“
Luke realized he was staring at Denton, and hoped he only seemed like a man dubious of the intellect of the fairer sex.
And not what he was. A man who knew that women were easily as smart as men, and quite often far smarter.
But that Grace Chetwood was vapid, distractible, spoiled, self-indulgent, and infuriating.
”
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Luke marveled that two years had passed, and yet the woman elicited precisely the same uncomfortable mix of reactions in him. He wanted a stiff drink. He wanted to step closer to her. He wanted to call her out for calculated provocation. He wanted to study her closely enough that he discovered the precise root of his powerful, unrelenting fascination with her. And then he wanted to use that information to excise said fascination once and for all. Surgically, if necessary.
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― Ash and the Butterfly
― Ash and the Butterfly
