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While he had already decided to leave first thing this morning, the man's making it so obvious that he would like to see the backs of them was more than a bit insulting. To both of them, he thought grimly and wondered what kind of life his poor bride had endured as the daughter of two such uncaring individuals. He himself had been gifted with loving and caring parents who had never made him feel unwelcome or unimportant. It seemed obvious A..
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the shouting below. Leaving her father to deal with Lord Seawell by himself, he and Will had each caught one of Averill's arms and ushered her up the last few steps. Since his room at the top of the stairs was closest, they'd taken
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My lord, surely you do not expect me to . . . with men standing around me?" she asked as if he'd suggested she do it in the village square for all to see . . . and naked. "Well, they won't be able to see anything," he assured her with amusement. Damned if he'd let his men look on her cute little derriere as she knelt in the bushes. "They'll be on the other side of the bushes, but there to stop anyone else approaching." Annabel was shaking h..
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The dog kept tipping his head up to Annabel, and then to the path ahead, and then back to Annabel again. It was how he used to follow his father, Ross recalled, and suspected his wife had been adopted by the beast in his father's place. He
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I do not threaten," he assured her. "I"
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Me wife was attacked and punched in the head," Ross explained. "And doubtless she has other bruises and wounds from the attack too. Take her above stairs and be sure there is nothing serious. Then see her changed. I'll--" "There is no time for that now," Annabel protested at once. "We must get these bluebells strewn about. Your sister and her husband--" "I'll tend the flowers," Ross interrupted. He took the sack from her and then urged her ..
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How are you going to get in?" Stokes asked anxiously. "I shall try the windows first, I think," Radcliffe said with a frown as he straightened out his skirts. "I fear using the front door would be too much of a risk." "Aye," Stokes said, then, "My lord, you...er...your purpose may be better served did you try to...er...keep your face turned away from anyone you encounter." "Aye," Elizabeth agreed encouragingly. "And mayhap if you tried not ..
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Titter," Radcliffe muttered as he pushed the window open on the first empty room he found on the main floor. "What the devil is a titter? And how the hell am I supposed to try not to look so large?" Shaking his head with disgust, he held the window open with one hand as he sat on the ledge, then swung one leg after the other over the sill and into the room. Standing, he let the window slide closed, then took a moment to brush the wrinkles o..
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Hurrying forward, he opened the door a crack to see Little Willy lumbering down the stairs. The man was a giant. His fists were nearly as large as his head, which was admittedly small for his body. Radcliffe supposed he should be grateful that those fists had only squeezed his behind. Had the man hit him with one of them, he probably would have killed him with the first blow. Radcliffe sighed at his own thoughts. Dresses, he decided, were h..
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Annabel stopped rubbing the center of her lower back and ducked her head to hide the blush his words had brought on. It made Ross want to kiss her. Reminded
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Did my husband catch the man?" "Nay," Seonag answered. "The laird didn't give chase. He was more concerned with getting ye home to tend yer wound. He's out there now with the men though, beating the bushes and searching for him." "Oh," Annabel murmured, oddly disappointed that he'd simply dumped her there in Seonag's care and rushed off rather than stay to see her wake up and reassure himself that she was all right. She supposed it was sill..
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I was attacked? I thought I just ran into a tree." "Aye, ye did," he acknowledged. "But when yer squawking woke me up, someone was chasing ye." "Squawking?" she asked with affront. "I do not squawk, husband." His mouth worked briefly and he turned away for another pseudo cough, but then nodded solemnly. "I meant scream. When yer screaming woke me up." "Hmmm,"
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With those thoughts marching around inside her head, Annabel found her appetite quickly waning. It did not help that the stew was cold, and the cheese hard from sitting in the open air so long. She'd barely touched her food before she was pushing it away and letting the fur slip to the floor so that she could draw the linen around herself in the roman style and stand. "I thought ye were hungry?" Ross said, stepping closer and scooping her u..
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she had dark chestnut hair, a heart-shaped face, large wide eyes, full lips...and appeared about as miserable as he'd ever seen a young woman, a state he suspected had something to do with the older woman at her side. His gaze slid over the matron. Well-rounded with dark hair, she was pretty despite the bloom of youth being gone--or she would be if she weren't wearing a pursed, dissatisfied expression as she surveyed the activity in the bal..
