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You were still you, Troy, and you were nothing but one big Papa Bear with me." She shook her head. "No. Scratch that. You had a caveman thing going on that doesn't seem to go away when you shift. We really need to talk about this habit of yours of flinging me over your shoulder and carrying me off to your cave."
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The two men's gazes lock and I am suddenly swimming in a pool of testosterone, in need of a life raft.
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What do I have to do to convince you I'm the one you should run , not away from? Tell me and I'll do it.
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This is going to feel like a public flogging.
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She was turning Royce into her knight in shining armor, and she knew all too well that was a fairy tale that didn't exist.
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Sara," he repeats, his tone low, as if he was trying it out on his tongue, trying me out on his tongue."
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You're a beautiful woman who deserves to be properly fucked, and I conclude from your actions and your answers to my questions that you haven't been. I want to be the man to remedy that. I want it very much.
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I'm not going away, Amy. You do know that, don't you?" ... "I don't need a protector, Liam." "I see things differently." My spine locks into a steel bar. "I'm not your ---" "Not yet. But I want you to be."
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I trust this woman more than I trust myself right now. And that scares me in a way I haven't been scared in a very long time.
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We think that if we surround ourselves with people, we can't be alone, when the reality is that we're always alone.
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submission would be, because I'd really earned it." "Oh, please. You have so many rules, your rules have rules. Any woman who dared to date you would need an encyclopedia-sized book to keep up."
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Oh, please. You have so many rules, your rules have rules. Any woman who dared to date you would need an encyclopedia-sized book to keep up.
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It's our scars that define us, Sara. Diego has to live life to appreciate life.
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all the ways I want her affected. I lean in and press my cheek to hers, brushing my lips over her delicate skin, inhaling that sweet scent of her even as I nuzzle her neck. "I want you in a bad way, woman. I brought you here. That's more control than you realize it is." I pull back to look at her. "Don't move your hands. Do what I say. It's all about pleasure. It's all about the moment." I don't force her to respond. I lean in and brush my ..
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Reality.
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the minute he'd said 'yes' to this assignment, Royce had said 'no' to Lauren.
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spreads his fingers on my cheek, his thumb stroking a seductive line along my jaw, his voice lower and deeper as he adds, "No secrets. No in between."
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No I have not," Nelson bites out, irritation in his voice. "She's devastated by all of this." "And so she ran off to Vermont and left you to be devastated alone," Elsa rebuttals. "Such love."
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My body hums in reply, and I fight the seductive lethargy threatening to consume both my anger, and my capacity for logic.
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In death we're all equal.
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His presence in my life is like the lighthouse in stormy waters to a ship lost at sea.
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The ability to become a person of our own making is the perfect lie. I concede that it might appear that some
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That must have been devastating." "At the time, yes," I admit, "but it helped me become me. We grow with every mountain we climbed. Even the ones that we fall down." "Even those we fall down," she says softly, almost to herself. She flicks me a look. "I think falling down is better than not climbing."
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