--- title: "10 Black eyes Quotes By Diana Palmer" description: "10 Black eyes quotes by Diana Palmer. Plus more from Diana Palmer and more Black eyes sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/267/diana-palmer-4730_black-eyes_that-night-while-you-were-asleep-i-unbut_2771254.png" --- > [“That night, while you were asleep, I unbuttoned your pajama jacket and looked at what he’d done to you. Afterward, I drove…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diana-palmer/that-night-while-you-were-asleep-i-unbuttoned-your-pajama-jacket-and/) [Diana Palmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diana-palmer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/267/diana-palmer-4730_black-eyes_that-night-while-you-were-asleep-i-unbut_2771254.png) > [“I’m happy here, Tate. I’ll let you know when the baby comes,” she added quietly. “Certainly, you’ll have access to him any…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diana-palmer/i-m-happy-here-tate-i-ll-let-you-know-when-the-baby-comes-she-added/) [Diana Palmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diana-palmer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/02f/diana-palmer-4730_black-eyes_i-m-happy-here-tate-i-ll-let-you-know-wh_2100313.png) > [“You were just in South Dakota a couple of weeks ago,” he pointed out. “Why didn’t you get it then?” “It wasn’t…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diana-palmer/you-were-just-in-south-dakota-a-couple-of-weeks-ago-he-pointed-out/) [Diana Palmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diana-palmer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/038/diana-palmer-4730_ask-questions_you-were-just-in-south-dakota-a-couple-o_408904.png) > [“Or I can stay with Colby when he comes back,” she added deliberately. She even smiled. “He’ll take care of me.” His…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diana-palmer/or-i-can-stay-with-colby-when-he-comes-back-she-added-deliberately/) [Diana Palmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diana-palmer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3d0/diana-palmer-4730_black-eyes_or-i-can-stay-with-colby-when-he-comes-b_2726431.jpg) > [“Don’t make that mistake again,” he said in a voice so quiet it was barely audible. He looked as if all his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diana-palmer/don-t-make-that-mistake-again-he-said-in-a-voice-so-quiet-it-was/) [Diana Palmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diana-palmer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/24c/diana-palmer-4730_black-eyes_don-t-make-that-mistake-again-he-said-in_898331.jpg) > [“The hell of it is that my son, my only child, has to turn out to be,” he added with a return…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diana-palmer/the-hell-of-it-is-that-my-son-my-only-child-has-to-turn-out-to-be-he/) [Diana Palmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diana-palmer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/646/diana-palmer-4730_black-eyes_the-hell-of-it-is-that-my-son-my-only-ch_1398398.jpg) > [“Pierce Hutton gave him a highly amused smile as they went over updated security information from the oil rig in the Caspian…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diana-palmer/pierce-hutton-gave-him-a-highly-amused-smile-as-they-went-over/) [Diana Palmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diana-palmer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9cd/diana-palmer-4730_black-eyes_pierce-hutton-gave-him-a-highly-amused-s_1520609.jpg) > [“She wasn’t sure when she realized that she wasn’t alone. She’d heard a louder murmur from the crowd outside, but she hadn’t…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diana-palmer/she-wasn-t-sure-when-she-realized-that-she-wasn-t-alone-she-d-heard-a/) [Diana Palmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diana-palmer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/573/diana-palmer-4730_black-eyes_she-wasn-t-sure-when-she-realized-that-s_1093231.jpg) > [“Tate was sprawled across the bed in his robe early the next morning when the sound of the front door opening penetrated…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diana-palmer/tate-was-sprawled-across-the-bed-in-his-robe-early-the-next-morning/) [Diana Palmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diana-palmer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/469/diana-palmer-4730_black-eyes_tate-was-sprawled-across-the-bed-in-his_2582214.jpg) > [“It was raining and I had to walk on the grass. I’ve got mud all over my shoes. They’re brand-new, too.” “I’ll…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diana-palmer/it-was-raining-and-i-had-to-walk-on-the-grass-i-ve-got-mud-all-over/) [Diana Palmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diana-palmer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/22c/diana-palmer-4730_black-eyes_it-was-raining-and-i-had-to-walk-on-the_2948982.jpg) ## Other authors on Black eyes ## More by Diana Palmer > [“Go ahead. Ask me who the father is.” He only smiled. “Do I look that stupid to you?” She pushed back her short hair…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diana-palmer/go-ahead-ask-me-who-the-father-is-he-only-smiled-do-i-look-that/) [Diana Palmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diana-palmer/) > [“So the bloodline wasn’t pure.” He shook his head. “It was an excuse, like all the other excuses. I liked my life as it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diana-palmer/so-the-bloodline-wasn-t-pure-he-shook-his-head-it-was-an-excuse-like/) [Diana Palmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diana-palmer/) > [“Revolutionaries can't afford to worry about tomorrow.