“Nothing I have will tempt you?” King Herla murmured. Lin could only shake her head. “Then perhaps I should offer myself,” Herla said as he sank to his knees before her. “Wonderful girl, will you have me as your husband?” “Oh, yes,” Lin said.” LoveMythologyFolkloreBook Within A Book Book:Duke of Midnight Source: Duke of Midnight
“When you’ve tired of me,” she said softly, precisely, “Apollo will still be my brother. Will still be there for me.” “I’ll never tire of you,” he said, knowing with every thread of his soul that he spoke the absolute truth. “Then prove it.” He knew what she asked with such an open and vulnerable face. Something within him shriveled and died... he’d been on the rack too long for a penance he wasn’t sure he could ever entirely pay. “You know…” His voice was hoarse, the croaking of a dying man. He licked his lips. “You know why I cannot.” LoveChoicesAngst Book:Duke of Midnight Source: Duke of Midnight
“Artemis let her head fall back, her eyes closed, her lips suddenly trembling. Apollo dying. “Please. Please, Maximus. I’ll refrain from provoking you anymore. I’ll stay in the shadows with my stockings and shoes on and never swim in your pond again, never disturb you again, only please do this one thing, I beg you. Save my brother.” LoveSacrificeDesperationSiblings Book:Duke of Midnight Source: Duke of Midnight
“Finally he turned his head toward her face and brushed a kiss over her cheek. “I love you and I believe with all my heart that you love me as well. Why can’t you say it, Hero?” LoveRelationshipsTormented Book:Notorious Pleasures Source: Notorious Pleasures
“She very much feared that if she stayed with Maximus, this awful taint – this terribly wrong act – would, day by day, year by year, wear at her until she was no more than a ghost of her former self. She saw need when she looked into his eyes, but was there any love as well? Had she discarded Penelope’s friendship for a man who didn’t, in the end, truly care for her? For she loved him, she realized now, in this brightly lit garden, of all places, with his future wife, her cousin, by her side. She loved Maximus totally and completely, with all of her bitter, broken heart, and she did not know if it was enough for the two of them.” LoveDutyHonorAngstSecret Lovers Book:Duke of Midnight Source: Duke of Midnight
“Your cousin might be a pretty face, but you, my darling, courageous, maddening, seductive, mysterious, wonderful Diana, you are the Duchess of Wakefield. My duchess.” LoveMightFacesWonderfulMysteriousCourageousCousinDarlingSeductiveDianaPretty FaceDuchessYour Cousin Book:Duke of Midnight: Number 6 in series Source: Duke of Midnight: Number 6 in series
“Somehow she knew he would take a love affair very seriously indeed. Once that pinpoint focus was engaged, he would throw himself body and soul into the liaison. In the the woman he decided to take as a lover. A shiver ran through her at the thought. To be the object of such ferocious regard was an alluring prospect, but it also gave her pause.” LoveSoulBodyAgeFocusObjectsLoversDecidedRegardAffairRanEngagedPausesLove AffairShiverAlluringLiaison Author:Elizabeth Hoyt
