You are making this fuss because I did not issue a proper proposal?Very well." He began to kneel and she grasped a fistful of his hairand yanked him back to a standing position. He yelped and rubbed his head. "Even you cannot deny that yourbackground and family connections are less than desirable, yet I amstill willing to do the honorable thing and marry you.

Their encounter confirmed what he had been unwilling to admit. Charlotte didn’t taste, smell, or feel like any other woman he had ever known. She wasn’t like any other woman and never would be. And he would never be satisfied with another woman now that he’d touched her.Sebastian

Yes, magnifliant. Magnificent, brilliant, splendid, superb. I could go on.

I don’t fear you. It’s my feelings for you that I fear.

You don’t have to prove something to feel it, to know it exists.