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diana-palmer/revolutionaries-can-t-afford-to-worry-about-tomorrow/) [Diana Palmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diana-palmer/) > [“You need a battle plan,” Matt advised. “I never left the base without detailed reconnaissance and a battle plan. It’s why I came home…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diana-palmer/you-need-a-battle-plan-matt-advised-i-never-left-the-base-without/) [Diana Palmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diana-palmer/) > [No revolution succeeds without sacrifice.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diana-palmer/no-revolution-succeeds-without-sacrifice/) [Diana Palmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diana-palmer/) > [“Yes?” he said impatiently. There was a pause. “You wouldn’t believe how many people I had to bribe to get this new number of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diana-palmer/yes-he-said-impatiently-there-was-a-pause-you-wouldn-t-believe-how/) [Diana Palmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diana-palmer/) > [“Leta walked to the door and opened it with a ready smile for Colby Lane. And found herself looking straight into the eye of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diana-palmer/leta-walked-to-the-door-and-opened-it-with-a-ready-smile-for-colby/) [Diana Palmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diana-palmer/) > [“Pity Matt didn’t help him through a window instead of over a sofa,” she grumbled. “He needs an attitude adjustment.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diana-palmer/pity-matt-didn-t-help-him-through-a-window-instead-of-over-a-sofa-she/) [Diana Palmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diana-palmer/) > [“Leta will manage. She’s tough. But Tate is going to learn some things that will hurt him badly. I think he should hear it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diana-palmer/leta-will-manage-she-s-tough-but-tate-is-going-to-learn-some-things/) [Diana Palmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diana-palmer/) > [“Is the world really a better place now that nothing is considered bad? People just do what they want, with anyone. How is that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diana-palmer/is-the-world-really-a-better-place-now-that-nothing-is-considered-bad/) [Diana Palmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diana-palmer/) > [“You were just in South Dakota a couple of weeks ago,” he pointed out. “Why didn’t you get it then?” “It wasn’t available then.”…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diana-palmer/you-were-just-in-south-dakota-a-couple-of-weeks-ago-he-pointed-out/) [Diana Palmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diana-palmer/) > [“I know I said this before, but it bears repeating. You know Tate won’t like you staying with me.” “I don’t care,” she said…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diana-palmer/i-know-i-said-this-before-but-it-bears-repeating-you-know-tate-won-t/) [Diana Palmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diana-palmer/) > [“Oh, it’s a little worse than that,” he said, nettled. “It makes you the illegitimate son of the senior Republican senator from South Dakota.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diana-palmer/oh-it-s-a-little-worse-than-that-he-said-nettled-it-makes-you-the/) [Diana Palmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diana-palmer/) > [“A little drop of Native American blood was exciting and unique. But a full-blooded Native American…she was horrified.” Cecily’s opinion of the legendary Maureen…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diana-palmer/a-little-drop-of-native-american-blood-was-exciting-and-unique-but-a/) [Diana Palmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diana-palmer/) > [“She pulled the shawl closer as a tall, lithe figure cut across the parking lot and joined her at the passenger door. “You’re already…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diana-palmer/she-pulled-the-shawl-closer-as-a-tall-lithe-figure-cut-across-the/) [Diana Palmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diana-palmer/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/black-eyes/diana-palmer/#itemlist", "name": "10 Black eyes Quotes By Diana Palmer", "numberOfItems": 10, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“That night, while you were asleep, I unbuttoned your pajama jacket and looked at what he’d done to you. Afterward, I drove back to his house and very nearly killed him. If he hadn’t started crying and begging me to stop, I…” He let out the angry breath. “That was when I