The Scandalous Diary of Lily Layton Quotes

“There is something else,” Lord Ambrose murmured, staring at her in a way that was decidedly troubling … and arousing. “Yes?” Then she winced at the breathless quality of her response. “May I paint you?” “Paint me?” she parroted inanely. “Forgive me if I am too forward, but your skin is the most beautiful I’ve ever beheld, and your smile—I feel it should be immortalized on canvas.” Lily stared at the marquess in ill-concealed shock. “I … I didn’t realize you painted,” she said, fumbling for equanimity at his praise. Here was a man who didn’t think she was too pale, or her lips too full, her mouth too wide. “I’ve never seen your paintings.” “They are in a private room in the western wing of Belgrave Manor. There are only a few I trust to see them.” “And I am in that category?” she asked skeptically. “I never said I wanted to show you my work,” he replied with a charming quirk of his lips. “Only that I wish for you to sit for me.”
― Stacy Reid, The Scandalous Diary of Lily Layton