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“Well, thank you very much, Miss.” “What…are you thanking me for?” Her voice sounded strange to her ears. He tipped his hat. “The first good news I’ve had since I arrived in London.”
“Well, that’s not entirely true. He wanted me to help him rise.” Lena lifted her eyebrow, and Belle rolled her eyes.
What had she told him two days ago? That she wasn’t married? It had been a rare moment of boldness. Leave it to providence to ensure she’d be mortified for it.
She needed change. She couldn’t go on this way, trying to make the wrong boot fit. Perhaps for ten weeks, she could wear a different shoe.
Your sister, understandably, enjoyed the champagne more than she enjoyed the gentlemen,” Mama confided.
Don’t let anyone else decide what’s closed off to you.”
“I don’t make it a habit to talk behind a lady’s back, Inspector.” He eyed the man up and down. “Then again, a lady doesn’t usually feel the need to turn hers on me.”
There is no exquisite beauty…without some strangeness in the proportion.
She wanted all the versions of him. What he showed the world, what he didn’t. Was it so naive to hope he could want all the versions of her in return?
It touched him in a deeply unexpected way, that she wanted to help him care for her. That she was caring for him in kind. He couldn’t remember the last time someone had taken care of him.
“Fucking glorious.” He pressed his cheek to hers, and she felt the wide stretch of his smile. “I’m not as deft with adjectives as you are.”
“Sweetheart, I already know. And believe me, I’m already frightened.” He exhaled slowly; his eyes were very, very green. “God help me, Belle, I love you too.”
the first thing a woman does when she sheds an onerous man is raise a glass to her future.
“I’d rather wait for your circumstances than your heart.”
who you are is never something to keep silent about.”
“For all my life, I’ve been grasping. You are the only thing that has ever held on.” His thumb moved gently over her lower lip. “That’s not the kind of love you wait for. It’s the kind of love you live in.”
“Let them talk. Let them say whatever the hell they please.” He tilted her chin. “It doesn’t matter. I’ll tell you the good news.”