realized how I felt about you,” he added, his eyes meeting hers. “A man wants to protect what he considers his own. It started then, that night.” She was surprised by what he was telling her. “You…looked at me?” He nodded. His eyes narrowed. “You had the most beautiful little breasts,” he said roughly. “And they were covered with bruises. I wanted to kiss the bruises, take you into my bed and hold you, just hold you, all night long so that you’d be safe. I didn’t dare give in to the impulse, of course,” he added with the first touch of amusement he’d shown since her arrival. “My mother would have horsewhipped me.” She felt waves of surprised pleasure lance through her body. “I never knew.” “I was always known for my poker face,” he murmured. “But it was sheer agony to be around you. The older you got, the worse it was. It was inevitable that one day I’d go mad and take you.” He sighed. “The most hellish part of the whole thing was knowing that all I had to do was touch you and you’d let me do anything I liked to you.” She traced the mouth of her coffee cup. “I loved you,” she said quietly. “I know.” There was a world of pain in the words. 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I’ll let you know when the baby comes,” she added quietly. “Certainly, you’ll have access to him any time you like.” Doors were closing. Walls were going up around her. He clenched his teeth together in impotent fury. “I want you,” he said forcefully, which was not at all what he wanted to say. “I don’t want you,” she replied, lying through her teeth. She wasn’t about to become an obligation again. She even smiled. “Thanks for coming to see about me. I’ll phone Leta when she and Matt come home from Nassau.” “They’re already home,” he said flatly. “I’ve been to make peace with them.” “Have you?” She smiled gently. “I’m glad. I’m so glad. It broke Leta’s heart that you wouldn’t speak to her.” “What do you think it’s going to do to her when she hears that you won’t marry the father of your child?” She gaped at him. “She…knows?” “They both know, Cecily,” he returned. “They were looking forward to making a fuss over you.” He turned toward the door, bristling with hurt pride and rejection. “You can call my mother and tell her yourself that you aren’t coming back. Then you can live here alone in the middle of ‘blizzard country,; and I wish you well.” He turned at the door with his black eyes flashing. “As for me, hell will freeze over before I come near you again!” He went out and slammed the door. Cecily stared after him with her heart in her throat. Why was he so angry that she’d relieved him of any obligations about the baby? He couldn’t want her for herself. If he had, if he’d had any real feeling for her, he’d have married her years ago. It was only the baby. She let the tears rush down her face again with pure misery as she heard the four-wheel drive roar out of the driveway and accelerate down the road. She hoped he didn’t run over anybody. Her hand went to her stomach and she remembered with anguish the look on his face when he’d put his big, strong hand over his child. She’d sent him away for the sake of his own happiness, didn’t he know that? She supposed it was just hurt pride that had caused his outburst. But she wished he hadn’t come. It would be so much harder to live here now that she could see him in this house, in these rooms, and be haunted by the memory of him all over again. He wouldn’t come back. She’d burned her bridges. 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He glared at her. “He won’t change,” he said flatly. “I don’t care,” she said. “I appreciate all you’ve done for me, Tate, but my private life is my own business, not yours.” “That’s a hell of a way to talk to me.” “That works both ways,” she replied, eyes narrowing. “What gives you the right to ask questions about the men I date?” Her words made him mad. His lips compressed until they made a straight line. He looked like his father when he was angry. He finished his coffee in a tense silence and got to his feet. He glanced at his watch. “I’ve got to go. I just wanted to see how you were.” “You just wanted to see if Colby was here,” she corrected and smiled mirthlessly when he blinked. “You know I don’t approve of Colby,” he told her. “Like I care?” she said. He took a step toward her. His black eyes glittered with conflicting emotions. She aroused him more lately than any woman he’d ever known. Just looking at her sent him over the edge. On some level she recognized the tension in him, the need that he was denying. He was upset about Matt Holden pulling him out of the security work, not because of the money, but rather because it seemed nothing more than spite. Actually Holden was saving them both from a political upheaval because he could have been accused of nepotism. But deeper than that was a frustration because he wanted a woman he couldn’t have. Cecily knew that at some level. He was trying to start a fight. She couldn’t let him. “Colby is a sweet man,” she said gently. “He’s good company and he doesn’t drink around me, ever.” “He’s an alcoholic,” he said quietly, trying to control the anger. “I told you before, he’s in therapy,” she said. “He’s trying, Tate.” “So you expect me not to worry about you? 