Authors: Joey W. Hill

Naughty Wishes 4: Soul (28 page)

When he said nothing, she settled deeper into the seat, closed her eyes, and crossed her arms over herself. “All right?”

“You’re no inconvenience. And I’ll see how you’re doing when we get to my place. My name is Dale. Dale Rousseau.”

“Rousseau.” She smiled, eyes still closed. The warmth of the car was making her drowsy. Her trembling had stopped. Things were slowing down again, the fog returning. “‘Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding, we are forced to obey it.’”

“Intriguing choice. ‘To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties—of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence.’”

“A Master who knows his Rousseau. Thank you, Dale.”

She wasn’t sure if she was thanking him for knowing Rousseau, for driving her home or for rescuing her from the two thugs, but it didn’t matter. A lady always offered her thanks for a kindness, and so far he’d been nothing but kind.

It just showed the depths of her capricious mood that she yearned for the part of him she’d seen earlier in the evening—when he’d been far less kind.

Author of the Knights of the Board Room and the Vampire Queen series, as well as
Naughty Bits
and the standalone novel,
Unrestrained
,
Joey W. Hill
’s work has received top picks and acclaim from numerous popular book review and reader sites. She has been awarded the RT Book Reviews Career Achievement Award in Erotica and is an RWA Holt Medallion winner.