He had a way with him. Before you had a chance to say no, he was there and done. That only happened to me once before, with a duke, who literally swept me off my feet, and before I knew what was happening, we'd done it. Another terrible mistake.
“I've always been more afraid of being left alone or left out than of things that go bump in the night.”
“Like, they know that I have a habit of rubbing my earlobes, I've been doing it since I was two.”