Never Seduce a Scot (The Montgomerys and Armstrongs, #1)

by Maya Banks

A world without sound and sight frightened her.

sweet lass. You’ve always been. You’re my heart, Eveline, and damn the king for taking my heart away from me.”

You are receiving a gift, Laird. Whether you choose to believe so or not, you are receiving something more precious than gold.”

She may not be a mighty warrior, but one thing she’d learned after observing her mother, was that if anything could fell a warrior, it was a determined woman.

I think you have been very misunderstood for a long time now.”

“Why do you stare at me so?” “Because you’re the most beautiful woman I’ve ever had the pleasure of looking upon.”

He covered her completely, but it was she who held him in her tiny hands. She who possessed him, not the other way around.

Anyone who could look at Eveline and not smile was a harder man than he.

Your place is here. With me, at my side. I need you to believe that in your heart, for it is what is in mine.”

“My lady, I don’t simply care for her. I love her. She is my entire life. Without her, I am nothing. I have nothing.”