Babe, trust me. With my work, ignorance is bliss. Yeah?” Oh boy. I was right. I didn’t want to know. Time to switch subjects.
You good?” he asked. Her answer was, “I have you.” He liked that answer but he had to be sure and he communicated this by saying, “Babe.” She got him and he knew this when she reiterated with emphasis, “Yes, Jake, of course I’m good. I have you.
So, you know when the limit’s up on love?” he asked and I felt my chest depress as the profound weight of his question hit me. “No,” I whispered. “Right. No. No one does. Not you. Not me. No one.
And if this was Tate then I definitely wanted to get laid by him. Definitely.
Yours as you are mine.
That woman in there with her mountain of Kleenex would be happy without peonies in August, Red. This is about him growin’ a pair, mannin’ up and tellin’ her he can’t hand her the world. She didn’t want the world. She wanted him. He didn’t have enough confidence in himself to believe that a woman like her would want a man like him and in the end, he took away the only thing she really ever wanted.
You got a problem with the way your life’s gone down, deal with it without draggin’ someone down with you.
We’ve hit the hot guy mother lode,” I whispered reverently when they were about five feet from our table. “Welcome to my nightmare,” Elvira muttered.
You’re here forever and you’re by my side.
Way you took care of my crew tonight, owe you another dinner at The Eaves.” I’d eat a picnic in Hades with him.
Love you so damned much, I let myself think about it, honest to Christ, it makes me dizzy.
Only games worth playin’ are games of the heart.
My heart swelled, my belly dipped and my head revolted. It was my head that knew how to react but his had happened with Henry too. When the pain of not having what I so very much wanted escalated before I settled into the knowledge that what I had was better than not having anything at all.
This, babe, what we got, I’ll fight for.
Marcie looked like her father but she acted like her mother. Sweet. Shy. Smart. Quiet. Loyal. Unconsciously funny. And clueless to just how beautiful she was and how much love she provoked.
Sorry, sweetness, but in the meantime, I gotta play her game. I want my move to be a surprise, I want her scrambling and, bottom line, I want my kids. I’m willin’ to do just about anything to see that happen and I’m gonna need to ask you to ride that out with me.
Good to know, even after a family drama, Gwen’s still hard at work on that great ass,” he noted.
If you loved someone, you found a way to show it so the person you loved knew it.
Be strong for the world, darling, if that’s what you need to be. But here, with me, you can be whatever you care to be.
He was the one. This motorcycle man in bed with me was the man of my dreams.