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She even smiled. “He’ll take care of me.” His black eyes narrowed. “He can barely take care of himself,” he said flatly. “He’s a lost soul. He can’t escape the past or face the future without Maureen. He isn’t ready for a relationship with anyone else, even if he thinks he is” She didn’t rise to the bait. “I can count on Colby. He’ll help me if I need it.” He looked frustrated. “But you won’t let me help you.” “Colby isn’t involved with anyone who’d be jealous of the time he spent looking out for me. That’s the difference.” He let out an angry breath and his eyes began to glitter. “You have to beat the subject to death, I guess.” She managed to look indifferent. “You have your own life to live, Tate. I’m not part of it anymore. You’ve made that quite clear.” His teeth clenched. “Is it really that easy for you to throw the past away?” he asked. “That’s what you want,” she reminded him. There was a perverse pleasure in watching his eyes narrow. “You said you’d never forget or forgive me,” she added evenly. “I took you at your word. I’ll always have fond memories of you and Leta. But I’m a grown woman. I have a career, a future. I’ve dragged you down financially for years, without knowing it. Now that I do…” “For God’s sake!” he burst out, rising to pace with his hands clenched in his pockets. “I could have sent you to Harvard if you’d wanted to go there, and never felt the cost! “You’re missing the point,” she said, feeling nausea rise in her throat and praying it wouldn’t overflow. “I could have worked my way through school, paid for my own apartment and expenses. I wouldn’t have minded. But you made me beholden to you in a way I can never repay.” He stopped pacing and glared at her. “Have I asked for repayment?” She smiled in spite of herself. “You look just like Matt when you glower that way.” The glare got worse. She held up a hand. “I know. You don’t want to talk about that. Sorry.” “Everyone else wants to talk about it,” he said irritably. “I’ve done nothing but dodge reporters ever since the story broke. What a hell of a way to do it, on national television!”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Diana Palmer" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diana-palmer/or-i-can-stay-with-colby-when-he-comes-back-she-added-deliberately/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3d0/diana-palmer-4730_black-eyes_or-i-can-stay-with-colby-when-he-comes-b_2726431.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3d0/diana-palmer-4730_black-eyes_or-i-can-stay-with-colby-when-he-comes-b_2726431.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3d0/diana-palmer-4730_black-eyes_or-i-can-stay-with-colby-when-he-comes-b_2726431.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Or I can stay with Colby when he comes back,” she added deliberately. She even smiled. “He’ll take care of…” — Diana Palmer", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 5, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Don’t make that mistake again,” he said in a voice so quiet it was barely audible. He looked as if all his latent hostilities were waiting for an excuse to turn on her. “If you throw that cup at me, so help me, I’ll carry you over and put you down in the punch bowl!” “You and the CIA, maybe!” Cecily hissed. “Go ahead and try…!” Tate actually took a step toward her just as Colby managed to get between them. “Now, now,” he cautioned. Cecily wasn’t backing down an inch. Neither was Tate. He’d gone from lazy affection and indulgent amusement to bristling antagonism in the space of weeks. Lately he flew into a rage if Cecily’s name was mentioned, but Colby hadn’t told her that. “You have no right to make that kind of insinuation about me,” she said through her teeth. “I don’t get jobs lying on my back, and you know it!” Tate’s black eyes narrowed. He looked formidable, but Cecily wasn’t intimidated by him. She never had been. He glanced at her hands, which were clenched on her cup, and then back to her rigid features. It had infuriated him to be the object of televised ridicule at the political dinner, and Audrey’s comments had only made things worse. He was carrying a grudge. But as he looked at Cecily, he felt an emptiness in his very soul. This woman had been a thorn in his side for years, ever since an impulsive act of compassion had made her his responsibility. In those days, she’d been demure and sweet and dependent on him, and her shy hero worship had been vaguely flattering. Now, she was a fiery, independent woman who didn’t give a damn about his disapproval or, apparently, his company, and she had done everything expect leave town to keep out of his way.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Diana Palmer" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diana-palmer/don-t-make-that-mistake-again-he-said-in-a-voice-so-quiet-it-was/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/24c/diana-palmer-4730_black-eyes_don-t-make-that-mistake-again-he-said-in_898331.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/24c/diana-palmer-4730_black-eyes_don-t-make-that-mistake-again-he-said-in_898331.