The Earl on the Train: A Victorian Rebels Novella

had plenty of orgasms. This was your first. You have some catching up to do. I promise you’ll enjoy yourself.”

Woman, during this impossible and purely hypothetical event, the fault would entirely be mine. I would have failed us both and would immediately request another attempt.”

“I know you were not educated with nobility, so I don’t mind reminding you that it is commensurate to address me as ‘my lady.’”

Veronica Weatherstoke didn’t want him to fall to his death from a speeding train.

And that felt like progress.

Well, you kidnap a person once or twice and you tend to get attached,”

“My God, but you’re cold.”

“Trust me, woman, if you knew Arthur Weller’s sins, you’d be sending him to Hell yourself.”

“No, I mean, you’re as frozen as a corpse.”