Temptation turns you. It makes you into something you never dreamed, it presses you to give up everything you ever loved, it calls you to sell your soul for one, fleeting moment.
Sarah MacLeanWould you like to cross another item off this list today?" "I should like that very much. Which do you propose?" "I think it's time to try riding astride". "You can't mean..." "Oh, but I do, indeed, mean, Empress.
Sarah MacLeando not like this taste for adventure you have developed, sister.โ โI am afraid I cannot guarantee I shall be rid of it anytime soon.
Sarah MacLeanNick spoke again. "Her legitimacy will be questioned." Gabriel thought for several moments. "If our mother married her father, it means that the marchioness must have converted to Catholicism upon arriving in Italy. The Catholic Church would never have acknowledged her marriage in the Church of England." "Ah, so it is we who are illegitimate." Nick's words were punctuated with a wry smile. "To Italians, at least," Gabriel said. "Luckily, we are English." "Excellent. That works out well for us.
Sarah MacLeanAnd as the bullet ripped through his flesh, Ralston was consumed by a single thought: I never told her that I loved her.
Sarah MacLeanJuliana?โ the words were low and farโtoo calm for her husband, who had found that he rather enjoyed the full spectrum of emotion now that he had experienced it. โYes?โ โWhat are you doing twenty feet in the air?โ โLooking for a book.โ โWould you mind very much returning to the earth?โ โWhat are you thinking, climbing to the rafters in your condition?โ โI am not an invalid, Simon, I still have use of all my extremes.โ โYou do indeedโparticularly your extreme ability to try my patienceโI believe, however, that you mean extremities.
Sarah MacLean