Someone to Watch Over Me

by Lisa Kleypas

“No…I don’t know, I…can’t remember anything…”

Her name is Vivien Duvall.”

“Attempted murder, no doubt about it. Heavy bruising and finger marks around the throat, not to mention a blow to the head. According to Linley, she’ll be all right…but there is one difficulty. She’s lost her memory. She can’t provide a single detail of what happened, or even recall her own name.”

“There is nothing, among the things I once believed to be true, which it is not permissible to doubt…”

“I think the truth is something you recognize with your heart, even when the evidence seems to prove otherwise.”

A beautiful woman, a fire on the hearth, a roomful of books, and a bottle of wine…It might not have been every man’s idea of heaven, but God knew it was his.

“I want you to stay with me,” he said hoarsely. “I want you to be mine.”

“Are you certain I’m not Vivien?” she asked in a stricken whisper. “The things you said about me…the men I slept with…the things in that diary…That wasn’t me?”

A man wasn’t entitled to lie or take advantage of others merely because he didn’t respect them.

“Believe me…the only place in the world I want to be is wherever you are.”

From now on he would make her life comfortable, pleasurable, if only she would allow him.