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Then he says, "In a way, no one else has. No one."
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You're the one thing keeping me grounded.
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Mark's navigating dark and stormy waters, and I'm either going to pull him out, or drown with him. I don't know which.
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You do know I couldn't let you run, don't you?" "I wasn't--" "You were." "If you think that, then why'd you come after me?" "Because you didn't want to run. You just thought you had to." "That's a little arrogant." "It's honest. I like honesty."
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His presence in my life is like the lighthouse in my stormy waters to a ship lost at sea.
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Broken" from the band Life-house fills the room, because Chris doesn't know how personal it is to me. I'm falling apart. I'm barely breathing. I'm barely holding on to you. This song, this place with the words, and I am raw"
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The rush of fear is far better than the defeat of boredom. The high of not knowing what comes next is so much better than always knowing one day will be like the last. Never anticipation, never feeling anything. No. I cannot go back. So why am I so terrified of going forward?
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I hear cavemen lose their alpha if they go without food for too long.
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He stills, and our eyes lock, his narrowing, holding mine captive. "Run to me, not from me."
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So you think long and hard about what you see here today, and where you're headed. But if you run, run fast. Because I'm going to come after you. That's just the kind of bastard I can't seem to help being
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I think all men get a macho rise out of the idea of creating a baby on some level, but that doesn't mean they're happy when the big belly and dirty diapers come around.
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And some violinist--" "David Garrett." "David Garrett," I repeat, "who you swear will seduce me into loving his music."
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You don't drag someone you love into that kind of hell, and play the kinds of games he did with her mind and body. You climb out of hell to be with them.
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No more. There is no in between.
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I'm not sure what he's implying, but I'm pretty sure it's a slap to Chris, and I don't like it. "Show and tell, Mark. It's a good combination."
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It means he can trust you, and trust is not an easy thing to give or receive.
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Know what you can bend to your will, and don't waste energy on what you can't. It'll suck you dry, like it is right now.
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And I dare to believe that it really is. I dare to bet on us again.
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relationships
love
gamble
dare
second-chances
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Chocolate isn't food; it's a drug meant to cure all.
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He's right. He is. But thankfully he's a dickhead who doesn't seem to know my panties are in Chris's pocket.
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minds forever, and sometimes our very souls. They change us, mold us, maybe even save us. But some are darker, dangerous. If we allow them to, they control us. Seduce us. Quite possibly even destroy us. The moment I stepped into the mansion that is the centerpiece of the Reid Winter Vineyards and Winery wasn't one of those moments. Nor were any of the moments I spent weaving through
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Laughter is like crying.
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laughter
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But I have every intention of making you forget everything but what it feels like to have my tongue and my cock buried inside you.
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Faith's loyal servant," Nick assures him. "And everyone else's nightmare. The name is Nick Rogers." He doesn't extend his hand, nor does Bill extend his own. Bill's eyes narrow at the name. "I've heard you're a real bastard." "And here I thought I got rid of my nice guy reputation. I understand you're leaving. We'll walk you out."
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I think it's the whole 'bad boy who's so good but destined to break your heart' fantasy. Which doesn't sound like much of a fantasy when you put the broken heart part in the picture, but it is. It so is.
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Until then," he says, all velvet and seduction, "I'll be fantasizing about the moment when the only thing wrapped around me is you."
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Husband," she said and her lips curved, before she grinned. "Since we can't wear wedding rings and still shift, do I get my fur lined cuffs instead?" --
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Possession. Demand. Control. He wants it all." Denial by Lisa Renee Jones"
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Another great start to a new fantastic series
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The cliffhangers are killer but more then worth it. Surrender can't come out fast enough.
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It's all or nothing with Chris.
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This is one of my favorite books Lisa has ever written. You couldn't ask for a better story.
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Ella -Shifting, I roll to my side to find myself staring into a pair of pale blue eyes... "Your beautiful." Jayden - "I've been called a lot of things, sweetheart, but beautiful isn't one of them."
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Possession. Demand. Control. He wants it all. - denial
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want the lies to end. I pull my gun from my purse and point it at him. "Who are you to me, Kayden? Who am I?" from Denial"
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I don't know where he begins and where I end, but maybe that's the glory of who we've become. We begin and end together. We're a puzzle that fits perfectly together, where we fit nowhere else. And right now we're seeking peace in the only place we know to look--each other.
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I need to know I can be what he needs, that we can get through the darkness together. - demand
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I blink and Kayden is squatting in front of me, and I'm somehow on my knees, his hands under my hair, warm on the skin of my neck. His jacket is gone, his tie loose, his hair is a sexy rumpled mess, and he is beautiful. He is right in ways that other man is wrong, and a calmness fills me that wasn't there moments before. I reach up and grab his wrists. "I'm glad you're here, and I'm glad I'm here. Even if it meant I had to go through him to..
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It would be a lethal mistake to underestimate what she means to me.
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We lie there in our bed, legs twined together and it's a perfect moment, so perfect that I dare to believe the past cannot rip this from us. Our demons are finally not as strong as we are. Yet somehow, out of nowhere, I can almost hear Rebecca's voice in my head as she reads her written words. The rush of fear is far better than the defeat of boredom. The high of not knowing what comes next is so much better than always knowing one day will..
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Like you do," I say. "You help people, Chris, and I love that about you. You're helping Mark even though he doesn't deserve it from you." "I've found that in life, the times we need help are often the times we deserve it the least." "Sometimes people like Rebecca deserve it and they never have it."
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and open the
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Memories are the enemies that never die...
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Something I've wanted to call you for a very long time." "You Tarzan, me Jane?" she asked, teasing him."
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