I love these pet names," she said, gazing soulfully up into his eyes, "Nitwit. Sap skull. Termagant. How they make my heart flutter!
Loretta ChaseThe Challenge is to pry Bertie loose from Dain and his circle of oafish dengenerates,โ Jessica said severely. โIt would be far more profitable to pry Dain loose for yourself,โ said her grandmother. โHe is very wealthy, his lineage is excellent, he is young, strong, and healthy, and you feel a powerful attraction.โ โHe isnโt husband material.โ โWhat I have described is perfect husband material.โ said her grandmother. โI donโt want a husband.โ โJessica, no woman does who can regard men objectively. And you have always been magnificently objective.
Loretta ChaseLife had a way of wrecking her careful plans, again and again. Roulette was more predictable than life. Small wonder she was so lucky at it.Life was not a wheel going round and round. It never, ever returned to the same place. It didn't stick to simple red and black and a certain array of numbers. It laughed at logic.Beneath its pretty overdress of man-imposed order, life was anarchy.
Loretta ChaseYou are well aware of your effect on women, and I'm sure it gratifies you no end to watch them sigh and salivate over your magnificent physique. I do not wish to spoil your fun, Dain, but I do ask you to consider my pride and refrain from embarrassing me in public." Women...sighing and salivating...over his magnificent physique. Maybe the brutal bedding had destroyed a part of her brain.
Loretta Chase