Devil in Disguise (The Ravenels Book 7)

I’ll be the extra rib that protects your heart. You can’t. You are my heart.

“You’ll always be Lachlan MacRae’s son. But you’re mine too.” A pause, and then he added hoarsely, “You can be mine too.” “Aye,” Keir whispered, while an unexpected sense of peace stole over him.

“Robert the Bruce?” Keir could feel his heart expanding in his chest. “Yes,” Seraphina said gleefully, leaping up and bouncing on her heels. Keir stood, laughing, and bent to kiss her cheek. “One drop of Robert the Bruce’s blood will do the job. I could no’ be happier. Thank you, sister.” He tried to hand the chart back to her, but she shook her he

“Was an analogy really necessary, Westcliff?” Kingston asked. “You could have simply said, ‘Please be kind to my headstrong daughter and don’t break her spirit.’” “Force of habit,” the earl said. “None of my sons pay attention unless it’s horses.”

An earsplitting report, a flash of light from the muzzle, and one of the rabbit sculptures on the wall shattered. In the silence that followed, Merritt heard her father say dryly, “Go on, Merritt. Put the other bunny out of its misery.” She cocked the hammer, aimed and fired again. The second rabbit sculpture exploded. “Sweet Mother Mary,” Ethan sa

“What are you going to tell her?” he heard Kingston ask. Keir answered in a growl, without looking back. “That I have too many fookin’ fathers!”

When they’d first met, the duchess had stared at him for a moment of wonder, and then had smiled and embraced him with tear-glittered eyes, as if he were her own long-lost child instead of Kingston’s.

In a way, it would be easier if the Challons and Marsdens put on airs around him, or pretended he was beneath their interest. That way, he could preserve his sense of separateness, and remain a stranger in a strange land. But no, they had to be warm and friendly and interesting.

“She’s a charming woman,” Keir replied, sitting beside her. “I like her very well. She dinna shock me, although . . . she swears like a Scottish golfer.”