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/24c/diana-palmer-4730_black-eyes_don-t-make-that-mistake-again-he-said-in_898331.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Don’t make that mistake again,” he said in a voice so quiet it was barely audible. He looked as if all his…” — Diana Palmer", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 6, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“The hell of it is that my son, my only child, has to turn out to be,” he added with a return of his old spirit, black eyes flashing, “the one man in Washington, D.C. who hates my guts!” “You weren’t too fond of him, either, if you recall,” she pointed out. He glared at her. “He’s hot-tempered and arrogant and stubborn!” “Look who he gets it from,” she said with a grin. He unlinked his hands as he considered that. “Those can be desirable traits,” he agreed with a faint smile. “Anyway, it’s nice to know I won’t die childless,” he said after a minute. He lifted his eyes to her face. “Leta can’t know any of this. When and if the time comes, I’ll tell her.” “Who’s going to tell him?” she ventured. “You?” he suggested. “In your dreams,” she said with a sweet smile. He stuffed his hands back into his pockets. “We’ll cross that bridge when the river comes over it. You’ll be careful, do you hear me? I’ve invested a lot of time and energy into hijacking you for my museum. Don’t take the slightest risk. If you think you’ve been discovered, get out and take Leta with you.” “She’s afraid to fly,” she pointed out. “She won’t get in an airplane unless it’s an emergency.” “Then I’ll come out and stuff her into a car and drive her to the airport and put her on a plane,” he said firmly. She pursed her lips. 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I was beginning to get used to that permanent scowl.” Tate glanced at him wryly. “I thought I was doing a great job of keeping her at arm’s length. She’s pregnant, now, of course,” he volunteered. The older man chuckled helplessly. “So much for keeping her at arm’s length. When’s the wedding?” Tate’s smile faded. “That’s premature. She ran. I finally tracked her down, but now I have to convince her that I want to get married without having her think it’s only because of the baby.” “I don’t envy you the job,” Pierce replied, his black eyes twinkling. “I had my own rocky road to marriage, if you recall.” “How’s the baby these days?” he asked. Pierce laughed with wholehearted delight. “We watch him instead of television. I never expected fatherhood to make such changes in me, in my life.” He shook his head, with a faraway look claiming his eyes. “Sometimes I’m afraid it’s all a dream and I’ll wake up alone.” He shifted, embarrassed. “You can have the time off. But who’s going to handle your job while you’re gone?” “I thought I’d get you to put Colby Lane on the payroll.” He held up his hand when Pierce looked thunderous. “He’s stopped drinking,” he hold him. “Cecily got him into therapy. He’s not the man he was.” “You’re sure of that?” Pierce wanted to know. Tate smiled. “I’m sure. “Okay. But if he ever throws a punch at me again, he’ll be smiling on the inside of his mouth!” Tate chuckled. “Fair enough. I’ll give him a call before I leave town.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Diana Palmer" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diana-palmer/pierce-hutton-gave-him-a-highly-amused-smile-as-they-went-over/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9cd/diana-palmer-4730_black-eyes_pierce-hutton-gave-him-a-highly-amused-s_1520609.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9cd/diana-palmer-4730_black-eyes_pierce-hutton-gave-him-a-highly-amused-s_1520609.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9cd/diana-palmer-4730_black-eyes_pierce-hutton-gave-him-a-highly-amused-s_1520609.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Pierce Hutton gave him a highly amused smile as they went over updated security information from the oil rig…” — Diana Palmer", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 8, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“She wasn’t sure when she realized that she wasn’t alone. She’d heard a louder murmur from the crowd outside, but she hadn’t connected it with the door opening. She looked over her shoulder and saw Tate standing against the back wall. He was wearing one of those Armani suits that looked so splendid on his lithe build, and he had his trenchcoat over one arm. He was leaning back, glaring at the ceremony. Something was different about him, but Cecily couldn’t think what. It wasn’t the vivid bruise high up on his cheek where Matt had hit him. But it was something…Then it dawned on her. His hair was cut short, like her own. He glared at her. Cecily wasn’t going to cower in her seat and let him think she was afraid to face him. Mindful of the solemnity of the occasion, she got up and joined Tate by the door. “So you actually came. Bruises and all,” she whispered with a faintly mocking smile, eyeing the very prominent green-and-yellow patch on his jaw that Matt Holden had put there. He looked down at her from turbulent black eyes. He didn’t reply for a minute while he studied her, taking in the differences in her appearance, too. His eyes narrowed on her short hair. She thought