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He cupped her face in his hands, made her meet his gaze. Solemnly, he said, "I heard you say that when two people love each other, they fight through everything together. Every doubt, every challenge, every pain. Please. You are the only one for me, for as long as I live. And if you love me, fight with me." --
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the-iron-duke
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Meljean Brook |
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2e574a0
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Aghast, Yasmeen gaped at her before looking to the duke. "It's worse than I thought. Not just the Horde, not just the police- you're keeping company with someone who has principles."
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rhys-trahaearn
yasmeen
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Meljean Brook |
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606e5be
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When you're surrounded by stupidity, self-preservation isn't a sin.
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stupidity
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Meljean Brook |
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db4367b
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I'll kiss you until we can't breathe. I'll strip you naked and taste every inch of you. Then I'll shag you until neither of us can see straight.
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Meljean Brook |
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90973dd
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She trailed after him, admiring the line of his back. He began climbing the stairs, and she sighed with pleasure. Every bit of him was gorgeous. "Do you mind if I objectify you?" "Please do," he said over his shoulder. "Particularly my knees, as they are oft-neglected." "Maybe if you ever got your pants off, they wouldn't be." "It hardly matters, sweet; once they've come off, the attention isn't likely to center on my absurdly handsome knee..
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beauty
humor
colin
savi
vanity
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Meljean Brook |
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she studied his clothes, his top hat. "And you've just come from Parliament? How are you finding that?" "It's much like piracy. You tell your enemies that if they don't fall in line, you'll leave them to die."
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politics
mina-wentworth
rhys-trahaearn
the-iron-duke
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Meljean Brook |
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4799ed2
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You wear your armor even to dinner, Lady Wilhelmina?" "Of course I wear armor. I am sitting with a pirate, a mercenary, an adventurer, and a bounder. If a shot is not fired tonight, I daresay that your reputations are nothing but lies."
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humor
armor
dinner-party
irons-seas
mina-wentworth
rhys-trahaearn
scarsdale
the-iron-duke
yasmeen
weapons
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Meljean Brook |
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0b2aeec
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Goddammit. Can't I save you just ?
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Meljean Brook |
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e47fe4c
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Do my questions annoy you?" He glanced at her, his surprise evident. "No. I'm far too vain to object; I am my favorite topic."
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Meljean Brook |
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842a09f
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He focused on the inspector, instead, though she didn't want him watching her. But Rhys liked the way she looked, particularly when her expression suggested that she'd prefer to have a gun aimed at his head rather than sit across from him in a private railcar.
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Meljean Brook |
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e3bb6ac
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Hot, hard and so thick that her fingertips didn't meet when she closed her hand around him.
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sex
rhys
paranormal-romance
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Meljean Brook |
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c3b32b5
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he decided,
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Meljean Brook |
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1cf5f8a
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From the very first, I knew you'd be dangerous to me. I should have run." "I'd have caught you."
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Meljean Brook |
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9e57add
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I've only imagined seeing you again. That you'd come to my home. That I'd run into you on the street. That I'd look up, and you'd be there, and you'd be . . . and I'd tell you that I love you.
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reunion
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Meljean Brook |
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3cb2695
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She did like him...sometimes. When he was not a complete knacker.
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Meljean Brook |
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4b30345
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You'll see. I have a collection of fine waistcoats and a handsome face." He stepped back to let her take in the full effect of both and her smile spread to the edge of a laugh."
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Meljean Brook |
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76d4f2d
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I'm beginning to think that you aren't with child. You've simply become fat after reading too many recipes.
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Meljean Brook |
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db0065b
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The first opportunity he got, Rhys was going to shag her blind.
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Meljean Brook |
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ba03ec3
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Breathe, Newberry. If you faint in the Blacksmith's laboratory, only the stars above know what might be grafted to your body when you wake up.
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Meljean Brook |
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977526c
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You came." His gaze held hers. "And I knew that you are not useful to me, Ash. Not anymore. Except as a reason to get up in the morning --" "You don't sleep anymore," she reminded him, smiling. "Except as a reason to keep breathing --" "You don't need air." He narrowed his eyes at her. "I'm still new at this Guardian thing. So just shut up, and let me tell you that I love you."
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Meljean Brook |
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48412aa
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Sunset was only thirty minutes gone when some pissant vampire waylaid Deacon on his way to Theriault's. One of those younger shits who wrote poetry to Mother Darkness and thought becoming a vampire would make him sparkle.
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Meljean Brook |
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383c950
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She'd been a silly girl who'd dreamed of love, and a stupid girl who'd declared love a fraud; but she'd never imagined that when she found it,it would be richer, more powerful than dreams, and the impossibility of keeping it more painful than the worst betrayal.
