If you allowed yourself to hear or feel amusement, you would hear and feel pain.

Amanda Ashley is a master storyteller.

He found a stuffed animal, a fluffy wolf with bright blue eyes, and was immediately drawn to it. "I want to get this for her. It is telling me it needs to go home with us." Francesca laughed at him.

The minute I'm in a little pain ... your rough, tough, scary bad boy image totally falls apart.

I look at you, and I see the most beautiful woman on the face of the earth. Inside and out you are beautiful. I know you better than anyone else could ever know you, because I can see into your thoughts and read your memories. The very light in you, our tremendous capacity for loving, humbles me.

Don't worry, now that I know about your little ego problem, I'll do my best to look all gushy when you pound you chest.

We could get kinky and see how bats and rats make love, he suggested in a whisper, warm breath against her neck. You are a sick man, Jacques. Very, very sick.