The thing was, though, the ridiculous, pansy-ass saying was right: If you loved someone, you set them free.
The thing was, when you served another, when you lived a role determined by someone else…you could not go back to that constriction once you found out who you truly were. She
The thing was, when you were young, and you went to your parents for support, nine times out of ten, they could fix whatever was wrong. They could glue the broken rudder back on your sailboat. Throw a...
The trainee knew he should leave, but he was unable to look away. He'd never seen anything snap out so fast or strike so hard as the male's fists. Obviously, the rumours about the instructor were all...
The trouble was, he realized with dread, when your heart finally stopped beating in your chest, everything that you wished you’d said but hadn’t, all the missing pieces of yourself that you had yet to...
The two of them paused at the first of the three steps up onto the front porch. Man, some open doors were not welcoming, and that was so the case here—less hi-how’re-ya, more come-in-so-your-skin-can-...
The vision had been of him naked and Butch wrapped around him, the two of them high up in the sky, entwined in the midst of a cold wind. Jesus Christ, he was deranged. Deranged and perverted. Look, I’...
The waitress looked a little awkward. Is all that for both you and your sister?
The windshield wipers were on, and periodically, they made a swipe that gave her a momentarily clear view of the opposite shore. And it was funny, life was a bit like that, wasn't it. You went along,...
Then Rhage kissed each and every scar. She
Then again, when you were facing the right person? None of the things they talked about on television, no Vera Wang dress, no champagne waterfall, no DJ or place setting or party favor mattered. ‘I,
There is no fight – I’m yours. If you want, here and now. Or later. A week, a month, years from now.
There was a reason for rituals. When you were lost in your own life, they provided a false structure, like paper walls for your house of cards, the illusion that things were predictable and safe somet...
There was a sniffle from the crowd. At which point, Rhage’s voice hissed, What. This is beautiful, ’kay? Fuck all y’all.
There were times in life when, as much as you wanted to fight for something, you just had to let it go.You didn't have to like the failure.You didn't have to feel really fucking great about the way th...
There’s no goodbye for you and me, she announced. So you can just cut that shit out right now. I am very aware of what you’re doing, checking in with the people in this household, going around, seeing...
These were gym towels. They were supposed to be thin and mean, the terry-cloth equivalent of coyotes. When you were sweating like a pig and couldn’t feel the bottoms of your feet from exertion, you di...
V? Butch said. Don't leave, okay?Never. V brushed Butch's hair back with a gesture so tender it was out of place coming from a male.
What is this, Ruhn thought…especially as sexual arousal curled around his hips, sure as if hands were touching him— Saxton looked over without warning and stopped as he saw that he was in the regard o...
What, like you didn’t think I’d have a second knife? Fucking idiot.
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