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Meljean Brook |
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f72b3eb
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Confounding woman. He wanted to drag her close and kiss her senseless.
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Meljean Brook |
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17fb11b
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Mina's mouth dropped open, and he bent his head as if to kiss her. She jammed her gun barrel under his chin. He grinned.
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life-or-death-moments
sexual-attraction
banter
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Meljean Brook |
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47c9fc1
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Do you know why you"ve found me half-naked? Do you know what this is?" I don"t know, sir. What is this?" "This is karma. This is every negative thing I"ve done, coming back to take a big bite of my ass." The tightness in her throat eased. She strove to match the light tone his response invited. "That is unfortunate. Particularly as, in my professional opinion, the consequences of your actions are worse than you imagine." "Why do you say..
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Meljean Brook |
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ce9dfe1
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Her hand shot to the front of his breeches, making claws of her fingers and trapping his genitals in a tight grip. He froze. As if testing, she hefted the firm weight she found. Heavy, but so very delicate. She bared her teeth. "And even in the dark, now I'll know that I'm ripping off the right cods."
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Meljean Brook |
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534f5e8
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Perhaps we should see what comes next.
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Meljean Brook |
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43665b3
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I've never understood it. That is always the first thing someone asks: Where are you from. Not 'What do you like?' or 'What do you believe?' or even 'What is your mother like?' which all have more bearing on the person I am. And if I don't tell them where I'm from, they try to guess.... It drives them mad, as if to know me they need to know where I am from.
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Meljean Brook |
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eeca063
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Money could buy her slippers. Only crazy would get her a man.
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Meljean Brook |
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8399b56
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No armor. No buckles. Only a few layers of cotton and ten feet of parlor separated his mouth from her breasts.
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Meljean Brook |
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efea111
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Mine crept up on me instead of hitting me fast, but after a while, it was the same--so that if I didn't have a...a salve, I couldn't function, and I'd start planning my day around just getting it," she said quietly, and had to swallow before she continued. "And you tell yourself that it makes you feel good--but really, you're just getting by. Because you feel like shit with it, but you really feel like shit without it, so you need it to get..
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Meljean Brook |
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3bdf7ad
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Though emotion roughened his voice, he spoke quietly. This was only for her. "I am your sword and your shield. I am your wolf and your steed. Mountains will tremble at my approach, for they know I will tear them apart if they stand between us. But you need not be afraid, Zenobia Fox, because my heart is iron and my will is steel, and before the new moon rises, I will come for you" ... He kissed her and as he pulled away, he wasn't leaving h..
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Meljean Brook |
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ae0c5b0
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Men made life far too difficult when they insisted on neatly categorizing their emotions. When emotions became complicated, they brooded and struggled so mightily in an attempt to simplify them again--when, given time, everything would sort itself out and slide into its place.
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Meljean Brook |
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e84cb96
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People never believed of others what they couldn't imagine of themselves.
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Meljean Brook |
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80fdfe4
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A blacksmith can go anywhere. A detective inspector only goes where the dead bodies are." "But there aren't any dead people here today." Mina glanced over her shoulder at the chest Newberry carried. "That's why I brought my own."
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inspector
dark-humor
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Meljean Brook |
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9b87711
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A jagged stone existed where her heart had been.
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heartbreak
love
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Meljean Brook |
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71c19cd
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Use me," he said. "For as long as you like."
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Meljean Brook |
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e154938
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He expelled a long breath, smiled slightly as if in memory. "I heard them in their room. She said she was a bit tired, and he said that perhaps it was time to see what came next."
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Meljean Brook |
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ed5232e
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She met the Lusitanian cooks, a husband and wife team whose passionate screams in Portuguese during their fights and lovemaking were legendary among the sailors. - pag. 191
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Meljean Brook |
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648fbaf
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Your purse is bulging, Mr. Fox. Tuck it away before you board.
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Meljean Brook |
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5023e31
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When you come home to me, I will always be here waiting for you.
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Meljean Brook |
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905dc36
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Yes. I remember." His voice had deepened. Mina did, too, every conversation they'd had over breakfast, and it made her heart ache. Such a strange thing... She suddenly couldn't laugh anymore."
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memories
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Meljean Brook |
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6b58fd2
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His gaze settled on her mouth. "Have you been kissed before, inspector?" "Why?" If he wanted virgin lips, she'd claim to have serviced an army. "If it's your first, I'll do it differently." "You won't do it at all." "Yes, I will."
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kissing
humor
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Meljean Brook |
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277e300
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For the first time, his wife was waking up in his arms...And if he'd known how it would feel to have her there, his heart bursting out of his chest and his throat so full and tight that he couldn't have spoken a word if he'd wanted too, Thom would never have been able to pass a single night away form her. He didn't know how he ever would again.
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Meljean Brook |