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I've been noble since they took you to the hospital," he said through his teeth. "I'm tired of it. I don't eat, I don't sleep, I can't even work. I remember your voice moaning in my ear like the cry of the damned while I was having you," he bit off, bending to her mouth. "You couldn't get enough of me. You couldn't get close enough to me. Your face when I fulfilled you....I ache every time I think about it." --
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romance
love
judd
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Diana Palmer |
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Women are the cradles of life. What sort of man tries to break a cradle (Marc)
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quotes-to-live-by
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Get used to it. Life doesn't give, it takes. Anything worth having is worth fighting for.
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living
life-lessons
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Diana Palmer |
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cc654c9
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I never knew how empty the world could be, how colorless, until I tried to live in it without you
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Diana Palmer |
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9cbdaa4
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All the people we loved, who have died, are still alive in the past. The only thing that really separates us is time. It's a matter of perspective. That's what separates optimism and pessimism.
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memories
optimism
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Diana Palmer |
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d0b2b3e
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No revolution succeeds without sacrifice.
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Diana Palmer |
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faa9c9d
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The inscription in your wedding band says 'forever,' Callie. And it means forever. I'll love you until I close my eyes for the last time. And even afterward, I'll love you.
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marriage
wedding-vows
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Diana Palmer |
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432a30a
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Bring Cecily home," he said curtly. "I won't have her at risk, even in the slightest way." "I'll take care of Cecily," came the terse reply. "She's better off without you in her life." Tate's eyes widened. "I beg your pardon?" he asked, affronted. "You know what I mean," Holden said. "Let her heal. She's too young to consign herself to spinsterhood over a man who doesn't even see her." "Infatuation dies," Tate said. Holden nodded. "Yes, it ..
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e300479
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but it won't last," "Yes," he replied. "Yes it will. You're all I see, hear, or need in all the world."
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Diana Palmer |
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d236541
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It was raining and I had to walk on the grass. I've got mud all over my shoes. They're brand-new, too." "I'll carry you across the grass on the return trip, if you like," Colby offered with twinkling eyes. "It would have to be over one shoulder, of course," he added with a wry glance at his artificial arm. She frowned at the bitterness in his tone. He was a little fuzzy because she needed glasses to see at distances. "Listen, nobody in her ..
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Diana Palmer |
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82117d2
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Think about what life will be like without me because I've already considered that question. And I've decided that no life at all would be better than living without you.
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Diana Palmer |
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53e30cb
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Leave it to you to find a legal way to do something illegal (Candler)
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romance-novels
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Diana Palmer |
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b92c9e3
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I wish you'd told me this before." "It wouldn't have changed anything." "Maybe not. But talking about wounds can help heal them." "You don't talk about yours," she pointed out. He sat down on the sofa facing her and leaned forward. "But I do," he said seriously. "I talk to you. I've never told anyone else about the way my father treated us. That's a deeply personal thing. I don't share it. I can't share it with anyone but you." "I'm part o..
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Diana Palmer |
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3aa6d7a
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You said that it would be the two of us from now on, if this happened. That there would be no more Audrey, no other woman. That you'd come to me to be comforted, to be cared for." He took great handfuls of her own wonderfully soft hair and framed her face in his lean hands. He bent to kiss her with breathless tenderness, savoring her warm mouth. "I will. Even if I don't know that I can cope with that again," he said huskily. "With lovemakin..
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Diana Palmer |
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a20f669
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Tate gave me your birthday present when you were here before," she confessed. "I put it on top of the cabinet in the dining room and forgot to give it to you. Here, I'll fetch it!" Cecily felt as if she'd had the wind knocked out of her just at the sound of his name. She could almost taste him on her mouth, feel the fierce hunger of his body as he pressed her into the wall... "He remembered my birthday," she said faintly, touched. "He alwa..
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Don't make that mistake again," he said in a voice so quiet it was barely audible. He looked as if all his latent hostilities were waiting for an excuse to turn on her. "If you throw that cup at me, so help me, I'll carry you over and put you down in the punch bowl!" "You and the CIA, maybe!" Cecily hissed. "Go ahead and try...!" Tate actually took a step toward her just as Colby managed to get between them. "Now, now," he cautioned. Cecil..
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In a private room down the hall, a tired but delighted Cecily was watching her husband with his brand-new son. Cecily had thought that the expression on Tate's face at their wedding would never be duplicated. But when they placed the tiny little boy in his father's gowned arms in the delivery room, and he saw his child for the first time, the look on his face was indescribable. Tears welled in his eyes. He'd taken the tiny little fist in hi..
