Quotes from Natalie J. Damschroder

Rogan caught her hand just before she got out of his reach, and tugged her slowly back toward him. His eyes met hers, and she realized just how good an actor he'd been for the last few days. Where before she saw mild interest, now she saw intensity. Need. Purpose. He put his hand on the back of her head and dipped down for the kiss she'd daydreamed.

Rogan] "I've been watching you, and you're more confident and decisive than any woman I've ever known. There's no pretense to you. No concern that what you're doing is the wrong thing, or that you're not doing it right." "And you don't like those traits in a woman?" "I do. I didn't know that until I found them.

What he'd wanted before had crumbled away, leaving the truth of what Kennedy did to him. It was new, and there was a long way to go before it could be right, but that was the path he wanted to take.

Can you feel this He flattened her hand on his chest. His heart thudded rapidly against her palm. It always does this when you're near me. When you're not, I'm looking for you, feeling something missing. I'm not whole when you're not around. It took being with you again to discover how empty my life was without you in it. - Brady Fitzpatrick

She was strength and power and so many things he'd pretended for twelve years he didn't miss, didn't need.

Can you feel this? He flattened her palm on his chest. His heart thudded rapidly against her palm. It always does this when you're near me. When you're not, I'm looking for you, feeling something missing. I'm not whole when you're not around. It took being with you again to discover how empty my life was without you in it. - Brady Fitzpatrick

Then it was silent. Heavy now, not the sleepy silence of before. The kind of silence that meant horrifying things.

He'd gone broody & quiet, as if considering something major. