Tall, Duke, and Scandalous Quotes

“In case you didn’t already know, my love, I never intend to let you go. I belong to you, and you belong to me.”
― Amy Rose Bennett, Tall, Duke, and Scandalous

“Somehow, some way, despite all the trial and tribulations they’d been through and were yet to face, they’d forged an unbreakable bond. An everlasting love. Jane could feel it in Christopher’s kiss. In his touch as his hands swept over her body.”
― Amy Rose Bennett, Tall, Duke, and Scandalous

“Would it help if I told you that I, too, know that feeling of being drunk with deep emotion?” added Christopher in a low, tender voice. “That whenever I’m with you like this, I feel as though I’m intoxicated. As though I’ve downed an entire bottle of potent brandy and my head is spinning with the wonder of it all. And when you’re not here, it feels like all the air has gone out of the room. That all the lights have been snuffed out. That somehow my day is not complete unless you are in it.”
― Amy Rose Bennett, Tall, Duke, and Scandalous

“As a former cavalry officer, he’d grown used to facing danger, even death. Strange how the prospect of losing his heart to his wife suddenly seemed more terrifying.”
― Amy Rose Bennett, Tall, Duke, and Scandalous

“Come for me, Jane,” he grunted between panted breaths. “I want to watch you come around my ramming cock. I want to watch your face as I fill you with my seed.”
― Amy Rose Bennett, Tall, Duke, and Scandalous

“Miles Dempster had destroyed so many things that long-ago summer. Perhaps the worst injury of all had been the irreparable damage he’d done to her ability to trust a man ever again.”
― Amy Rose Bennett, Tall, Duke, and Scandalous

“God, yes.” He grasped her waist, holding her steady while his other hand dragged the head of his cock toward her entrance. “Fuck me. Use me. I’ll give you everything I have and more.”
― Amy Rose Bennett, Tall, Duke, and Scandalous

“I want to celebrate you,” he said. “Us. Right here, right now.” He brushed a stray lock of her glossy brown hair behind her ear. “There’s something about you, Jane, that has brought me to life again. For the first time in a very long time, I have hope.”
― Amy Rose Bennett, Tall, Duke, and Scandalous

“Her husband’s unexpected confession pierced her heart with a shard of such acute longing that it stole her breath. The urge to let loose the tight bonds securing her own emotions was strong. Tenderness—perhaps even an emotion akin to love—was stirring in her breast, threatening to bud and grow and unfurl into something glorious.”
― Amy Rose Bennett, Tall, Duke, and Scandalous

“you were right,” she murmured into the velvet shadows. “I forgot everything but you.” Christopher caught her hand and raised it to his lips. “Now you know how I feel,” he murmured. “All I see is you, Jane. All I think about is you. You consume me.”
― Amy Rose Bennett, Tall, Duke, and Scandalous

“Oh, how shockingly wanton she’d become. And how unremorseful. To own one’s joy in sexual pleasure was liberating and she wouldn’t be ashamed about that.”
― Amy Rose Bennett, Tall, Duke, and Scandalous

“I want you helpless,” he breathed against her lips when he at last came up for air. “Writhing in ecstasy and completely at my mercy. I’m going to take you, and take you some more until you are shuddering and boneless and incoherent with pleasure. Do you understand, Jane?”
― Amy Rose Bennett, Tall, Duke, and Scandalous

“He couldn’t seem to appease the fire in his veins. In fact, if O’Connor wasn’t due to arrive any minute, he’d have had Jane’s skirts flipped up and his head between her legs faster than a Covent Garden pickpocket could strike.”
― Amy Rose Bennett, Tall, Duke, and Scandalous

“He didn’t believe in happily-ever-afters, and he’d only just met Jane. He was mistaken about what he was feeling. The warm glow suffusing his limbs and his chest were merely remnants, dying embers of the passionate bed sport they’d enjoyed.”
― Amy Rose Bennett, Tall, Duke, and Scandalous

“Wrap those spectacular legs around me, love,” he murmured. “I’m about to make you mine.”
― Amy Rose Bennett, Tall, Duke, and Scandalous

“Despite all of her other reservations and doubts about the future, she was absolutely certain that she wouldn’t regret spending the night in the arms of the Duke of Roxby.”
― Amy Rose Bennett, Tall, Duke, and Scandalous

“But…what? How? It’s not possible,” declared her mother. “You’re…you’re hardly a catch, Jane.”
― Amy Rose Bennett, Tall, Duke, and Scandalous

“He stretched out a hand. “Come here, Jane. Your fiancé wishes to kiss you,”
― Amy Rose Bennett, Tall, Duke, and Scandalous

“Yes…” She smiled softly and her green eyes glowed warmly like a forest pool lit by sunlight on a summer’s day. And Christopher was transfixed. What was it about this woman that had him in such a lather? He was not the sort of man to wax lyrical about anyone’s eyes, or be stirred by a voice or even the scent of a woman’s soap.”
― Amy Rose Bennett, Tall, Duke, and Scandalous

“While I can’t promise you love—I’m afraid I’m rather cynical when it comes to that emotion—I also don’t want a cold, passionless marriage. And even though you’ll have your own suite of rooms, I want you in my bed as much as possible.” He leaned back, watching her. “I want you, and I mean to have you in any and every way that I can. How do you feel about that particular disclosure, Jane?”
― Amy Rose Bennett, Tall, Duke, and Scandalous

“Despite his attraction, despite his simmering lust, Christopher was determined not to develop any sort of deep emotional attachment to her.”
― Amy Rose Bennett, Tall, Duke, and Scandalous

“He made her feel alive. Real. A woman of flesh and bone. Of panted breaths and tingling nerves and a racing heart. She was somehow more than the drifting shadow she’d been for so long.”
― Amy Rose Bennett, Tall, Duke, and Scandalous

“And when she was alone in her bed, fantasizing about these fictional men, she sometimes sought satisfaction by her own hand. She wasn’t ashamed of what she did. She wasn’t a saint and neither was she made of stone. She was human after all.”
― Amy Rose Bennett, Tall, Duke, and Scandalous

“Oh dear. Jane’s chest tightened with guilt. How awful she must seem. How callous. “I did,” she said. Even though she had no idea what the duke’s malady might be, she added, “And I apologize unreservedly for my thoughtless words, Your Grace. My own affliction, so to speak”—she gestured at her left cheek—“has perhaps influenced my thinking. I shouldn’t have mocked you. That was unaccountably rude.”
― Amy Rose Bennett, Tall, Duke, and Scandalous

“You’re…you’re the duke.” It wasn’t a question. In that moment, Jane knew it. The man sketched a mocking bow. “I am indeed. Christopher Marsden, the sixth Duke of Roxby. And you are?” “Horrified.”
― Amy Rose Bennett, Tall, Duke, and Scandalous

“Good Lord above. Jane had never seen so many bare breasts and behinds in all her life.”
― Amy Rose Bennett, Tall, Duke, and Scandalous