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“I don’t think I want one after all,” she mumbled, placing the little ring gently onto the cloth. “We’ll take it,” St. Vincent stunned her by saying. He picked up the gold circlet. As Evie glanced up at him with wide eyes, he added curtly, “They’re just words. It means nothing.”
Famous last words sir
He was naked, or at least the upper half of him was. He slept on his stomach, his smoothly muscled arms curved around the pillow beneath his head.
Fml. Everyone knows that's the hottest way a man can sleep :/
Gasping, St. Vincent lifted his head to stare at her as if she were a variety of creature he had never seen before. “Good Lord,” he whispered, his expression not one of gratification, but of something close to alarm.
Oh he knows he's cooked
“I don’t like that word.” “That’s a pity. Because it’s one of my favorites, and I intend to keep using it whenever it applies.” “Then it is fortunate we will see each other so seldom after we return to London.”
Got his ass
“Just because I’ve never tried doesn’t mean that I can’t, you judgmental bitch! It simply means that I haven’t wanted to.”
He did NOT-
Just as Evie thought he had fallen asleep, he murmured, “Where shall we walk first today, lovey? The biscuit baker, I s’pose…” Realizing that he imagined this was one of her long-ago childhood visits, Evie replied softly, “Oh yes.” Hastily she knuckled away the excess moisture from her eyes. “I want an iced bun…and a cone of broken biscuits…and then I want to come back here and play dice with you.”
Stop why am i about to cry
“It’s a mistake, you know. You have no idea of what you’ll be exposed to…the obscenities and lewd comments, the lecherous gazes, the groping and pinching…and that’s just at my house. Imagine what it would be like here.”
LMFAO
The l-last time I tr-tried to run away, he blackened my eye and spl-split my lip.” “Did he?” Sebastian was silent for a long moment, and then he spoke with chilling softness. “I’m going to tear him limb from limb.”
HELL YEAH
Cam had never seen anything like the mute longing that St. Vincent felt for his own wife. No one could fail to observe that whenever Evie entered the room, St.Vincent practically vibrated like a tuning fork.
OH PERIOD
“I’m a Rom,” Cam replied matter-of-factly. “Of course I believe in ghosts.” “Only half Romany. Which led me to assume that the rest of you was at least marginally sane and rational.” “The other half is Irish,” Cam said, a touch apologetically. “Christ,” St. Vincent said again, shaking his head as he strode away.
LMFAO BYEEE
Struggling a little with the heavy door, she pushed it open— —and reared back in startled surprise as she saw not Annabelle Hunt’s trim figure, but the hulking form of her uncle Peregrine.
Oh fuck
Blindly Evie turned to flee, but to her amazement, Bullard moved to block her way. “’E paid me a sovereign to fetch you,” Bullard muttered. “That’s as much as I make in a month.”
Bullard you SUCK
He subjected her to a brief but thorough inspection, his hands running lightly over her, his gaze searching her pale face. His voice was astonishingly tender. “Are you hurt, Evie? Look up at me, love. Yes. Sweetheart…did they do you any injury?”
Oh he's GONE for her
“You’ll have to think of a way to solve this, Evie. Think of something fast…because otherwise…” He paused to nip hungrily at her ear, “…otherwise I’m about to screw you senseless.”
THE WAY I CHOKED
“You need to go to bed,” he continued, his own breathing not quite steady as he eased her closer. His gaze drifted slowly from her face to the round outline of her breasts, and back again, and a low, humorless laugh escaped him. “And I need to go there with you, damn it. But since I can’t…Come here.”
YUM
Sebastian felt an impact in his side, as if someone had punched him with a fist, and a burst of fiery pain as a lead slug tore through muscle and soft tissue, severing a network of arteries in its path.
HE TOOK A LITERAL BULLET FOR HER. I'M SICK TO MY STOMACH
Dizzily Sebastian reached up to clutch at his coat. “He aimed for Evie,” Sebastian said hoarsely. His lips had gone numb, and he licked at them before continuing. “Keep her safe…keep her…”
ALL HE CARES ABOUT IS HER
“Perhaps he thought that harming her was the best way to revenge himself against you.” Sebastian’s head was swimming, making it difficult to think clearly. “No…” he muttered. “Could only be true if…he thought I cared for her…but everyone knows…not a love match.”
Suuuuure jan!
Her palm rested over the weak throb of his heart, and her fingertips traced over the thread of fine gold chain that hung around his neck. Following the chain, she discovered the Scottish-gold wedding band dangling from the end of it.
THIS SHOULD BE ILLEGAL OMG
couldn’t be certain,” Cam said in a monotone voice. “I had to take the shot when I saw it.” His face was blank, but his golden eyes were brilliant with unshed tears. Evie realized that he had just been forced to kill a man he had known since boyhood.
Cam :(
