How do I look?" Amanda asked. ...

How do I look?\
How do I look?" Amanda asked. Jack shook his head ruefully as he glanced at her. No one could mistake the remaining flush on her cheeks, or the soft sparkle of her eyes, or her lusciously swollen mouth, for anything other than the results of physical passion. "Like you've been ravished," he said flatly. She astonished him by smiling. "Hurry, please. I want to go inside my house and consult a looking glass. I've always wanted to know what a ravished woman looks like.
 Lisa Kleypas

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Evie came his faint whisper I’m going to your mother see…she’s got ’em to leave a back door open…so I can steal into ’eaven.
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