The Company of Fiends (Tempting Monsters, #2)

by Kathryn Moon

We've walked a park together once, but you were right in my neglect of flowers, little one. - A lady's suitor

This was ours, not theirs,"

"Goose down pillows never did a man any harm," Ronan quipped cheerfully.

And there finally appears to be time...for us."

"I'm here because you're here."

Here, you are my little pet and my exquisite Hazel,"

I love you, Hazelnut."

"I will await you."

"Esther Reed."

MY BABYYYY

Hunter's lamplight gaze was glowing on me, his lips softly curved. That was pride glowing on his face, and it straightened my back and lifted my chin.

And I barely know how to love myself most days, but loving you is exceptionally easy and somehow making it a bit easier to extend that—"