This year apparently marks the hundredth birthday of romantic fiction publisher Mills and Boon. We thought we should pay tribute with a should-be-an-excerpt from one of their novels…
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She fell, breathless, into his strong arms, feeling the soft touch of his velvet cloak. He held her to him, enveloping her in his firm grip. She looked up at his noble face, into his deep blue eyes, and pressed her damp frame closer to his muscular, hard body.
“I love you,’ she murmured, her heart fluttering like the wings of a caged bird.
“I love you, too, my sweet,” the handsome Prince replied softly. He clicked his fingers twice. Suddenly, the oak door flew open and three uniformed officers appeared in an instant. “That’s why I cannot let your behaviour this morning go unpunished.”
He released the quivering girl abruptly from his grasp: “Guards! Take her to the dungeon, strip her, and whip her soundly.”
The Prince turned back to her, smiling as he noticed the tears welling up in her pretty eyes. “And when they have finished with you, my sweet, they will bring you to my bedchamber.”
Now if that sort of stuff WAS in Mills and Boon, I might actually start reading it!
Me too! Abel can’t you produce a “Thrills and Swoon” series? I would definitely subscribe! Any chance of new stories soon?
H x
I’m with Harriet on the “Thrills and Swoon” series.
But I most popped over here to post: Awwww! Isn’t that romantic!
I’m really rather impressed that you’re capable of writing this badly when you put your mind to it! However, I must protest your omission of the obligatory reference to the Prince’s throbbing member.
Indiana – member of what?
(Smiles, coyly)
But he did have a ‘*hard* body’. Surely that counts?!
Hang on, didn’t Anne Rice already write this book?