She crushed it, telling herself she was going to add Big in front of her Idiot tattoo.

You sure got a quick trigger, Sienna," he teased.

We fit, you and I,” he whispered looking into that haunting gaze. “Two broken pieces making a whole.

Truth was a tool. It should never simply be said. No, it had to be bent, twisted, colored, until it became a weapon.

Some things need to be broken to become stronger.

I shouldn’t ask you to,” he said, devotion in every word, “but I’m going to. Wait for me, Jess. I’ll come back to you.” Naked emotion turned the sea green into hidden emeralds. Pressing her fingers to his lips, she shook her head. “You never have to ask, Galen. Forever, that’s how long I’d wait for you.

Content in a way he’d rarely been before Mercy, he simply stroked her until she purred. It delighted him as it always did. “I made you purr.” A lazy yawn. “I’m faking it.