You know, Stone, just because a pretty girl prefers a firefighter to you doesn’t mean all the boys at that firehouse need to suffer for you bein’ jilted. Far’s I know, you got served this lesson at least once before. Learn, son. You may actually land a girl one day if you stop actin’ like an ass.
Duchess, you can argue about anything.
You fell with a kiss. I know, honey, because I was right there with you.
We met. He asked me out. I said no. He gave me his card should I rethink. The end,” I told him. Luke looked to Lee. Mace looked to Vance. Hector looked back down at the card. Brody looked at me. “Why’d you say no?” “Have I ever struck you as a woman who shares her personal life?” I asked. “I was over at your house watching Tarzan two weeks ago and you pulled out your family albums,” Brody reminded me. “All twelve of them.” Damn. “I was drunk,” I lied.
Any chance I tell you to stay up here you won’t give me lip?” “No chance at all,” I answered. He stared at me a second then shook his head like I was intruding on his greeting company at his house rather than me walking down the stairs in my own damned house to greet my company. Then he turned and proceeded walking to the stairs. I.
I spent every moment between being with him until being with him again thinking about being with him.
This is life,” I whispered as I steadily held his gaze. “Skylar, know that. It is life to get things wrong. It happens all the time to everyone. We make mistakes, all of us. There is no shame in that. None at all. The thing that’s important to understand is, if you make a mistake, you try and learn from it. But honey, you will make mistakes and that’s okay.
I make you mine, officially,” he continued, “no one ever has you again, Lottie, but me.
He’d told me time and again to live my life, enjoy it, figure out who I was and what I wanted, and only then go out and find it. And when I did, not to settle for anything less.
If I’m your Mitch, you’re my Mara,” he whispered against my skin, his words making me shiver again because I liked that idea, a whole lot. Then I felt his tongue glide along my throat as his hand glided back up my side, and I shivered yet again.
Totally could oust a government in a small South American country.” That made me laugh.
I was shifted outside of Eddie’s arm and then engulfed in a hug. I felt Tex’s flannel shirt against my cheek and then I felt his beard press against my forehead. “Fuckin’ A, Loopy Loo,” he said, absolutely no boom to his voice.
Friendly advice. Next time, get your head outta your ass and stake your claim.” My body.
That’s it,” Joyce stated. “She strolls in here and does any of that, it’s gonna be me goin’ to your momma’s house and dragging her out to take her to one of Pastor Keller’s revivals. He’ll dip her in the river and hold her down until she sees Jesus. And if she doesn’t, he’ll hold her down until she sees Jesus.
They may be hot and they may be nice but they’re also men. And men can be idiots. So it isn’t smooth sailing, honey, and it never will be.
Holy crap, this is Dynasty except British with a better wardrobe and set in the early 1900s,” I whispered to the TV.
I also knew that for three months, one of the things I seriously missed was making out with him.
The huddle included Slim, Tack, Delgado and a local private investigator, Hank Nightingale’s brother, Lee Nightingale and Lee’s second in command, Luke Stark.
Your heart’s beating so hard, it sounds like it’s about to tear out of your chest. I did that to you. And I’m not a monster?” “My heart is beating hard because I’m feeling a lot right now, and not all of it is fear, Abel,” I told him.
I’m the man who’s going to put your lush body on the back of his bike and take you to my flat. Then I’m going to take every piece of that lovely outfit off that lush body. Then I’m going to take you to my bed and I’m going to memorise, slowly, every inch of your skin. Then I’m going to watch you come while I’m inside you. That’s who I am.” Her.