Cora frowned down at him. “I’ve seen worse.” She answered honestly, “But I think perhaps you shouldn’t be alone tonight.” “Is that an invitation?” Roger questioned hopefully. “My medical opinion.” Cora corrected. “The same I would give anyone in your state.” “Everyone I care about is in the same

“You didn’ have a Mommy and Daddy?” The tot inquires, edging a bit closer. “But they said you’re a pwincess.” There’s a note of accusation in his voice, and I wonder just how recently he’s joined the nursery – and what he went through before arriving. “I didn’t know I was a Princess until very rece

“You know I love you with everything I am, and everything I ever will be?” Sinclair inquires, searing me with his emerald gaze. “You know you’re my whole world, and I’d be lost without you?” I counter, blinking back tears. Sinclair answers me with a ferocious kiss, and then it starts: Every lie, e

“Wait,” I object, wanting to pause, but not for the reason Sinclair thinks. He looks up from his lazy exploration of my breasts, giving me his full attention. “I really am sorry for everything that happened while you were away.” I whisper, tangling my fingers in his dark hair, “for everything I did.

Isabel jolted slightly, as if she was so busy trying to cope with his sudden proximity that she wasn’t prepared to hear his deep voice as well. Her bright gaze flitted up to his before retreating again. “Hello.” She answered, turning her back and making herself busy folding laundry. A lock of aubur