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Alexander also controlled me. Made me do things I didn't want to do." "Isn't that kind of the job of a parent?" Elvi asked, and then said, "Not the controlling part, but making the kid do things they don't want to do. Although," she said thoughtfully, "even the controlling part is something parents have to do too, only it's usually done with rewards, grounding, and threats of punishment rather than straight-up taking control."
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Is there any way we can make you more comfortable until she gets here?" "You can get that bastard out of the front seat and cut his head off," Leigh said weakly. Valerie grimaced and glanced to Anders, saying, "She's delirious. She keeps thinking I'm Jeffrey Dahmer or something." "No. It's the Queen of Hearts, remember?" Leigh said on a weak laugh, and then added wearily, "Just get him out of here and make sure he doesn't escape or rise up ..
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Shh," she said sternly, as if Luc had been the one who'd just let out the caterwaul."
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Mowbray! Been a while since you bothered with the season. What brings you to town?" Lord Adrian Montfort, Earl of Mowbray, shifted his gaze from the couples whirling past on the dance floor and to the man who approached: the tall, fair, eminently good-looking Reginald Greville. He and Greville, his cousin, had once been the best of friends. However, time and distance had weakened the bond--with a little help from the war with France, Adria..
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You dance divinely, my lady," he said quietly near her ear, gently leading her with his arm and pressure on her hand past the gay colors of the other dancers. Clarissa flushed and smiled a bit proudly, then sighed and shook her head. "No, my lord," she said demurely. "You give me too much credit. I fear you are the one who dances divinely. I know it is not I, for I have been able to do nothing but stumble and fall when dancing with others...
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They say you are as blind as a bat, and too vain to wear spectacles," the voice beside her announced. Clarissa blinked in surprise. But if she was taken aback by his bluntness, she suspected she was no more so than the speaker himself. She heard a small gasp of breath as he finished, as if he'd just realized what he'd said. A quick glance to the side showed that he'd raised his hand as if to cover his mouth. "I am sorry; I have obviously b..
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Well, that felt good," Anders said grimly and when she glanced to him with surprise, he shrugged and admitted, "It's nice to be able to actually save you for a change, rather than just showing up after you've already saved yourself." Valerie released a startled laugh that ended in a gasp when he caught her by the arms and raised her to her feet. "Thank you," she sighed, sliding her arms around his waist and resting her head on his chest. "Y..
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I'm sure you have many questions," Anders said quietly, almost stiltedly. "But do you feel safe enough with me to go have that brunch we planned on, and then hit the grocery store?" "You're kidding, right?" she asked with disbelief. He looked uncertain. "No." "Geez," Valerie muttered and pointed out, "I just woke up from passing out after jumping your bones. I think you can take it that I feel pretty safe around you." "Oh." Anders grinned, ..
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We're going to your place tonight?" she asked with surprise. Anders lowered his hand to his side, the stake dangling from his fingers. Expression solemn, he said, "I am. But I think you should stay here. I think that's probably best until you make your decision." Valerie frowned. "What do you mean?" Anders grimaced and glanced away, "Well, I've been thinking that life mate sex is pretty mind-blowing and addictive." "I've noticed," she admit..
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Abel stared at Jane's gran blankly, obviously confused by her comment until Jane managed to tear her gaze away from his body and gesture. Looking down, seeing that he'd lost his towel and understanding what Gran was ogling, Edie's brother promptly dropped his arms so that the cat hid his nakedness. Tinkle promptly leaped, snapping at the cat, so Abel instinctively raised the poor creature back out of the dog's reach. Again and again he lift..
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Umm, gee, thanks, Bob." Lissianna Argeneau peered around the dark parking lot they were crossing, relieved to see they were alone. "But do you think you could get your hand off my ass?" "Dwayne." "What?" She glanced up into his handsome face with confusion. "My name is Dwayne," he explained with a grin. "Oh." She sighed. "Well, , can you get your hand off my ass?" -Dwayne & Lissianna"
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It's every woman's nightmare. Waking up in a sexy man's bed only to find he doesn't want you? Definitely a nightmare.
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I'll take over from here." "Take over?" Leigh asked with amusement. "You did most of it to begin with." Valerie shrugged and grabbed a ladle to give the chili a stir, saying lightly, "You can return the favor when I'm pregnant." Anders stared at Valerie, her words reverberating in his head. When she was pregnant? He immediately started to imagine just that, Valerie glowing and beautiful, her belly rounded with his child. "Has she agreed to ..
