"I've met very few women who wouldn't say the same." He figured the ones who did were lying. No same woman would turn down a beautiful diamond or ruby. That he had seen proven true for two hundred years.

He smiled and nodded, saluting her with his champagne glass. "A very astute observation. History is rife with, shall we say, inaccuracies? About the women of history. So many of mankind's great men had strong women beside them."

And what a shame they didn't appreciate it. Jerrard had always found the dangerous women to be the most fascinating.