Evie ” came his faint whisper “I’m going to your mother see…she’s got ’em to leave a back door open…so I can steal into ’eaven.

Because you need me," he said, drawing in his breath as she squirmed against him. "Just as I need you." He crushed his mouth to hers. "I've needed you for years." Another kiss, this one deep and drugging, his tongue searching her intimately

It was often in small moments that significant things were revealed.

I knew I would replay the scene countless times in the years before me, each time thinking of different things I should have said and done. But all I did was walk away without looking back.

... I discovered life sometimes has a way of giving you what you need, but not in the form you expect.

Her chances of a decent marriage were about to be dashed-and all because of a ferret.

Ah, there’s the governess voice. All stern and disapproving. It makes me feel like a naughty schoolboy.