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Diana Palmer |
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0c7cccf
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Cecily let her cheek fall to Leta's shoulder and hugged her back. It felt so nice to be loved by someone in the world. Since her mother's death, she'd had no one of her own. It was a lonely life, despite the excitement and adventure her work held for her. She wasn't openly affectionate at all, except with Leta. "For God's sake, next you'll be rocking her to sleep at night!" came a deep, disgusted voice at Cecily's back, and Cecily stiffened..
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Diana Palmer |
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1a26d2a
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Tell me!" Cecily insisted later, shaking Colby by both arms. "Cut it out, you'll dismember me," Colby said, chuckling. She let go of the artificial arm and wrapped both hands around the good one. "I want to know. Listen, this is my covert operation. You're just a stand-in!" "I promised I wouldn't tell." "You promised in Lakota. Tell me in English what you promised in Lakota." He gave in. He did tell her, but not Leta, what was said, but onl..
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1bb82d3
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You have to stop letting me do this," he bit off, half-angrily. "If you'll stop leaning on me so that I can get my hands on a blunt object, I'll be happy to...!" He kissed the words into oblivion. "It isn't a joke," he murmured into her mouth. His hips moved in a gentle, sensuous sweep against her hips. He felt her shiver. "That's...new," she said with a strained attempt at humor. "It isn't," he corrected. "I've just never let you feel it ..
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His eyes ran over her hungrily. "I couldn't get it out of my mind," he said, almost to himself, "the way it felt, back at my mother's house. I was never so hungry for anyone, but it wasn't completely physical, even then." He frowned. "I want you, Cecily, and I hate myself for it." "What else is new?" She gestured toward the door. "Go home. And I hope you don't sleep a wink." "I probably won't," he said ruefully. He moved toward the door, he..
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She pulled the shawl closer as a tall, lithe figure cut across the parking lot and joined her at the passenger door. "You're already famous," Colby Lane told her, his dark eyes twinkling in his lean, scarred face. "You'll see yourself on the evening news, if you live long enough to watch it." He jerked a thumb over his shoulder. "Tate's on his way right now." "Unlock this thing and get me out of here!" she squeaked. He chuckled. "Coward." H..
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ad6365a
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Tate opened another beer. He was glad he had several. He held up the beer to his image in the mirror. "To bastards everywhere!" he said sarcastically, and chugged it down."
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Leta walked to the door and opened it with a ready smile for Colby Lane. And found herself looking straight into the eye of a man she hadn't seen face-to-face in thirty-six years. Matt Holden matched her face against his memories of a young, slight, beautiful woman whose eyes loved him every time they looked at him. His heart spun like a cartwheel in his chest. "Cecily said it was Colby," Leta said unsteadily. "Strange. She phoned me and a..
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Steel tempered by fire," she said aloud, without thinking. "Am I?" he asked. She smiled sadly. "Aren't you?" He let out a long, slow breath and some of the tension drained out of him. He looked at her quizzically. "You give me peace," he said unexpectedly. "The only time I ever feel it is when I'm with you. God knows why, when you set me off like a bomb." She searched his eyes. "Tate, Senator Holden has a reason for what he did," she told h..
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What a curse, to want only one person." He drew her into his arms and kissed her again, hungrily. "What a glorious blessing, to want only one person and be wanted back, even after thirty-six long years," he whispered."
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She realized at once that he expected trouble and that he was used to handling deadly situations. It was the first time she'd actually seen him do it, despite their long history. It gave her a new, adult perspective on his lifestyle. No wonder he couldn't settle down and become a family man. She'd been crazy to expect it, even in her fantasies. He was used to danger and he enjoyed the challenges it presented. It would be like housing a tige..
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5d23eeb
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I made decaf," he said. "Caffeine isn't good for you." "Thank you, Mama Lane." He made a face at her. "Tate and I used to share everything. Let him go off in a snit. I'll share his baby. If he doesn't come back, I'll appropriate it, and you." "That's one area where all your commando skills will fail, dear man," she said affectionately. "I like you very much, and you can be baby's godfather. But I'm raising this child myself." "Godfather." H..
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I won't be responsible for helping you move someplace where you're at risk. For one thing, Tate would kill me if anything happened to you." "He might maim you a little..." "I'm not joking," Colby said quietly. "You don't understand how he is about you. He isn't normal when you're threatened, in any way." He studied her for a long moment. "Cecily, how do you think it would affect him if he knew you were carrying his child?" Her heart almost ..
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Colby's resourceful, I'll give him that." "You used to be good friends." "We were, until he started hanging around Cecily," came the short reply. "I'm not as angry at him as I was. But it seems that he has to have a woman to prop him up." "Not necessarily," Matt replied. "Sometimes a good woman can save a bad man. It's an old saying, but fairly true from time to time. Colby was headed straight to hell until Cecily put him on the right track..
