61 Quotes by Christy English

You do not deserve a rogue like me, Arabella. But you have me. I am yours, for the rest of my life.""And I am yours," she said."God help me," he quipped.Arabella laughed, shoving her elbow in his side. He laughed with her, his lips playing over hers until all else was forgotten.

She lay back against the soft carpet and bedding, contentment filling every curve of her body and every limb, overflowing in her heart.

Forever is a long time," he said.He lifted her in his arms and carried her toward the soft feathered mattress of their marriage bed. "Our love will last at least that long," she said.He kissed her, his lips lingering over hers. "Longer.

All she could see in Raymond's eyes was sorrow and an unspoken longing that reminded her of her own pain.

He had been her one refuge in a hostile world. She could not bring herself to forget.

He thought he saw pain in her eyes, a pain that mirrored his own. But in the next moment, that pain was gone, and he was left alone in his.

Startled, she met his eyes again, and he thought he saw a glimmer of the girl he once had known peek out at him from behind the veil of the past.

She had run from men's anger all her life, and when she could not run, she had hidden within herself. But now, standing with Pembroke, she did not feel threatened. Some secret part of her soul was certain that he would never hurt her.

Whatever would happen tomorrow, this was why she had come. So that she might feel safe like this again, if only for one night.