He kissed her as though he were starved for her. Like he'd been held away from her and had finally broken free. It was the kind of kiss that lived only in her fantasies. No one had ever made her feel so..consumed.

Girlfriends' code. What's discussed with girlfriends stays with girlfriends.

Tell me, warrior, how soon can we do this again?

Here we are, a man and a woman, both wanting the same things, and yet, you aren’t attracted to me.

You’re my dream, Alaric McCabe. And I love you. I’ve loved you from the moment your horse dumped you at my cottage. I spent so much time being resentful and lamenting the circumstances of my life, but ’tis true that I wouldn’t change a single thing because then I would have never known your love.

Men love a submissive woman, Damon said simply. Even when they say the don't. There's just something about a beautiful, soft woman looking to them to protect and take care of them that inspires a man to greatness.

How do you maybe hit someone?” Michael drawled. “Okay, so I decked him. At the time he deserved it.