The Rogue Not Taken (Scandal & Scoundrel, #1)

by Sarah MacLean

“What have I told you about having opinions? You’ll destroy yourself! And your sisters with you! Do not do something that you will regret!”

“What did you do?” She lifted her chin to the second floor of the house. “To deserve defenestration?” His brows rose. “To deserve what?” She sighed. “Defenestration. The tossing of an object from a window.”

Absolutely one of my favorite words

“First, I wasn’t tossed. I left of my own volition. And second, any woman who uses a word like defenestration is surely intelligent enough to divine what I was doing before I exited the building.”