“Jessica: “You great drunken jackass!”
Dain: “I did not give you leave to use my Christian name.”
Loretta Chase book Lord of Scoundrels
Source: Lord of Scoundrels
“We've been wed more than a month. Since it appears you mean to stay, I might as well give you leave to call me by my christian name. It is preferable, at any rate, to 'clodpole.”
— Loretta Chase, book Lord of Scoundrels
Source: Lord of Scoundrels
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