Ten Things I Hate About the Duke (Difficult Dukes #2)

by Loretta Chase

She’d given him a point, and it nagged at him. Did she give other men points? How many men? How many points?

The smile wasn’t aimed at him, which was provoking. More provoking still was the thought that she had just given Blackwood, the treacherous swine, a point.

“The loyalty remains, in spite of the occasional attempts to kill one another.”

“I must stop your subscription to the Library of Romance,” Cassandra said. “Either that or give you a large dose of Mary Wollstonecraft to restore the balance of your mind.”

In a dark inner dungeon a former self she kept prisoner there and tried to starve to death was asking the same question. Why not?

All he has to do is stand there and gaze deeply into our eyes, and our brains collapse.”

This book was pure joy from start to finish.

I, mute and submissive? I should suffocate him with a pillow while he slept, and say it was heart failure. I should never submit to be treated like this. No woman ought to endure it.”

As much as one wished to, one couldn’t grab these fellows by the lapels and lift them off their feet and give them a good shaking. Actually, one could, and one had done so, but the technique didn’t seem to clarify matters.