his eyelids flinched, but it might have been the light. His eyes went back to the ceremony. He didn’t say another word. He didn’t really need to. He’d cut his hair. In his culture-the one that part of him still belonged to-cutting the hair was a sign of grief. She could feel the way it was hurting him to know that the people he loved most in the world had lied to him. She wanted to tell him that the pain would ease day by day, that it was better to know the truth than go through life living a lie. She wanted to tell him that having a foot in two cultures wasn’t the end of the world. But he stood there like a painted stone statue, his jaw so tense that the muscles in it were noticeable. He refused to acknowledge her presence at all. “Congratulations on your engagement, by the way,” she said without a trace of bitterness in her tone. “I’m very happy for you.” His eyes met hers evenly. “That isn’t what you told the press,” he said in a cold undertone. “I’m amazed that you’d go to such lengths to get back at me.” “What lengths?” she asked. “Planting that story in the tabloids,” he returned. “I could hate you for that.” The teenage sex slave story, she guessed. She glared back at him. “And I could hate you, for believing I would do something so underhanded,” she returned. He scowled down at her. The anger he felt was almost tangible. She’d sold him out in every way possible and now she’d embarrassed him publicly, again, first by confessing to the media that she’d been his teenage lover-a load of bull if ever there was one. Then she’d compounded it by adding that he was marrying Audrey at Christmas. He wondered how she could be so vindictive. Audrey was sticking to him like glue and she’d told everyone about the wedding. Not that many people hadn’t read it already in the papers. He felt sick all over. He wouldn’t have Audrey at any price. Not that he was about to confess that to Cecily now, after she’d sold him out. He started to speak, but he thought better of it, and turned his angry eyes back toward the couple at the altar. After a minute, Cecily turned and went back to her seat. She didn’t look at him again.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Diana Palmer" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diana-palmer/she-wasn-t-sure-when-she-realized-that-she-wasn-t-alone-she-d-heard-a/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/573/diana-palmer-4730_black-eyes_she-wasn-t-sure-when-she-realized-that-s_1093231.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/573/diana-palmer-4730_black-eyes_she-wasn-t-sure-when-she-realized-that-s_1093231.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/573/diana-palmer-4730_black-eyes_she-wasn-t-sure-when-she-realized-that-s_1093231.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“She wasn’t sure when she realized that she wasn’t alone. She’d heard a louder murmur from the crowd outside…” — Diana Palmer", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 9, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Tate was sprawled across the bed in his robe early the next morning when the sound of the front door opening penetrated his mind. There was an unholy commotion out there and his head was still throbbing, despite a bath, several cups of coffee and a handful of aspirin that had been forced on him the day before by two men he’d thought were his friends. He didn’t want to sober up. He only wanted to forget that Cecily didn’t want him anymore. He dragged himself off the bed and went into the living room, just in time to hear the door close. Cecily and her suitcase were standing with mutual rigidity just inside the front door. She was wearing a dress and boots and a coat and hat, red-faced and muttering words Tate had never heard her use before. He scowled. “How did you get here?” he asked. “Your boss brought me!” she raged. “He and that turncoat Colby Lane and two bodyguards, one of whom was the female counterpart of Ivan the Terrible! They forcibly dressed me and packed me and flew me up here on Mr. Hutton’s Learjet! When I refused to get out of the car, the male bodyguard swept me up and carried me here! I am going to kill people as soon as I get my breath and my wits back, and I am starting with you!” He leaned against the wall, still bleary-eyed and only half awake. She was beautiful with her body gently swollen and her lips pouting and her green eye sin their big-lensed frames glittering at him. She registered after a minute that he wasn’t himself. “What’s the matter with you?” she asked abruptly. He didn’t answer. He put a hand to his head. “You’re drunk!” she exclaimed in shock. “I have been,” he replied in a subdued tone. “For about a week, I think. Pierce and Colby got my landlord to let them in yesterday.” She smiled dimly. “I’d made some threats about what I’d do if he ever let anybody else into my apartment, after he let Audrey in the last time. I guess he believed them, because Colby had to flash his company ID to get in.” He chuckled weakly. “Nothing intimidates the masses like a CIA badge, even if it isn’t current.” “You’ve been drunk?” She moved a little closer into the apartment. “But, Tate, you don’t…you don’t drink,” she said. “I do now. The mother of my child won’t marry me,” he said simply. “I said you could have access…” His black eyes slid over her body like caressing hands. He’d missed her unbearably. Just the sight of her was calming now. “So you did.” Why did the feel guilty, for God’s sake, she wondered. She tried to recapture her former outrage. “I’ve been kidnapped!” “Apparently. Don’t look at me. Until today, I was too stoned to lift my head.” He looked around. “I guess they threw out the beer cans and the pizza boxes,” he murmured. “Pity. I think there was a slice of pizza left.” He sighed. “I’m hungry. I haven’t eaten since yesterday.” “Yesterday!”