“Bella, I've already expended a great deal of personal effort at this point to keep you alive. I'm not about to let you behind the wheel of a vehicle when you can't even walk straight. Besides, friends don't let friends drive drunk,” he quoted with a chuckle. I could smell the unbearably sweet fragrance coming off his chest. “Drunk?” I objected. “You're intoxicated by my very presence.” He was grinning that playful smirk again.

The best part is coming." "What's the best part? You swallowing an entire cow whole?" "No. That's the finale.

You nickednamed my daughter after the Loch Ness Monster?

And then I saw the way he looked at her... like he was a blind man, seeing the sun for the very first time.

I promise to love you forever - every single day of forever.

"Victoria?" she hissed. "Laurent?" I nodded, a teensy bit alarmed by the expression in her black eyes. I pointed at my chest. "Danger magnet, remember?"

I'd been broken beyond repair.