--- title: "1 Breaking point Quotes By Stephanie Laurens" description: "1 Breaking point quotes by Stephanie Laurens. Plus more from Stephanie Laurens and more Breaking point sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/927/stephanie-laurens-4465_breaking-point_i-m-unaccustomed-to-being-cooped-up-all_532700.jpg" --- > [“I'm unaccustomed to being cooped up all day-I really must insist that you permit me to enjoy a short walk." "Not on your life," Fletcher growled. From the sound, Breckenridge realized the group had moved closer to the tap. 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From the sound, Breckenridge realized the group had moved closer to the tap. \"You don't need to think you're going to give us the slip so easily,\" Fletcher said again. \"My dear good man\"-Heather with her nose in the air; Breckenridge could tell by her tone-\"just where in this landscape of empty fields do you imagine I'm going to slip to?\" Cobbins opined that she might try to steal a horse and ride off. \"Oh,yes-in a round gown and evening slippers,\" Heather jeered. \"But I wasn't suggesting you let me ramble on my own-Martha can come with me.\" That was Martha's cue to enter the fray, but Heather stuck to her guns, refusing to back down through the ensuing, increasingly heated verbal stoush. Until Fletcher intervened, aggravated frustration resonating in his voice. \"Look you-we're under strict orders to keep you safe, not to let you wander off to fall prey to the first shiftless rake who rides past and takes a fancy to you.\" Silence reigned for half a minute, then Heather audibly sniffed. \"I'll have you know that shiftless rakes know better than to take a fancy to me.\" Not true, Breckenridge thought, but that wasn't the startling information contained in Fletcher's outburst. \"Come on, Heather-follow up.\" As if she'd heard his muttered exhortation, she blithely swept on. \"But if rather than standing there arguing, you instead treated me like a sensible adult and told me what your so strict orders with respect to me were, I might see my way to complying-or at least to helping you comply with them.\" Breckenridge blinked as he sorted through that pronouncement; he could almost feel for Fletcher when he hissed out a sigh. \"All right,\" Fletcher's frustration had reached breaking point. \"If you must know, we're to keep you safe from all harm. We're not to let a bloody pigeon pluck so much as a hair from your head. We're to deliver you up in prime condition, exactly as you were when he grabbed you.\" From the change in Fletcher's tone, Breckenridge could visualize him moving closer to tower over Heather to intimidate her into backing down; he could have told him it wouldn't work. \"So now you see,\" Fletcher went on, voice low and forceful, \"that it's entirely out of the question for you to go out for any ramble.\" \"Hmm.\" Heather's tone was tellingly mild. Fletcher was about to get floored by an uppercut. For once not being on the receiving end, Breckenridge grinned and waited for it to land. \" If , as you say, your orders are to-do correct me if I'm wrong-keep me in my customary excellent health until you hand me over to your employer, then, my dear Fletcher, that will absolutely necessitate me going for a walk. Being cooped up all day in a carriage has never agreed with me-if you don't wish me to weaken or develop some unhealthy affliction, I will require fresh air and gentle exercise to recoup.\" She paused, then went on, her tone one of utmost reasonableness, \"A short excursion along the river at the rear of the inn, and back, should restore my constitution.\" Breckenridge was certain he could hear Fletcher breathing in and out through clenched teeth. A fraught moment passed on, then, \"Oh, very well! Martha-go with her. Twenty minutes, do you hear? Not a minute more.\" \"Thank you, Fletcher. Come, Martha-we don't want to waste the light.\" Breckenridge heard Heather, with the rather slower Martha, leave the inn by the main door. He sipped his ale, waited. Eventually, Fletcher and Cobbins climbed the stairs, Cobbins grumbling, Fletcher ominously silent. The instant they passed out of hearing, Breckenridge stood, stretched, then walked out of the tap and into the foyer. 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