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21 " Sir?""Yes""Where do you go at night?"Winter paused and glanced over his shoulder. Joseph was watching him with perceptive eyes for one so young. In that instant, Winter grew tired of lies. "I right wrongs."He expect more questions--Joseph was usually full of them and his answer was too obscure--but the boy merely nodded. "Will you teach me how sometime?"Winter's eyes widened. Teach him to...? His mind instantly balked at the thought of putting Joseph in danger. But were he ever to ask for an apprentice to his Ghost, he knew instinctively that he could find no one with more courage than the lad. "
― Elizabeth Hoyt , Thief of Shadows (Maiden Lane, #4)
22 " Somehow she knew he would take a love affair very seriously indeed. Once that pinpoint focus was engaged, he would throw himself body and soul into the liaison. In the the woman he decided to take as a lover. A shiver ran through her at the thought. To be the object of such ferocious regard was an alluring prospect, but it also gave her pause. "
23 " When you enter a room, all eyes turn to you. You blaze like a torch, lighting the darkest corners, brightening even those who thought they were already well lit. You bring joy and mirth and leave behind a glow that gives hope to those you left.""And you, Mr. Makepeace? Are you one of those who thought themselves well lit?""I am as dark as a pit." Now he was glad her back was turned. "Even your torch will have difficulty lighting my depths. "
24 " Will you make my house a home, Isabel? "
25 " Remember how we once lay together, love? Remember how we became lovers and hoped for a future? That future is alive and here. And taking his hand, she laid it upon her gently swelling belly, where a new life grew. Thus she made him touch Hope "
26 " His eyes narrowed to slits.Make love. Make love to me. Now "
27 " Fuck, you mean?His eyes narrowed to slits.Make love. Make love to me. Now "
28 " Will you make my home a home, Isabel? "
29 " I regard physical lovemaking as something sacrosanct to love. And if I loved a woman enough to take her to my bed, then I would love her enough to marry her. "
30 " For he fully intended to be with her in the future legally and sanctioned by the church in public, intimate and loving in private. "
31 " Fuck, you mean?""His eyes narrowed to slits.Make love. Make love to me. Now "
32 " delicate layers of lace falling from the sleeves at her elbows. The lace was repeated "
33 " Fuck, you mean?"His eyes narrowed to slits."Make love. Make love to me. Now "