There’s no other way to look at you. You’re the definition of beauty.

You’ve got to admit that you live at the center of a vortex that seems to funnel nothing but trouble your way.” ~FBI Special Agent Clive Poole to Maggie Mae Castro

When I’m feeling this way, there’re only two activities that calm me down.” He shrugged. “Fighting’s one of them.””What’s the other?” she asked, then cursed herself for opening her stupid mouth.Because his green eyes were...

He stepped closer with an intense, thoughtful look on his face. “We shouldn’t do this.”Her heart gave a hard thud.”You probably can’t kiss.” Another step closer. “What does the doctor say?””We never kissed,” she deadpanned....

Honest to God, she was the noisiest woman he’d ever been shot at with.

I’m the only man she’s going to have.

I don’t want forever. I never did… I just want right now.

I’ll make you a deal. You can come with me to the meeting – if we can work out an agreeable plan – but you don’t kill him until I get what I want. I...

Never dilute vodka. Is sin.

Natalie was going to stay at home, cooking meals, baking pies, and making sure their life together was comfortable. When Zach came home from a hard day’s work, she wanted to be there for him,...

There’s beggary in the love that can be reckoned. (Anthony & Cleopatra – Shakespeare.

Here, you drive,” Erik said.”What? Why?””In case we do have to start shooting; I have a badge and you don’t,” he explained.”Fine. But for the record, I’m a better shot than you are.””For your information,...

Damn, this op has been like a fucking Love Boat episode.

In my experience there are only a handful of reasons for murder….Jealousy, vengeance, greed, fear and pleasure….Some killers enjoy the kill….For them it is a great game, and for the most part they are the...

Blood doesn’t make a family.

You know I’ll be the belle of the cell block with my creamy smooth skin and my tight little ass.

When he reached her, he touched a hand to her face. Smiled. “Important. That’s one word. Everything. That’s another. Loved,” he said, adding the most important word of all. “God, Darcy, you are so loved.

Cuba changed you. I changed you. And you are changing me.

She closed her eyes briefly, feeling sick. Olivia had experienced strangulation before. Having to look directly into the face of the person who was killing you made the experience beyond awful. But there were worse...

She wanted to ride him, to feel all that strength pulsing beneath her, but the most primitive part of her brain knew that this first time, he was going to be on top. A man...

When Dax turned to her, those blue eyes that reminded her of the Aegean Sea pinning her, all thought process left her mind.

Roger said, ‘I don’t know about having a shrink around all the time. Are you analyzing me right now?’Sophie rolled her eyes. ‘How original. No, I’m not analyzing you. It’d take a whole team of...

Awakened by the oppressive midday heat, Zach opened his eyes to see a small blue and tan lizard doing what looked like push-ups about a foot away from his face.

No, we don’t.” He liked meeting like this, over her bare ass, a hot-off-the-presses copy of the Rocky Mountain News, and a steaming cup of coffee. It was so perfect, he planned on doing it...

I’ll have to remember you think that way,” Nathan said.

Naturally I’m suspicious. Did you intentionally leave my clothes behind?

Honey, before I became the man who was to marry Olivia Hamilton, I was capable of taking care of myself. I can take care of you, too, for that matter. If you should ever decide...

She could forgive him for missing their dinner date, but she would never forgive him for dying.

Bra already forgotten, he was working on her pants, and he kissed every inch he bared, from her waist to her knees, then to her ankles, then her toes, one by one. he laid a...

Damn,” Crystal sputtered, looking up from the dictionary in disbelief. “Oenophlygia: the state of being dunk. It really is a word”.Johnny gloated unabashedly. “Just wouldn’t listen, would you? Just couldn’t stand that I might be...

She was strength and power and so many things he’d pretended for twelve years he didn’t miss, didn’t need.

I guess what they say is true. Anything the government wants to hide, they stick it in New Mexico

If you’re courting me, you have to tell me something about yourself that no one else knows.”He was silent for a moment. “I’d rather jerk-off to thoughts of you than be with anyone else.

She slid her hands up the front of Sawyer’s shirt, shoving at it, wanting to see and feel all of him. Every muscular inch he was trying to hide under his clothes. She felt almost...

And now she must continue the day as if the strange dream hadn’t picked up her life and shaken it upside down like a snow globe, dislodging everything that wasn’t glued down.”The Dream Jumper’s Promise

She lost herself in the kiss, moving her body against his, her excitement rising, the tension inside her spinning tighter and tighter.

All the bad in my life led me to her, which makes me think that I can live with the past if she is my future. —HEW

So if that’s how you think this is going to go, back out now.

Or three. Or four,” I added.

What exactly does the I in FBI stand for?” ~Maggie Mae Castro

He kissed her like he owned her, and in that moment, he did. The kiss was rough and punishing, his tongue forcing her lips open and sweeping into her mouth with greedy precision. Electricity raced...

It’s all messed up,” she said.”What is?” he asked quietly from behind her.”Us.””We’re doing okay.””I didn’t set out to trap you or anything.” Keith had accused her of that a hundred times.”I don’t feel trapped.””Why?””I’m...

The best part of falling in love is the mystery and excitement of not knowing. The worst part of falling in love is the mystery and agony of not knowing.

You’ll never forget,” Alden said, for the first time the pure evil of his soul showing in his eyes. His voice was bloodcurdingly gentle as he added, “And neither will I. Nothing feels as good...

If Shane had avoided her for years because of a kiss, he might leave the country over a blow and hand job.

Levi watched her carefully again, his gaze roaming over her face, as if he was trying to see into her mind. “You’re not lying. Why are you doing this?””Because if I try to shut you...

Sometimes I feel like a normal person. Sometimes I forget I’m on parole, that I’m not really free.

Zach kissed her forehead. “I’m not going to let anything like that happen to you again. You’re going to live out your days as the cosseted and cherished wife of a chief deputy U.S. Marshal.

He caught her, and he held her, and he let her cry, and cry, and cry, and he let her use his sheets to wipe her eyes, and her nose, and God knows what, because...

Erik got to his feet, aware of her watching him, and tried not to preen at the frank admiration in her eyes. Preening was not manly.