You just slipped down two levels on the hot-o-meter,” I informed him snottily. “I’ll survive,” he shot back and turned away.
Because not havin’ anything good, anything to look forward to, anything to work toward sucks. It can beat you. There were a bunch of times when I almost let it beat me. And I gotta do what I gotta do to keep that streak and not let it beat me.” When I was done.
Beauty bound. She was not a ghost who could be seen. She was a hostage in a lavish cage.
I know what you’re trying to make me understand, darling. And I can’t tell the future. But I’m looking forward to it, as long as it seems, as far as it goes, as long as you’re in it.
Callum leaned toward Abel. “Feel it,” he said quietly. “Abel, you’re fortunate. I know. You have many brothers, as do I. But now, you have two more.
But it wasn’t that I wasn’t big on socializing. It was that I wasn’t very good at mingling. Small talk did nothing for me. Connecting in a vague way that was meaningless left me cold.
I didn’t know that was what I was looking for. I just knew I wasn’t going to settle for anything less, not anything less than perfect. I was going to find the man of my daydreams and nothing else would do. So I never got married because I never found him, no one ever brought that color into my life. Until Tack.
You got good, you don’t let it go. It lets you go, you hold on. It slips through your fingers, you pull out all the stops to get it back. You got somethin’ worth fighting for, you fight for it. You do not sit on your ass waitin’ for it to come back to you.
See, he may come back, sometimes they do, and I hope you don’t mind, but I fibbed a little, told the customer she was dating a police detective who never missed a workout. You don’t, do you? Ever miss a workout?
You doin’ okay this mornin’, Jussy?
Mental note when dealing with Mitch: he was a police detective and he had ways of getting information therefore never let your guard down.
Right there, his world was done. Because there was nothing that would be better than Carissa Teodoro standing a foot away with her hand warm on his, grinning up at him. Nothing.
I don’t think either man meant to do you wrong but in the end they did. And I’m the man who’s gonna do you right, Rosalie. With me, that rough ride is gonna end, baby.
We fight wars over dirt and oil and ego when we should fight wars against men who force women to live that kind of life with their children.
One thing I learned, this life is a wild ride and you got to just go with it.
I take it you just etched your name on the invitation list for our little coffee klatch,” Mitch noted, now looking at Sebring. Knight grinned. “I’ll bring the pastries.
Everyone knew the hero in any good romance had to have his fair share of experience. If he didn’t, how was he going to be a good teacher, showing his lady love how to give him pleasure at the same time giving her more than she’d ever dreamed?
Strong enough to know that it was better to have a little bit of something wonderful than a lifetime of just plain nothing.
This was it. This was us. This was what we’d be. Wild and free.
Love is a blanket that keeps you warm, not one that traps and suffocates you. You never learned that lesson, Rina. You never paid it any attention no matter how many times I explained. You kept pulling that blanket over my head.