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Well, you look..." Mirabeau hesitated as Lissianna reached them, then finally finished with, "the same. What happened?" "Anemic." She spat the word with annoyance. "But he looked so healthy," Jeanne protested. "Padded shoulders and bottled tan," she said. "And that's not all." "What else could there be?" Mira asked dryly. Lissianna grimaced. "He had a cucumber down his pants." Jeanne gave a disbelieving giggle, but Mirabeau groaned, a..
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She is nice," Valerie said with a smile. "Nothing like I would have imagined a vampire would be like . . . if I'd have even imagined vampires existed," she added wryly. "But then you're all nice. Well, all of you that I've met since escaping Count Rip-Your-Throat-Out." "We're just people, Valerie. We have good ones and bad ones and some in between," Anders said quietly. She shook her head, a crooked smile on her face. "And you're delusional..
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She didn't mind fish-and-chip-type fish, but she had never cared for the fishy flavor some fish had and that fish down on the table in the kitchen had looked pretty fishy to her.
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Bastien still felt empty. Blood wasn't what he was hungry for. What he yearned for. What he really wanted was someone of his own. Someone to complete him. He wanted to belong to someone. To someone who could accept his differences and embrace him with them. He wanted unconditional love. More to the point, he wanted Terri's unconditional love.
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There's something wrong with the baby. I need you here, but not if he isn't out of commission. Go cut his head off or something." "What?" Valerie asked with disbelief. "Who do you think I am? The Queen of Hearts?" "No, if you were you'd already have cut his head off," Leigh snapped and then groaned in agony." --
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Anders saw that the sliding side door was still open as he neared it and ran right up to it; phone still to his ear, terror in his heart, and gun in his hand . . . and then he just stood there, staring. Inside, Leigh was hunched on the van floor, clutching Valerie's hand and shrieking. Valerie was on her knees, howling along with the woman, but even as he looked in, she turned and thumped the driver's seat with what appeared to be a mallet...
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Apparently, he'd finished his call. Now, the man reached through the window to grab the rogue's head and turn it his way so he could examine him. In the next moment, he jerked his arm back out the window with a shouted, "Whoa!" as Valerie suddenly grabbed up the mallet and turned to whack the rogue again, nearly pulverizing Mortimer's hand in the process. "Oh," Valerie said, sounding surprised. "Sorry, I heard movement and thought he was st..
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All right, if you won't tell me your age, tell me how many brothers and sisters you have," she suggested. "Why?" Anders asked with amusement. "Because as much as I enjoy your kisses, I don't like being kissed by people I know nothing about," Valerie said bluntly, and then stopped to turn to him in question when she realized his steps had faltered and he'd come to a dead halt. His expression was priceless, she had to say. It briefly looked l..
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I am not so naive that I have not heard of adultery. And while I am very forbearing in a lot of things, should I ever get wind that you are sharing my 'that' with anyone else, I shall surely cut it off and mount it on the mantel.
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Turning back, she nodded at the man, offering another smile as she passed. She suspected they'd passed him about a dozen times in the grocery store during their back and forth. He looked vaguely familiar, and his smile was almost flirty, which was something Anders had apparently noticed, if she were to judge by the scowl presently on his face. Goodness, Anders looked almost jealous, Valerie thought, her smile unintentionally widening as she..
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What is a life mate?" "If you would care to sit down, I'll explain," Anders said quietly. Valerie sat down. She could hardly do anything else. She had to know what a life mate was. She suspected it was important. Vital, even. She just didn't know why. "Mind reading is one of the skills that evolved through the nanos. Immortals can read most immortals younger than them, and occasionally even immortals older than themselves. But they can read..
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You still haven't asked?" He didn't wait for a response, but simply shook his head and continued on toward the driveway. "Asked me what?" Anders asked, glancing to her curiously. Valerie hesitated and then simply spat it out. "Do you love me?" Anders stilled, his breath leaving him in a long exhale. Then he just stood there staring at her until Valerie began to worry that the answer was no and he didn't want to admit it. "If you don't, just..
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Anders disentangled himself from Valerie's clinging arms and took a step back. He paused to take several breaths, attempting to give his brain a chance to recover before turning toward Lucian. Once he faced the man, he simply asked, "What did you say?" "I said I'd rather my wife not look out our French doors and see your bare ass if you don't mind," Lucian said succinctly. Anders glanced down at himself, relieved to see that, as he'd though..
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