Can I take advantage of you in the limo?” His eyes laughed at me. “By all means, angel mine.

I'm still not sure I didn't hallucinate the conversation while overdosing on his pheromones.

What I want is for both of us to feel safe. What you and I have together shouldn't be draining us like this. It should be the one rock-solid thing we both count on.

Sometimes I wanted to believe something so badly, I deliberately manufactured excuses and ignored painful reality.

If I owned Gideon, he possessed me. I couldn’t imagine belonging to anyone else.

I supposed, perhaps, you miss the promise of what could have been, while at the same time you are grateful that what it was instead is over.

It's going to be a lot of work, Gideon," Eva warned him. "I'm not afraid of work." He was touching me restlessly as if it were as necessary to him as breathing. "I'm only afraid of losing you.