“Damned woman. Ever since she’d dropped into hisarms last night, he’d been tied in knots. On one hand, desire gripped him. On the other, the need to turn her over his knee until she admitted it was the same for her rode him. On the third hand, if he had a third hand, lay the question of who shewas. Why had he never seen her out insociety? But more important, why was heso conflicted over this rude, irritatinggirl? Hell, that was like five hands. He’dhave to be Kali to decipher his responseto Liliana Claremont.Geoffrey Wentworth, Earl of Stratford”
“She turned her head to him then. Her face was as cool as the sea off Cornwall, yet her eyes blazed purple fire. "No, thank you, my Lord", she said bitingly. "I find I no longer care for your library, or anything in it.”