text
stringlengths
21
130k
i assume you adopted mr.[SEP]darcy from a shelter ?
and anyway , who knows what dastardly deeds and reprobate behavior mr.[SEP]darcy engaged in before you met him ?
the last time he 'd kissed her had been on the night that they 'd first met ... .[SEP]pia turned away and picked up the remote to her mp3 player because music relaxed her .
gazillionaire bridal assistant , the duke of hawkshire ... pia gritted her teeth as she read mrs.[SEP]jane hollings 's gossip column in the new york intelligencer .
and you just noted that mrs.[SEP]hollings is gossiping about how he helped you last night .
well , melton , it seems mrs.[SEP]hollings has done it again .
so what does our mrs.[SEP]hollings have to say today ?
charming , our mrs.[SEP]hollings , sawyer said .
she hugged herself and glanced at mr.[SEP]darcy , who was eyeing her like a friend resigned to watching her make the same mistake twice .
over pia 's shoulder , hawk noticed mr.[SEP]darcy lift his head from his cushioned basket and eye him .
or rather , mr.[SEP]fielding-wicked and wrong-as the case might be .
he held the feline 's stare , giving the cat a stern but reassuring look , until mr.[SEP]darcy lowered his head , closed his eyes and went back to his nap .
in her gossip column , mrs.[SEP]hollings had twice referenced her and hawk-once right after belinda 's almost-wedding , and more recently , when she 'd hinted at a warming of their relationship after hawk had unexpectedly played her assistant .
and , what 's more , pia was n't sure if lucy even paid attention to mrs.[SEP]hollings 's column .
true , the column included a fair amount of society gossip , but lucy was immersed in the theater world rather than in the social whirl , and mrs.[SEP]hollings 's column focused on new york rather than britain .
maybe if she had , she would have recognized hawk as more than a plain mr.[SEP]james fielding on the first occasion she 'd met him .
i 'll have to get your business card , ms.[SEP]lumley- it 's pia , please .
pia had run from him , and he no doubt ranked even lower than the fictional wicked mr.[SEP]wickham in her estimation at the moment .
he 'd merited three thinly-veiled references in mrs.[SEP]hollings 's gossip column in the past months .
much as i hate to point out the obvious , sawyer said , mrs.[SEP]hollings was reporting a story of your own creation .
she was n't sure where and how mrs.[SEP]hollings was getting her information , but the columnist seemed to have sources in the most unlikely of places .
in fact , pia wondered fancifully for a moment if mrs.[SEP]hollings had been able to bribe information out of mr.
that you and ms.[SEP]lumley are- -liaising ?
you once fell for plain mr.[SEP]james fielding , and it was the greatest gift that anyone ever gave me .
she had n't seen sawyer near colin earlier at st.[SEP]bartholomew 's church .
after all , did n't a number of his newspapers publish the pseudonymously-authored pink pages of mrs.[SEP]jane hollings-bane of society hostesses and tart-tongued nemesis of social climbers everywhere ?
that did n't make mrs.[SEP]hollings 's column , too , did it ?
reportedly , pia had discovered at the reception that the duke was none other than the man she 'd known only as mr.[SEP]james fielding when she 'd been involved with him a few years before .
ever since the wedding fiasco at st.[SEP]bart 's nearly two weeks ago , they were imbrued by the scandal of the moment .
from the man himself , mr.[SEP]tom vance , lately of the rock band zero sum , and perhaps soon to be the recipient of some very good career news .
i 'm flying out to l.a.[SEP]to meet with a big music producer .
he jumped at the opportunity to go to l.a.[SEP]did n't he ?
lloyd , this is ms.[SEP]tamara kincaid , my fiancee .
though the wedding was to be small , all the immediate family would be in attendance , including her mother and stepfather , mr.[SEP]ward george , her sisters and , of course , her father .
on sawyer 's side , his mother , mrs.[SEP]peter beauregard , and her teenage daughter from her second marriage , jessica , would be present .
may i present ms.[SEP]tamara kincaid , my fiancee ?
langsford , this is alexis from dr.[SEP]ellis 's office , a woman 's voice said .
i 'm sorry for the confusion , but i inadvertently scheduled you for a day that dr.[SEP]ellis will not be in the office .
the call was either a mistake-had the woman meant to say gynecological appointment ?[SEP]or tamara was pregnant .
i walked in the door of the hotel at exactly 7:48 a.m.[SEP]so i rushed to put my things away and quickly checked myself in the mirror before casually strolling out to the desk .
it did n't really matter to me , i just wanted to make a good impression on mr.[SEP]blu if i saw him at the gala and hopefully that would help me get that promotion .
at nearly 31 , mr.[SEP]blu 's third wife was younger than his oldest son sebastian who was 32 .
rumors were always flying around that she had the hots for sebastian and she was just using the elder mr.[SEP]blu for his money .
the more i thought about ms.[SEP]parker 's comment about mr.
parker 's comment about mr.[SEP]blu liking pretty things , the more i realized that she probably wanted me there because of the way i looked .
you wo n't be serving tonight , i need you to manage mr.[SEP]blu 's section this evening .
i gathered all of the servers , who were very pretty women ( shocking ) , and had a quick meeting with them , stressing the importance of zero mistakes that evening and making sure mr.[SEP]blu was happy .
i do n't want mr.[SEP]blu to have to wait for anything longer than one full minute tonight .
most of the guests of mr.[SEP]blu 's party were already seated , beautiful women occupied nearly every seat at his table .
