Is everything a joke to you?” I asked. He dabbed his tongue to his lip again. “Not everything.” “Like what?” “You.

This is crazy," I told Patch in an undertone. "I'm crazy." He was on the brink of smiling again. "About you.

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

Did you hear something, Nora?” Vee asked. “I thought I heard something.” “You definitely heard something,” I agreed. “Could that be … a dog fart I heard?” Vee asked me.

The trouble was, my feelings for Patch weren't harmless.

Patch grinned down at me. “I’m hard to resist.

I'd fallen in love with the devil.