K Ferguson

“Please let me go now," she said in a soft voice. "I can be of no further use to you."

"Suppose I want to keep you as my own?"

She pushed his hand away and sat up. "I am serious, Raven."

"Perhaps I am too.”
― Constance O'Banyon, Velvet Chains

“Wh-what rational woman would ever want a husband who looks like you?”
― Lisa Kleypas, Devil in Spring

“Madam, I've never met another woman who is as exasperating as you are!”
― Kathleen E. Woodiwiss, So Worthy My Love

“It was insane to let a creature so perfectly beautiful and artlessly spirited and vulnerable as his wife venture out into a world that could crush her with casual unconcern, and he had no choice but to allow it. But he had no illusions about ever being comfortable with it. For the rest of his life, he would feel a stab of dread every time she walked out the door, leaving him there with his heart wide open.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Devil in Spring