.” LISA KLEYPAS Simon,” she whispered, vaguely surprised that she had just used his first name, for she had never ...
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In this regard, Daisy reflected, her marriage to Matthew would not be unlike Lillian's with Westclif...
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... But if I spend [all] my time *reading* about adventures, I won't actually be *having* them.
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I love you," she said wretchedly. “And if I were well, no power on earth could keep me away from y...
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I'm not good enough for you. But no one is. And most men, good or bad, have limits to what they woul...
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All the fires of hell could burn for a thousand years and it wouldn't equal what I feel for you in o...
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The look of experience suited him, especially because somewhere deep in those eyes, there still lurk...
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Clinging to him desperately, Sara kept her mouth at his ear. "Listen to me." All she could do was pl...
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I didn't want to give you the one last part of myself that I couldn't take back. And then you were g...
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Pausing with the teacup near her lips, Helen said, "I would rather marry you. It will be an adventur...
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Sturm und Drang?”

“Ah…I see that I’ll have to introduce you to the finer points o...
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Drat. Daisy pulled back with a frown. She felt guilty that she had enjoyed the kiss so little...
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