One more secret smile. One more shared laugh. One more electric kiss. Finding him was like finding someone I didn’t know I was searching for.

Don’t make me regret this,” I said, breathless.”You haven’t regretted me once.

I couldn’t stand here, hanging on, when the very thing I held disappeared more with each passing day.

He was abominable…and the most alluring, tortured soul I’d ever met.

I know I can’t feel your touch, but I feel your love, Nora. Inside me. It means everything to me. I wish I could feel you the same wayyou feel me, but I have your...

Keep in mind that people change, but the past doesn’t.

You possess other people’s…bodies.”He accepted that statement with a nod.”Do you want to possess my body?””I want to do a lot of things to your body, but that’s not one of them.

You’re a guardian angel now.” I was still too much in awe to wrap my mind around it, but at the same time I felt amazement, curiosity…happiness.”I’m your guardian angel,” he said.”I get my very...

Sometimes bad things have to happen before good things can.

Hang on, did you just call me Angel?” I asked.”If I did?””I don’t like it.”He grinned. “It stays, Angel.

I couldn’t escape him, now or ever. He’d always be there, consuming my every thought, my heart locked in his hands. I was drawn to him by forces I couldn’t control, let alone escape.

If I’d wanted you dead five minutes ago, you’d have died five minutes ago.

Being with you never felt wrong. It’s the one thing I did right. You’re the one thing I did right.

Not that kind of ride,” he said slowly.

She’ll kill me if she finds you in here. Can you climb trees? Tell me you can climb a tree!”Patch grinned, “I can fly.

I love you more than I think I should.

This isn’t your fight, Patch,” I said quietly.His eyes burned with an intensity I’d never seen before. “You’re mine, Angel, and don’t you forget it. Your fights are my fights. What if something had happened...

Did I really want to stay on this road longer, knowing it was only going to end in devastation?

I could get you to smile like that, and without sales tax.” I whirled around to find the real Patch standing in the fitting room behind me. He was wearing jeans and a snug white...

Are you gloating inside? That’s what this is about, isn’t it? Getting me to trust you so you could blow it up in my face!” […]”I get that you’re angry—,” said Patch.”I am ripped apart!”...

I might have gone overboard.”I walked into the kitchen, with gleaming stainless-steel appliances, black granite countertops, and walnut cabinetry. Very masculine, very sleek. I went for the fridge first. Water bottles, spinach and arugula, mushrooms,...

Any happiness, no matter how brief, seemed better than the long, simmering torture of waking up day after day, knowing I could never have him.

I believe in destiny Angel. I believe every choice I’ve made has brought me closer to you. I looked for you for a very long time. I may have fallen from heaven, but I fell...