Chasing the Duke Quotes

“No more chasing a duke is required. Unless you’d like to catch him.” Camille smiled and seized his lips beneath hers, deciding that was a promise she meant to make her devilish duke keep.”
― Tracy Sumner, Chasing the Duke

“Camille dropped her brow to his and felt love tear down the walls she’d placed around her heart.”
― Tracy Sumner, Chasing the Duke

“How can I stay mad at you when you say all these lovely things and you know I’ve loved you forever? Wanted you even longer.”
― Tracy Sumner, Chasing the Duke

“I love you,” he whispered for her alone. “I would have told you, bathed you in adoration, if you hadn’t run away from me after what was the most magical night of my life.”
― Tracy Sumner, Chasing the Duke

“Excellent! A fine businessman your artiste in addition to being a creative genius. We’re agreed then.” Tristan sat up and held out his hand to seal the deal, an American tradition he planned to start regularly employing because his countrymen disliked it so much.”
― Tracy Sumner, Chasing the Duke

“I’m in love with your sister. The one who battled the angry swan, the termagant. Yes, that’s her.”
― Tracy Sumner, Chasing the Duke

“Chase your duchess, my darling. Prove to her you will.” So chase he would.”
― Tracy Sumner, Chasing the Duke

“I don’t want you in control. I want you feral, insatiable. You. Your body, your soul. Your mind can stay behind for now. Take me, I’m begging you,” she said and dragged his lips to hers, whispering against them, “there’s always the next time for control. The after, remember?”
― Tracy Sumner, Chasing the Duke

“Your body is a treasure, Princess.” He suckled the curve of her breast, his hand sliding over her stomach, her waist, her thigh. “And I’m going to worship at the altar.”
― Tracy Sumner, Chasing the Duke

“With a knowing grin, she crooked her finger, beckoning. “Come here, Your Grace, and make it up to me for telling the world about my Serpentine battle with a swan.”
― Tracy Sumner, Chasing the Duke

“You’re the loveliest thing I’ve ever seen, Camille Bellington. I want you to know that before I lose myself in you, when I’ll be unable to string together a sentence, I fear.”
― Tracy Sumner, Chasing the Duke

“He stared, unable to find a witty retort. Compose a plea, a confession, an avowal. Make light of an impossible situation with a smile, laugh, or wink. He was undone by her beauty, by the bashful look on her face. By the knowledge she’d loved him when he wasn’t lovable, that she’d cared and, somehow, miraculously, hadn’t gotten over it.”
― Tracy Sumner, Chasing the Duke

“She crossed to him and wordlessly started unbuttoning his shirt. When he took a stuttered inhalation as her fingers brushed his chest, she glanced at him through long, dark lashes. “I propose we get the first time out of the way since you made the second sound so thrilling. Apologies for being forward.”
― Tracy Sumner, Chasing the Duke

“Somehow, I’ve gone from wanting to tear your clothes off to wanting to spank you.” He laughed harshly and banged his boot against the bench. “Which can be done in the same session actually.” “That’s revolting.” Wasn’t it? “Princess, don’t judge until you’ve tried it.”
― Tracy Sumner, Chasing the Duke

“And why, pray tell, at this late stage of the game, should it matter? You were my childhood fantasy of the perfect man. My heart galloped when you were in the same room. I staged a thousand silly plays with you as the hero.” She smiled, and she had no mirror, but it felt bitter. “But it was long ago, Your Grace. I grew up. And you left.”
― Tracy Sumner, Chasing the Duke

“Tristan Tierney, Duke of Mercer, Viscount Wimble, Baron Easley, took a thoughtful drag on his cheroot and blew smoke into the frigid Yorkshire night.”
― Tracy Sumner, Chasing the Duke

“No viscountess has a hobby such as this. Practically sounds, dear God, academic.”
― Tracy Sumner, Chasing the Duke