Through the Storm (Le Veq Family #1)

by Beverly Jenkins

Mahti’s voice rose on the night. “It is already done. If I burn in the Christian hell, so be it. What hell can be worse than slavery!”

“How about a dalliance with a man you do know?”

How sauve!!!!

“Fair enough, but Araminta’s dreams are very powerful. You may become my reward whether you like it or not.”

Uno reverse

“You’re going to have to lean back a bit, Miss Fontaine. I won’t be able to see clearly with you sitting up as stiff as a fence post. I promise I won’t bite unless asked.”

Take all my dollars

“Well, then you should be glad we met.” “Why?” “Because no man should get everything he desires.”

Tell him

“What’s it like to be free?” Under the torches’ flickering light, he shrugged. “It is not easy residing in a country that holds our race in such low esteem, but I am a man of the sea. I’ve seen too much of the world and accomplished too much to accept that I’m only three-fifths of a man.”

He had never confronted such a situation before. Didn’t this contraband know the LeVeq charm had dazzled women all over the world?

“A gentleman would never speak that way.” “I’m not a gentleman, Miss Fontaine. It says so in the Constitution.”

“Oh, for heaven’s sake,” Archer countered, “Mama is a living, breathing, feeling woman. She doesn’t need her baby Phillipe pretending he was born by immaculate conception.”