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And to have her hands roaming his bare skin?He’d never been a religious man, but he’d found a new goddess to worship. Because someday, they’d all be nothing but dust and shadows, but his dust would have mingled with divinity for a moment.For a kiss.

She surged against him, burrowing into his chest like a kitten seeking warmth, and he could do nothing but curl his body around her, creating a shelter.“You are safe. I have you.” He cupped her head to his chest with one hand, the other spanning her trembling spine. “Slow your breath.”

god this book really takes yearning to a whole new level this is excruciating (I love it)

“At that a true smile touched his lips, one he couldn’t suppress if he wanted to. “Miss Felicity, if my manhood could be threatened by learning something from a woman, then I wasn’t much of a man to begin with.”

“As pitiful as she was, she could only summon strength for so many strangers in a week’s time, and Gareth Severand took up a lot of space. Not only in the physical sense, but also more indistinguishable ways. It was as though she could feel where he stood beneath her roof, like a shadow in the walls.”

“Would you join me for dinner at half eight? I would like to discuss the particulars of my— our— upcoming schedule for the season. I’m certain you’ll find it exceedingly tedious, but—”
“Yes.” He’d listen to the Iliad read in its original language if only to share a meal with her.

“Felicity was a cool and quiet breeze in contrast to her sister’s bluster. The gentle rustle of leaves, the swish of long grass, and the flap of a hummingbird’s wings. She was the music that one must be still and quiet to hear. And he appreciated her all the more for it.”

BRB reading the entirety of Chapter 14 again

“She was tired of being invisible. Insignificant. Silent. If she didn’t say her piece now, she might never get another chance.”