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Diana Palmer" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diana-palmer/tate-was-sprawled-across-the-bed-in-his-robe-early-the-next-morning/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/469/diana-palmer-4730_black-eyes_tate-was-sprawled-across-the-bed-in-his_2582214.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/469/diana-palmer-4730_black-eyes_tate-was-sprawled-across-the-bed-in-his_2582214.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/469/diana-palmer-4730_black-eyes_tate-was-sprawled-across-the-bed-in-his_2582214.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Tate was sprawled across the bed in his robe early the next morning when the sound of the front door opening…” — Diana Palmer", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 10, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“It was raining and I had to walk on the grass. I’ve got mud all over my shoes. They’re brand-new, too.” “I’ll carry you across the grass on the return trip, if you like,” Colby offered with twinkling eyes. “It would have to be over one shoulder, of course,” he added with a wry glance at his artificial arm. She frowned at the bitterness in his tone. He was a little fuzzy because she needed glasses to see at distances. “Listen, nobody in her right mind would ever take you for a cripple,” she said gently and with a warm smile. She laid a hand on his sleeve. “Anyway,” she added with a wicked grin, “I’ve already given the news media enough to gossip about just recently. I don’t need any more complications in my life. I’ve only just gotten rid of one big one.” Colby studied her with an amused smile. She was the only woman he’d ever known that he genuinely liked. He was about to speak when he happened to glance over her shoulder at a man approaching them. “About that big complication, Cecily?” “What about it?” she asked. “I’d say it’s just reappeared with a vengeance. No, don’t turn around,” he said, suddenly jerking her close to him with the artificial arm that looked so real, a souvenir of one of his foreign assignments. “Just keep looking at me and pretend to be fascinated with my nose, and we’ll give him something to think about.” She laughed in spite of the racing pulse that always accompanied Tate’s appearances in her life. She studied Colby’s lean, scarred face. He wasn’t anybody’s idea of a pinup, but he had style and guts and if it hadn’t been for Tate, she would have found him very attractive. “Your nose has been broken twice, I see,” she told Colby. “Three times, but who’s counting?” He lifted his eyes and his eyebrows at someone behind her. “Well, hi, Tate! I didn’t expect to see you here tonight.” “Obviously,” came a deep, gruff voice that cut like a knife. Colby loosened his grip on Cecily and moved back a little. “I thought you weren’t coming,” he said. Tate moved into Cecily’s line of view, half a head taller than Colby Lane. He was wearing evening clothes, like the other men present, but he had an elegance that made him stand apart. She never tired of gazing into his large black eyes which were deep-set in a dark, handsome face with a straight nose, and a wide, narrow, sexy mouth and faintly cleft chin. He was the most beautiful man. He looked as if all he needed was a breastplate and feathers in his hair to bring back the heyday of the Lakota warrior in the nineteenth century. Cecily remembered him that way from the ceremonial gatherings at Wapiti Ridge, and the image stuck stubbornly in her mind. “Audrey likes to rub elbows with the rich and famous,” Tate returned. His dark eyes met Cecily’s fierce green ones. “I see you’re still in Holden’s good graces. Has he bought you a ring yet?” “What’s the matter with you, Tate?” Cecily asked with a cold smile. “Feeling…crabby?” His eyes smoldered as he glared at her. “What did you give Holden to get that job at the museum?” he asked with pure malice. Anger at the vicious insinuation caused her to draw back her hand holding the half-full coffee cup, and Colby caught her wrist smoothly before she could sling the contents at the man towering over her. Tate ignored Colby. “Don’t make that mistake again,” he said in a voice so quiet it was barely audible. He looked as if all his latent hostilities were waiting for an excuse to turn on her. “If you throw that cup at me, so help me, I’ll carry you over and put you down in the punch bowl!” “You and the CIA, maybe!” Cecily hissed. “Go ahead and try…!” Tate actually took a step toward her just as Colby managed to get between them. “Now, now,” he cautioned. 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