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By AnonymKristen Callihan
Ah, now,” crooned Adam, “here we are, then.” With infinite care, as though he were handling a babe, he lifted the sword out, and a sigh seemed to go through him. “Ah, my lovely, it’s been far too long.” “Shall I leave you two alone, then?” Eliza’s lips twitched. She’d never seen such a look of reverence mixed with old familiarity. It was nearly indecent. Adam spared her a glance. “Quiet woman, a man’s relationship with his sword is a sacred thing.” “So I’ve heard.
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By AnonymKristen Callihan
A kiss, he said, is a conversation. Easing closer, he continued to speak as he caressed her cheeks with featherlight stokes of his thumbs. "A first kiss", his lips neared hers, is an introduction and then his mouth brushed against hers. The contact sparked, sharp and bright like lightning, yet his lips were soft, unexpectedly so. Her breath caught the same instant his did. Against her mouth he whispered "That was Hello" His breath mingled with hers as he waited, his lips so close she could feel their warmth. For a moment she simply breathed him in growing heady on the scent of him and the tight anticipation gathering in her belly. Then she understood. Nerves fluttering, she brushed her lips across his as he had done. Again his breath hitched, as if he too felt that same spark, that hot need. Her eyes drifted closed and his voice poured over her like warm cream. "This is, 'I'm Jack'.
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By AnonymKristen Callihan
And who shall you be once you don your grand disguise?" "La luna," she said with a smile. "Then I shall be la notte to your moon" Archer lifted the hard black mask he held and slipped it over his thinner silk one
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By AnonymKristen Callihan
Because we know he was simply a man, with weakness and frailties. Who yearned for the same things all of us do--to love and be loved
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By AnonymKristen Callihan
but at the end of the day, who I come home to, who I share my accomplishments with is what makes the struggle worth it
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By AnonymKristen Callihan
Christ," he said to the tiny reflection of himself that floated along the surface of his coffee, "You have become quite the maudlin sop, haven't you? Laughing softly, he rubbed a hand over his face. Step one on the road back to sanity, stop talking to yourself.
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By AnonymKristen Callihan
GrayG: I feel like I can tell you anything. IvyMac: You can. That's what friends do. GrayG: I've never been friends with a girl before. IvyMac: I'm honored to be your first.
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By AnonymKristen Callihan
He's going to kill me. They'll find me lying on the floor, my heart burt wide open, too full of him to stay in my chest.
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By AnonymKristen Callihan
I can turn into anything," he said with emphasis. "Even another werewolf." When Daisy blinked back at him, too dumbfounded to speak, Talent laughed, heartily. She'd been correct. He was devastating when he truly smiled. "Haven't you learned, woman? You've fallen off the map. Here there be monsters.
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By AnonymKristen Callihan
I feel you," he said, "whether stalking me through the streets of London, or hiding behind a screen in my library.
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By AnonymKristen Callihan
If life has taught me anything it’s to appreciate what you’ve got. Take something for granted and it could be gone before you even realized what you had.
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By AnonymKristen Callihan
If you knew I was there, then why did you…” Her words died on a flush. Bloody Talent. “Pleasure myself?” he offered helpfully. ... “I admit,” she said, “it baffles me that you didn’t fly into a rage the moment you realized I was there. You were unclothed, for pity’s sake.” Fierce heat filled her cheeks. She needed to stop talking altogether. Talent’s mouth trembled at the corner, his eyes alight with utter glee. “Chase, the idea of a woman watching is in no way a deterrent for a man. It adds a level of excitement.” She would die now. Surely fate could be kind to her for once.
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By AnonymKristen Callihan
I love you." He stabbed a thumb at his chest as he glared at her. Of course he did. Lucien had never hidden the fact. But the love of a friend, while comforting, was not enough anymore. It did not soothe the restless discomfort that pushed against her chest or quell the loneliness that seemed to grow within her each passing day.
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By AnonymKristen Callihan
Indeed, for the first time in memory, she felt… not comfortable, precisely—he affected her too much for her to relax into that emotion—but safe. She felt she might say anything she wished and not be ridiculed for her opinion, nor forced to justify her existence or usefulness. The sensation was a breath of clean air in the deepest of London fogs.
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By AnonymKristen Callihan
I won't be a substitute for what you cannot have. Especially not if it is my sister's shadow you mean to place me in.
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By AnonymKristen Callihan
Lord above, was there a better sight than a woman flush with passion, her skin dewy and pink, her breasts bouncing from the force of his thrusts?
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By AnonymKristen Callihan
... Mary bit her lip. “She is merely saying hello.” Oh, I am, Tottie agreed. I’ve been wanting to say hello to Mr. Jack for an age, personal-like. Her hand glided over his chest and headed down. Such a fine cocky fella, ye are. Shall we see if it’s all just tall tales, then, me lad?
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By AnonymKristen Callihan
Perhaps there are some things we can't let go of, but simply accept as over.
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By AnonymKristen Callihan
She glared at me. I didn't care. One word was playing a loop in my heaad: mine.
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By AnonymKristen Callihan
She ought to call him Benjamin, but it was too intimate, too soft. "My lord?" she ventured, only half serious. "Good, God, no." She bit back a smile. "Husband?" she took a sip of wine. He grunted. "Are we to become Quakers?
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By AnonymKristen Callihan
There are times when a girl needs sexy. That's the thing no one ever tells you. Sexy can be both a weapon and a wall of defense.
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By AnonymKristen Callihan
There is one absolute truth. The sum of my existence equals you.
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By AnonymKristen Callihan
There were lies, and there were lies. Was a secret a lie? If one wanted to protect another?
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By AnonymKristen Callihan
The whole of my life I have relied on my beauty first, brains second. It was expected, even requested. But You saw right through me from the start. You are the only man I've ever known who has looked beyond my face and wanted to know me for me. And I find myself wanting you to know the whole me.
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By AnonymKristen Callihan
Things must be done, life must go on. Life would go on, even if every breath she took hurt, even if her joints ached when she moved. Sorry and loneliness were an insidious evil, for they lived in the mind. One could not take a tonic and see them dissipate.
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By AnonymKristen Callihan
This message is brought to you by the BCBS [Booty Call Broadcasting System]. If you are back in town, get your wet ass over here." (The Hook Up, 42%)
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By AnonymKristen Callihan
Walking next to Talent, she felt the singular, cozy comfort that steals upon one who is with a good friend.
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By AnonymKristen Callihan
What is beauty or ugliness but a false front that prompts man to make assumptions rather than delving deeper.
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By AnonymKristen Callihan
You know, it's never wise to tempt the devil" His gaze lowered to her hand, still locked in his grip, her finger glistening with pear juice. His rich voice lowered to raw huskiness "had I not this mask, I should be of a mind to suck that juice right off your fingers
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