“Will we have pets? I bite back the question regarding kids. While this might be a fun fantasy, imagining being responsible for something like that is terrifying.Sure. Noah stays near the fire on on...”

“Shes leaving me!Leaving? Shes been waiting for you to get your shit together.I step into him. That Hunter bastard is offering her the world! What do I got to give? Nothing. Ive got nothing.Isaiah s...”

“His eyes spark as his gaze dips to my cleavage, and this gives me courage. I shift forward and slip my hands under his shirt, brushing my fingers against the muscles of his abdomen. Noah sharply in...”

“Whos winning?I dont have a f*cking clue nor do I f*cking care.Echos head ticks back.Back off, Beth. I cross the room, drop a kiss on the curve of Echos neck and whisper in her ear, Shed rip me to p...”

“Just a shower. If you want me to stay on the opposite side, I will. I wont kiss. I wont touch.Echo flashes that siren smile. What if I want to kiss you?Youre trying to kill me, arent you?”

“My body screams to stride over to her, wrap my arms around her waist, kiss her until shes drunk on me and slowly remove every article of clothing on her body.”

“Anna thought about the men outside on the gallery. She was glad they were there; finding them smoking and talking quietly had been comforting, it was what men did in the evenings when the work was ...”

“Her arms groped forward to guide her when her tears blocked her vision in darkness. Then she couldn't run any more. She sank to her knees and began to cry in her terror. She wanted Gary.She suddenl...”

“Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast,Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round,And, while the bubbling and loud hissing urnThrows up a steamy column and the cupsThat cheer but not inebr...”

“Don't cry over someone who wouldn't cry over you.”

“Eventually something you love is going to be taken away. And then you will fall to the floor crying. And then, however much later, it is finally happening to you: youre falling to the floor crying ...”

“Weeping is not the same thing as crying. It takes your whole body to weep, and when it's over, you feel like you don't have any bones left to hold you up.”

“I've got you. I swear to God, I've got you," said Noah. "Stay with me, Echo."I wanted to. I wanted to stay with him, but the shouting and screams and glass breaking in my mind grew louder. "Make it...”

“Shes leaving me!Leaving? Shes been waiting for you to get your shit together.I step into him. That Hunter bastard is offering her the world! What do I got to give? Nothing. Ive got nothing.Isaiah s...”

“His eyes spark as his gaze dips to my cleavage, and this gives me courage. I shift forward and slip my hands under his shirt, brushing my fingers against the muscles of his abdomen. Noah sharply in...”