“Better this way, what remained of his battered sensibilities told him. He was no good for her, anyway. She didn’t understand him. She didn’t understand that he was cursed. And, selfish as he was, he’d rather she hate him than he hate himself any more than he was already going to. Any more than he already did.” LoveRomanceHeartbreakHeartache Author:V.S. Carnes
“Caine might have smiled at her, had his heart not been breaking to smithereens inside of him.” LoveRomanceHeartbreakHeartache Author:V.S. Carnes
“By now, she was far from the scorch of these sands. After the ransom deal, she would be safely married in England. To Ashton. And Caine, who had hurt her far more than anything Abdullah had planned for her with that long, curved dagger, deserved no better than this torment of knowing it.” LoveRomanceHeartache Author:V.S. Carnes