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b7988e5
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I want a son with you," he said huskily. "I want a houseful of children." Her eyes sketched his face. "Dark-haired little boys with green eyes...." He crushed her mouth under his, roughly, hungrily, possessively. "Don't tempt me," he said tightly. "I want you like hell." "I wouldn't stop you," she said softly. "Anything you want, Garet. Anything."
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submission
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612b2b2
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Everything goes. But the one thing that separates human beings from animals is a nobility of spirit, a sense of self-worth. I have ideals. I think they're what holds civilization together, and that if you cheapen yourself with careless encounters, you lose sight of things that truly matter.
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Tate won't like it that we kept the truth from him." "I'm resigned to that," Cecily said half-truthfully. "He would never have turned to me, anyway, even if he knew he had mixed blood. I've been living on dreams too long already." "If you go away from him, he'll follow you," Leta said unexpectedly. "There's a tie, a bond, between you that can't be broken." "There's Audrey," Cecily pointed out. "Honey, there have been other Audreys," she rep..
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Tate practically raised you from what I hear. You love him, don't you?" Her face closed up. "For all the good it will ever do me, yes," she said softly. "He won't have the excuse of pure Lakota blood much longer," he advised. "I'm not holding out for miracles anymore," she vowed. "I'm going to stop wanting what I can never have. From now on, I'll take what I can get from life and be satisfied with it. Tate will have to find his own way." "T..
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Lane," it said curtly. "I was afraid you were still out of the country," Cecily said with relief. "Are you all right?" "A few new scars," he said, with lightness in his tone. "How about a pizza? I'll pic you up..." "I'm in South Dakota." "What?" "It's a long story. Leta has a comfortable sofa. Can you come out here right away?" There was a pause. "If you miss me that much, maybe we'd better get married," he pointed out. "I'm not marrying a ..
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The hell of it is that my son, my only child, has to turn out to be," he added with a return of his old spirit, black eyes flashing, "the one man in Washington, D.C. who hates my guts!" "You weren't too fond of him, either, if you recall," she pointed out. He glared at her. "He's hot-tempered and arrogant and stubborn!" "Look who he gets it from," she said with a grin. He unlinked his hands as he considered that. "Those can be desirable tra..
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Colby arrived the next day, with stitches down one lean cheek and a new prosthesis. He held it up as Cecily came out to the car to greet him. He held it up as Cecily came out to the car to greet him. "Nice, huh? Doesn't it look more realistic than the last one?" "What happened to the last one?" she asked. "Got blown off. Don't ask where," he added darkly. "I know nothing," she assured him. "Come on in. Leta made sandwiches." Leta had only s..
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Why did you want to see me?" He studied her face curiously. "Why do I always want to see you?" he countered. His voice was like velvet. "You're part of me now, Cecily." She colored. She couldn't meet his eyes. Did he think she didn't know about Audrey? "And you wouldn't lie to me," she said. "Any more than you'd lie to me," he replied softly. So they were both liars."
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Do I get to come in?" he asked. She shrugged and stood aside. "I'm just packing." "Moving again?" he asked with faint sarcasm. "You used to be easier to keep track of." "Because I was living in a nest of spies!" she threw at him, having only recently gleaned that bit of information from Colby. "You got me an apartment surrounded by government agents!" "It was the safest place for you," he said simply. "Someone was always watching you when I..
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Leta will manage. She's tough. But Tate is going to learn some things that will hurt him badly. I think he should hear it from his mother." He sighed angrily. "So I called her up on a pay phone and told her I knew everything, and that she should tell Tate the truth before he hears it on the evening news. After thirty-six years of silence, she suddenly became very vocal. She called me a name I won't repeat, told me what she thought of me and..
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A little drop of Native American blood was exciting and unique. But a full-blooded Native American...she was horrified." Cecily's opinion of the legendary Maureen dropped eighty points. She ground her teeth together. She couldn't imagine anyone being ashamed of such a proud heritage. He looked down at her and laughed despite himself. "I can hear you boiling over. No, you wouldn't be ashamed of me. But you're unique. You help, however you ca..
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Pity Matt didn't help him through a window instead of over a sofa," she grumbled. "He needs an attitude adjustment."
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I can't find out anything, but I've put together a network. I'll find her." "The thing is, she doesn't want to be found. That isn't going to make things any easier." He didn't want to ask, but he had to know. "Why doesn't she want to be found?" "Because you're marrying Audrey at Christmas," Colby said simply. "I'm not marrying Audrey," came the sort reply. "I never meant to marry Audrey. She outflanked me while I was getting used to the ide..
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Matt's housekeeper let him in with a grimace. "I'm harmless today," Tate assured the woman as she led the way to where Matt Holden was standing just outside the study door. "Right. You and two odd species of cobra," Matt murmured sarcastically, glaring at his son from a tanned face. "What do you want, a bruise to match the other one?" Tate held up both hands. "Don't start," he said. Matt moved out of the way with reluctance and closed the s..
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