A Dark and Stormy Knight Quotes

“You deflowered a Baron’s daughter, no, a Commissioner’s daughter—your boss’s daughter—before her wedding and got her to pay you for it? Christ, Morley, I’ve misjudged you all this time. Color me bloody impressed.”
― Kerrigan Byrne, A Dark and Stormy Knight

“Go to a church if you want to judge, Madam, we’re all here to commit a cardinal sin, maybe several.”
― Kerrigan Byrne, Seducing a Stranger

“For the first time, he kissed her as if he should be doing nothing else. As if his mind was empty of naught but this moment. And the next. As if they were immortals who might go on kissing for a hundred years and never tire of it.”
― Kerrigan Byrne, A Dark and Stormy Knight

“Of all the bastardly bacchanalian bullshit.”
― Kerrigan Byrne, Seducing a Stranger

“When the guilty escape justice, it is denied the innocent, as well.”
― Kerrigan Byrne, A Dark and Stormy Knight

“He broke the kiss before long to cast about for a place for them to go.

“The fountain,” she panted, sliding her hands to lock behind his neck so she could pull him back down to her mouth, her eyes homed in on his lips.

“You’ll be exposed,” he pointed out, realizing how ridiculous he sounded even as he said it. But now that he’d decided to have her, he was jealous that even the stars would have the chance to see her beauty.”
― Kerrigan Byrne, A Dark and Stormy Knight

“Tell me how this works. I’ve never… hired a man to make love to me before. And I confess I’m ignorant of how else to proceed rather than plainly. So, would you do me the kindness – er – the honor?”
― Kerrigan Byrne, A Dark and Stormy Knight

“He was no hero. These were just things he did, sweeping up small crimes while he chased nightmares through the night.

Back when he'd attempted to sleep, he'd been tortured by them. Eventually, those nightmares had seeped into the daylight, following him from the dark until they filled every corner of every room. Shades and specters. The ghosts of those he'd killed, of those who'd endeavored to kill him. Of the souls he'd failed to save and the monsters who'd escaped justice.

For decades they'd haunted him, tormented him endlessly each time he dared close his eyes. Until he'd done something about it.

He became the thing from which nightmares ran.”
― Kerrigan Byrne, A Dark and Stormy Knight

“Hers was a face for the sun. She was a spoiled woman experiencing her first heartbreak.

Learning her first terrible truth about the world of men in which she lived.

She didn't know the first thing about pain.

And yet...the courageous way she fought her threatening emotion, tied him up in knots.”
― Kerrigan Byrne, A Dark and Stormy Knight

“I will send you out that door every day. But you must come home to me. I must hold you and love you and make love to you. You must eat properly, and rest appropriately, and find a bloody hobby, do you understand? Something that wastes time, but you enjoy for no reason.”
― Kerrigan Byrne, Seducing a Stranger

“Prudence wondered if he could see the radiance in her heart shining through her eyes. If he knew how every word of his dressing-down had fallen like a Byronic poem on her ears. She wondered if she could ever have anything to say that could mean so much, because all she could come up with was, “I—I love you, too.”
― Kerrigan Byrne, Seducing a Stranger

“Argent stopped him with a hand on his arm. “Is that wise? To go alone?” “I don’t give a dusty fuck if it’s wise,” he growled. “It’s what is happening.”
― Kerrigan Byrne, Seducing a Stranger

“I’ll send anyone to the devil before they hurt you. I am a knight. A man with a code. A warrior with a creed. I vow, from this moment onward to be your knight, wife. Someone who is honor bound to protect your name, your life, and your soul.”
― Kerrigan Byrne, Seducing a Stranger

“You are the epitome of every desire or dream I’ve conceived of since before I can remember, and that is a very specific kind of torment. An unparalleled beauty, a superb lover, a woman of grace and kindness and intellect whom I can only respect and admire. A fantasy in the flesh, here in my house. With my name.”
― Kerrigan Byrne, Seducing a Stranger

“He relaxed against her, allowing her to take some of his weight as they propped each other up, creating a creature of more strength for the sharing of their collective burdens.”
― Kerrigan Byrne, Seducing a Stranger

“Perhaps if I can help you prove me innocent of murder, you’ll think me worthy of your heart.”
― Kerrigan Byrne, Seducing a Stranger

“He wanted to feed her from his hands. To nourish her and the life within. He wanted to buy her things to adorn her loveliness. Gems and ribbons, silk and precious metals. A storm of errant whims and desires swirled and eddied within him until he felt as though his flesh could no longer contain the strength of it. He. Wanted. Her.”
― Kerrigan Byrne, Seducing a Stranger

“That is, I cannot be in your presence and possessed of my wits at the same time. You’re like…a tune in my head I cannot rid myself of. A torrent, or a whirlwind, spinning me until I cannot see my way forward. I can’t have that now. I need to be objective. Unemotional.”
― Kerrigan Byrne, Seducing a Stranger

“For future reference, you’re being neither prudent nor good,” he said in a voice suddenly made of silk.”
― Kerrigan Byrne, Seducing a Stranger

“I order you to take more care with your footing!”
― Kerrigan Byrne, Seducing a Stranger

“You will force some happiness upon him, I think, and it’s the only way, as he will fight you tooth and nail. But he is the best of men, he deserves every happiness.”
― Kerrigan Byrne, Seducing a Stranger

“Why did he have to be so categorically inaccessible?”
― Kerrigan Byrne, Seducing a Stranger

“He took pleasure as he gave it, and she thought, that was what lovers ought to do.”
― Kerrigan Byrne, Seducing a Stranger

“One of these days,” she whispered, “we’ll make love in a bed.”
― Kerrigan Byrne, A Dark and Stormy Knight

“She existed only in this moment. In this place where he dismantled the woman she was and rebuilt someone new. A creature of desire and darkness, suffused with only on need.

Him. This. Them.”
― Kerrigan Byrne, A Dark and Stormy Knight

“Don’t think,” he ordered in the voice of a man quite used to giving orders.

“Don’t stop,” she begged.”
― Kerrigan Byrne, A Dark and Stormy Knight