Until you, I didn't consider my past as an issue. Yes, it affected certain ways I did things, but everything had its place and I wasn't unhappy. In fact, I thought I had a comfortable and uncomplicated life." "Oh boy." My nose wrinkled. "Hello, Mr Comfortable. I'm Miss Complicated." His grin flashed. "Never a dull moment.

I'm an animal with you," he murmured. "I want to mark you. I want to possess you so completely there's no separation between us.

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

Most suits made the man. Gideon did things to a three-piece suit that should've been illegal.

Gideon was a man who’d lived an entirely solitary life, and yet he’d accepted me into it so completely that he could envision a future I was afraid to imagine. I was so scared I’d only be setting myself up for a heartbreak I couldn’t survive.

I don't need anything else. I get out of bed every morning and face the world because you're in it.

I know it's not fair to ask you to be with me when we can't even sleep in the same bed, but I'll love you better than anyone else could. I'll take care of you and make you happy. I know I can.