there were two empty seats and i gathered those were for mr.[SEP]blu and his date , who i was sure would be stunning .
the servers were all standing in a row near mr.[SEP]blu 's table and i went in the back to place fresh glasses of wine on trays for the servers and when i re-entered the ballroom to let them know that they should go get them , i saw the most gorgeous man i had ever seen walk over to the table .
i could see mr.[SEP]blu nod at someone every now and then when there was an item that he wanted .
i am so sorry mr.[SEP]blu , how clumsy of me !
it 's quite alright ... ms.[SEP]sumner is it ?
i got nervous because i thought ms.[SEP]parker may have been looking for me and could n't find me .
i do not mean to disrespect you mr.[SEP]blu , but i am very uncomfortable with your advances .
you are flirting with me mr.[SEP]blu , and while i am very flattered i just do n't think it 's appropriate .
i went into the kitchen to grab my purse and ms.[SEP]parker stopped me on my way out .
i think the gala was a huge success and mr.[SEP]blu seemed very pleased .
when she opened the door i was blown away by how beautiful mrs.[SEP]hargrove 's office was .
i knew i was staring at mrs.[SEP]hargrove but words and my brain decided they wanted to stop working together .
your supervisor was extremely pleased with how you handled mr.[SEP]blu 's section that night .
i looked at mrs.[SEP]hargrove and then looked around the room as the reality of the situation finally hit me .
my eyes settled back on mrs.[SEP]hargrove and i gave her my biggest smile .
this is all so overwhelming to me mrs.[SEP]hargrove so please excuse my hesitation , i am absolutely thrilled to have this wonderful opportunity .
i shook her hand and realized that mrs.[SEP]hargrove was short and to the point .
oh , do n't worry about that ms.[SEP]sumner , everything downstairs has already been taken care of .
is it true that mr.[SEP]blu hand-picked you to be vp of marketing ?
we were scheduled to arrive at 6:00 p.m.[SEP]and sebastian told me that we were meeting the others at 7:30 for a quick dinner .
besides , i knew that this day would come eventually and dr.[SEP]donnelly told me to do exactly what i did and just to live my life , so that 's what i 'm going to do .
one thing i will say is mr.[SEP]blu is not lacking in female attention .
chapter fifteen - blu men group wednesday morning i arrived at work at 7:00 a.m.[SEP]because my stomach had been in knots all night and i could n't sleep anticipating the big meeting with sebastian and his brothers .
elena , tell mr.[SEP]blu to call his mother immediately .
i froze as i realized mr.[SEP]gorgeous was in the same room as me , and i could barely breathe .
i felt relieved when my turn was over and i was just beginning to relax a bit when mr.[SEP]gorgeous caught me off guard .
so whatever you do do n't forget , it 's barbi with an i.[SEP]oh , and she let us all know that she is originally from beverly hills .
when i opened it , i felt a pit in my stomach as i read the message : ms.[SEP]miller , your individual appointment with your resident advisor is scheduled for thursday at 4:00 in the 1st floor meeting room of your dormitory .
well , i want to prove to mr.[SEP]cohen that i am a viable candidate for his internship program next year , i want to get straight a 's in all of my classes and i want to have a good year .
jonathan this is my mom , mrs.[SEP]marshall and my step-dad , jay.
it 's nice to meet you to , mrs.[SEP]marshall , mr .
i 'm sorry to be so abrupt mr.[SEP]marshall , it was really nice meeting you both and i look forward to getting to know you better at dinner .
anyway , they were chatting away , jay and mr.[SEP]hunter were talking about golf and jonathan could n't take his eyes off of me .
she was swooning over him like a teenager , it was so cute , and thankfully mrs.[SEP]hunter was not fazed at all .
i had to agree with my mom about mr.[SEP]hunter , though .
oh wait , he 's the r.a.[SEP]of course he has his own room , he already told me that .
it was n't even 7:00 a.m.[SEP]and i already could n't wait until 8:15 p.m.
we studied until almost 1:00 a.m.[SEP]and then we gathered our stuff and went back to our dorm .
it was almost 1:00 p.m.[SEP]and i had n't heard from or seen jonathan and i had a pit in the bottom of my stomach because this was exactly what i had predicted .
they both had a look of concern on their faces and they walked over to mrs.[SEP]hunter and began speaking in a low voice , but they were so close to where i was standing i could clearly hear their conversation .
her question was posed to no one in particular but mr.[SEP]hunter walked over to us to answer her .
my bags were already in my room and i started to unzip my suitcase when mrs.[SEP]hunter asked if she could talk to me for a few minutes .
thank you for telling me this mrs.[SEP]hunter because , to be honest , i was feeling very out of place and a bit insecure .
i turned to see mr.[SEP]hunter walking quickly toward zane and zane did not hesitate as he ran out of there , but not before yelling to abby .
i glanced around the table and my eyes fell on mr.[SEP]hunter who did not look pleased at all .
i could see the look of anger on mr.[SEP]hunter 's face but he probably kept it under control because i was there .
i looked around and i did n't see mr.[SEP]hunter yet and tried not to get nervous .
fifteen minutes before the start of the show there was still no sign of mr.[SEP]hunter and i really started to worry .
relief flooded over me and i walked over to mr.[SEP]hunter to let them know that i had saved seats for them .
the lights started to dim , the crowd started to whistle and clap and i glanced over at mr.[SEP]hunter to watch their reaction to all of this , and they seemed totally intrigued .
i was so happy that mr.[SEP]hunter asked me that question because it meant that he was starting to really digest what a big deal his son 's band was .