I freeze when I come face to face with a naked man’s chest. Why does this keep happening to me? Trying to keep my eyes averted from his very naked lower regions, I look up.

Arkadia wrapped her arms around his waist and laid her head upon the muscular cliff face he called his chest.

You want to be possessed, but not controlled. You want to be protected, but not smothered. You want to be dominated, but only in one way.

If you’re not, you will be when you poke your eye out on one of them.

Last warning. I don’t play nice.

To anyone who contemplates even nearing me while I sleep: I will garrote you with your own viscera.

I finally understand what a dickie-do is. Your gut does stick out more than your dickie do.

The cut under his eye and the split skin on his lower lip only enhanced his profile. He didn’t look defeated. He looked like a fighter. A champion.

If you die, Andrew, I’ll track you across multiple dimensions just to say I warned you,” she cautioned, voice tender.

Me? With only one woman forever and ever, blah, blah, blah. I don’t think so, brother. I am having too much fun with all the ladies in Johobin.”-Madison Thorne Grey, Sustenance (Breccan)

You’re causing the world to spin again, Keirah,” Wharick teased about her druid gift with nature. “You out of control? Do you need something to settle you down? he asked.

Your fiery spirit excites me, Keirah, like nothing I have ever felt before. Yet I have the overwhelming desire to put you over my knee when you don’t do as you are told.

All my life I thought love was supposed to be this amazing, wonderful feeling. I thought it was supposed to heal all wounds and conquer all. No one ever told me that it can leave...

You,” he purred, “are a HILF.””A what?””A Horseman I’d like to fuck.

His laughter echoed through my mind. I have a beautiful woman in my arms, and am taking her back to my home, where she and I will be alone and able to indulge whatever fantasies...

He moved to her other breast, then lower, lower…She rolled her hips insistently when he settled between her open legs, crouched like a predator about to devour his prey.

Want to grab a beer at Howler’s?”Drake blinked, unsure he’d heard him right. After just battering each other to a pulp, Gabriel wanted to geta drink with him?…”Why are you asking me?”Gabriel shrugged, then winced.”Because...

Two must rule together, one for the night and one for the day. this is the way it has always been done.

The woman trembled, eyes wide as she stared at the bluff. Her teeth pressed against her lower lip hard enough he wouldn’t have been surprised to see blood. Devyn recognized the building hysteria. His chest...

He should always wear jeans because they make him look hotter than a nebula. Black suits him too. It hugs to his muscular vales and swells, turning temptation into sexy man therapy.

Inhaling, I am ignited with the first breath of freedom

Aye,” he smiles, joy igniting in his stormy gray eyes, stroking my hand possessively as if unwilling to let me go for fear I am nothing more than a hallucination about to wear off.

Dean bristled at the idea of outsiders on our turf. I completely understood his apprehension. New people tended to want to kill us. I don’t know why. We were nice people.

If I were to lock you up in a dungeon, I guarantee you would not be bored.

My romantic history since arriving on Novo has been non-existent, but I don’t know what, if anything, came before; thanks to the government’s cerebral pilfering.

Fuathan don’t come out until after dark. Sunlight kills them.’‘Like vampires?’‘Kind of. Very mean, sub-aquatic vampires who don’t need to drink your blood, but might do it anyway, just for fun.

I’ve been deflecting Calypso’s blushes all day. I don’t have the energy to deflect yours,” he said through clenched teeth. “So either block or strip.” — The Twelfth House ~ The Elementals Book I

Okay, you’re starting to talk board game. Let’s go home, babe. I’ll get you into bed.

I don’t kid about fucking.

I didn’t even have a name for her, shade or human, but I didn’t need one to know her. (Eric)

Patti told me that to truly love someone ,you must hold them in a open hand.That was how I needed to love Kai. It was necessary to uncurl my fingers and let him go

Sometimes, that’s the way it is with people. You think you can tell what they are based on the patterns that you see, but when you take a look inside, they’re nothing like you expect...

It was never a good idea to laugh at a God as powerful as Hades. Although, the sight of him with cream-colored paint smeared in his raven dark hair and smudged on his nose was...

Christian submitted to the roll of his eyes, the churn of his stomach, the break in his knees. He willingly fell out of consciousness, surrendering his heart to the blackness. She was gone. He was...

She couldn’t take her eyes off him.He had sandy-blond hair and piercingly green eyes. Today he wore a deep-red T-shirt with the word BOUNCER printed across the back. The material pulled tightly over his muscular...

Freaking adorable,” I growled.

I can’t let it happen. I can’t risk it. I have to protect you, and I will. With every breath in me, I will.

There aren’t any syringes.” Red Sox came over and held a sterile pack out. When she tried to take it from him, he kept a grip on the thing. “I know you’ll use this wisely.””Wisely?”...

Are you sure?” Aidan asked, “Gavriel’s still a vampire.” “He warned me about you and about them. He didn’t have to. I’m not going to repay that by-” she hesitated, then frowned. “What did you...

But in the end, black can never be white, one plus one must always equal two, and Mara Lynn was a normal little girl.

By the time she yanked on her old jeans and a battered plaid flannel shirt, she felt almost normal. Calm, as she plugged in the coffee pot. But the nightmare was still very much on...

Between dainty bites, she told Amie, ‘Oh, you simply are as darling a creature as Henry described! I had no idea of your being so grown up! Henry, she is positively frazzleging!’ Amie deepened her...

I hated lying to my family.I had no choice.As a werewolf, the pack’d go apeshit if they found out I’d spent the last few months shagging a cat.~Kyle Larsen

Only that? I will see her bathed in blood before me.

He rose up over her, intending to enter her when she suddenly sat up and shoved at his shoulders. He fell onto his back with a grunt. Shara was on all fours, her hair tousled,...

I do not doubt your intellectual or spiritual equality with me, mate. When I saw you belong to me, it is only because I belong so utterly to you, as well.

Suddenly, I saw ocean again—then another horizon line—but this time the deep blue sky was on the wrong side of the line…the Holy crap, we’re upside down side.

That was why he still hadn’t called her. He wasn’t sure what the hell he was going to say if she picked up. Evie, I’m really sorry about acting like a complete dick to you....

My goal is that Julie and Brody do not become the other’s half. They should be two wholes that become a greater one. That is the only way to overcome evil in the end.

Oh, come on!”Lothaire