Actually, these days, it seemed like everything except getting half-naked with Adrian was the last thing on my mind.
But really, I just had to face the truth: My boyfriend was insanely sexy, vampire or not, and I couldn’t keep my hands off him.
It didn’t seem possible that outside the sanctity of this moonlit car was a world we had to hide from, a world that wanted to tear us apart.
I had never thought I could love another person this much. I also never thought I’d live in such fear of losing another person.
Don’t look like that. Everything’s going to be okay. The center will hold.” “How do you know?” “Because we are the center.
So amazingly, agonizingly sexy that it’s a wonder I can get anything done when all I ever think about is the taste of your lips and the touch of your fingertips on my skin and the way your legs feel when I –.
I was going to ruin everything, right here and right now. I’m really not good with impulse control.
Being next to him like this made me feel as though everything really would be okay. Not because he’d fix things for me, but because I was reminded of the good in my life and why I had to fight for it. I won’t admit defeat again.
We should’ve brought him a silver stake,” Dimitri said. “I’m surprised Eddie hasn’t taught him already.
In Alchemist eyes, using magic was bad. In my eyes, leaving innocents in danger was worse.
Here goes nothing might have been an accurate statement, because nothing actually happened.
I lifted her easily in my arms and carried her over to the bed, amazed at how the strongest women I knew could feel so light in my arms.
With Dimitri grinning, Rose complied, holding out her left hand for the rest of the table to see. It was a remarkable piece of work. A large, perfectly cut round diamond was set into a lacy square of platinum filigree that was edged in tiny blue opals. It was a statement ring if ever there was one, and a wholly unexpected choice.
There was no one in the world but Sydney and me just then, and the only things that mattered were our love and the way I felt in her arms.
And I would never, ever have that euphoric, all-consuming love that had wrapped around me every moment I was with Sydney, that feeling of love that constantly made me think, Yes, this is what it means to be alive.
Was that Guardian Belikov?” she asked, switching subjects abruptly. “Yeah.” I swore I thought she might faint then and there. “Really? He’s even cuter than I heard.
Are you saying I have a short attention span?” “Not at all. I’m saying there’s a fire in you that drives everything you do, that makes you need to better the world and those you love. To stand up for those you can’t. It’s one of the wonderful things about you.
It wasn’t possible that one person could make you experience so many emotions at once, that one person could trigger a universe of feelings, simply with the sound of your name.
Dark times were ahead of us, but with his kiss still burning on my lips, I felt like I could do anything.
Yes. I love you.” “I love you too.