“Life is short. Smile while you still have teeth.”

“Oh you rebel you!”

“Guys who know how to use a blowdryer... Their hair is too long!”

“No.” She smiled. “I am exactly where I need to be.I have no desire to enter negotiations with LordGarrett and his heir.”He couldn’t keep down his dark pleasure at that.”

“She gifted him with that soft smile. And it did thatstrange thing to his insides. He would probably leada revolt against the king if she asked him to do itwhile wearing that smile.”

“Graciousness in serving and being served marks the lives of leaders who have made the largest impact on my life.”

“But it had always been that smile. Not her positionas Henry Wilcox’s possible wife nor the possibilitythat he could take his enemies down by manipulatingher family. Those hadn’t been the things that haddriven him when it came to his feelings for her.It had been that smile. Through the shadows of thetheater that first night. When their eyes had met. Shehad smiled. Simply. Warmly. Looking directly at him,unaware that she should be afraid.”