Quotes from Lisa Renee Jones

I'm angry at Chris. I'm hurt. "Well, you know what I fear? This is my fear. This moment when, once again, you shut me out and I'm alone. If you were going to leave me alone, you should have walked away before now, when I still knew how to breathe without you.

This is who I am, Sara. I will protect you from everything and everyone else, but I can't protect you from who I am or who we will be if you stay with me.

All I want is the here and now, this piece of time. And please save the pillow talk for someone who wants it. Contrary to what you seem to think, I'm no delicate rose

In my book, privacy is like a great pair of high heels. To be cherished.

I might come but I won't like it." His lips turned up slowly. "You won't like it?" "Okay, I might like it, but I won't be happy I liked it." He bit back a broader smile.

He wants you. I want you. I can't walk away from you, Amy, and I have this sense that you could bolt at any minute. And yes, you're right. I'm being barbaric. And intense. That's who I am and I can't be anyone but me. When I want something, I go after it. And baby, I want you, and all I can say is you might be smart to run before I get any more into you, but please don't.

I don't know. What if I don't want to and you do?" " I just want you and us, baby. And when the time is right, and this hospital room isn't that time, I'll ask you to marry me properly and then take you pyramid hunting all over the world. You and me, baby. That's what I want.

What are you thanking me for?" "For being you, and it doesn't mater what name anyone calls you. I love you." His lips quirk."But I like how Amy Stone sounds. I like it alot.

You are my other half, Amy. I have to protect you.

You use arrogance and control to hide the real you. But I've seen you. I know you.

Then he says, "In a way, no one else has. No one.

You're the one thing keeping me grounded.

Mark's navigating dark and stormy waters, and I'm either going to pull him out, or drown with him. I don't know which.

He is an addiction, and addictions are never good for you. He's taking me deeper into his world, deeper into his dark desires, but I'm never able to get behind the physical aspect of our relationship. I just lose more of who I am.

I keep telling you, when you can't control the action, control the emotion.

I will tease you, bite you, and spank you.

Fear and a secret are two different things," I remind him, pointing out the difference in the two phrases.  "Often they come together. A secret that leads to fear in one way, shape, or form.

But I have every intention of making you forget everything but what it feels like to have my tongue and my cock buried inside you.

Never say never, baby," Chris replies, and then turns the key, bringing the soft purr of an expensive engine to life.

If you look closely and objectively, it becomes clear that life is just one big revolving door of people: some who matter, some who don't. Some that matter until they don't.

Until then," he says, all velvet and seduction, "I'll be fantasizing about the moment when the only thing wrapped around me is you.

The two men's gazes lock and I am suddenly swimming in a pool of testosterone, in need of a life raft.

What do I have to do to convince you I'm the one you should run to , not away from? Tell me and I'll do it.

I know until he owns me, until he feels like he has real control, we'll never have a real conversation.