Lord ​of Scoundrels (Scoundrels 3.) 4 csillagozás

He had never in his life raised a hand against a female. That sort of behavior showed not only a contemptible lack of control, but cowardice as well. Only cowards used deadly weapons against the weaponless.

chapter 5, page 79

Wife or mistress, it’s all the same,” he’d told his friends often enough. “Once you let a lady—virtuous or not—fasten upon you, you become the owner of a piece of troublesome property, where the tenants are forever in revolt and into which you are endlessly pouring money and labor. All for the occasional privilege—at her whim—of getting what you could get from any streetwalker for a few shillings.”

chapter 5, page 89

By gad—do you mean to say I am as important a possession as your cattle?” She pressed her hand to her heart. “Oh, Dain, you are too devastatingly romantic. I am altogether overcome.”

chapter 9, page 150

Bertie had told her Dain was a very large man. She had half expected a hulking gorilla. She had not been prepared for a stallion: big and splendidly proportioned—and powerfully muscled, if what his snug trousers outlined was any indication.

chapter 2, page 30

It is as your sister and friend that I tell you Dain is a splendid catch. I advise you to set your hooks and reel him in.”
Jessica took a long swallow of her cognac. “This is not a trout, Genevieve. This is a great, hungry shark.”
“Then use a harpoon.”

chapter 2, page 44

Any idea what she said, Dain?"
„Yes.”
„What was it?”
„Men are ignorant brutes.”
„You sure?”
„Quite.”

chapter 1, page 26

He looked at her. Her hair had fallen over her eyes. Turning toward her, he brushed it away. „I collect you've survived,” he said gruffly.

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