“Beaumont wanted Esmond very badly. Esmond wanted Beaumont’s wife. And she didn’t want anybody.”
“I didn’t want anybody seeing my fire until I burned them with it.”
“And even if she could discern what future she wanted . . . How would she bear it if that future didn’t want her?”
“Ash, I want you. Bad, very very bad. But you deserve better than this”
“And she didn’t want to escape. She wanted to be kissed in the sunlight by a gorgeous man. She just wanted some other man, not this complicated creature who had more secrets than she could even begin to imagine.But it didn’t matter what her brain wanted. Her body, her mouth, her soul wanted him, and she heard a quiet little sound of desire and knew that it had come from her.”
“That was one of the worst things about losing your wife, I found: your wife is the very person you want to discuss it all with.”