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misogynie in history ... It's refreshing that the hero is not misogynistic 💓

"I'd like to be there. For you."
"My father will despise that. He believes women are too emotional for funerals." 😏🙄

his father 🤮🤢😡 "Your wife is dying, and you would rather slip off to your mistress's bed...."

"A gift from Evander," she replied simply. "Truffles."...
"Nothing says affection like a fungus." 😚😁😋

"My knight in shining -"
"But no armor," he said. "I have a nickel allergy. I get a terrible rash, and it is rather unsightly."
She laughed. "No armor, then." 🤩

She haunted his thoughts, whether he wished it or not. And he loved her. Madly. Hopelessly.
But she did not feel the same.
And so he kept his silence, content to remain in her presence and hope...
🧡💝🧡

"It is far easier to forgo hope than to believe there is any bright future left for me." 💔

...why are you reading romance novels?"
Olivia gave a weary smile. "Because it is pleasant to escape into another world, even for a few moments...." 📚

He had long suspected his father's infidelities, whispered of in Society's drawing rooms, but had never broached the subject. 🤮

oh, H had a childhood crush on her...😁🤭Livy had never seemed to see him as more than a friend 🙃