There’s always a choice,” Lucian reassured her. “Always.” He kissed herforehead softly. “I love you,” he said. He lips trailed down her face, brushing slowly over her nose, across her eyelids. “I would stay with you forever, until the end ofTime. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Time for us began to be measured by moments when we spoke, and moments when we longed to speak again. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Men were just plain ridiculous with how little time it took them to get handsome. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
He felt, rather than saw, her chin lift toward him. But instead of pulling her hand from his grip and turning away, she tightened her own fingers and unceremoniously, unexpectedly, threw herself down the incline, dragging him with her.Dragging him with her! Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
A phrase began to beat in my ears with a sort of heady excitement: "There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
He didn’t deserve compassion. Sympathy. Not even understanding. He deserved worse, far worse than he had ever been given. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Southern gentleman,” he said aside to him in Arabic. “Do you wish for me to continue this for you?”Caine’s temper shifted to a low simmer in his chest. “Your way takes too long.”“Ma’aleyk, and your way hurts my ears,” he argued. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Maybe I am everything I knew that I would never be. I looked back at Jay and smiled. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Care for her. He was unworthy of such a gift. Unworthy of her blind trust and her sparkling, slightly crooked smiles, let alone her heart. But he wanted her, selfish fool he was and had always been. Care for her? Ah, God, she consumed him. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
The blood dried on his good hand, he passed his palm over her hair. It curled about his wrist and sprung back into displace as the breeze fluttered by. In the firelight, it was golden like the dandelions of which she’d spoken. The ones that had grown along the Franklin riverbank in late summer. The ones he had lost any faith in since he’d committed his first murder there. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
By now, she was far from the scorch of these sands. After the ransom deal, she would be safely married in England. To Ashton. And Caine, who had hurt her far more than anything Abdullah had planned for her with that long, curved dagger, deserved no better than this torment of knowing it. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>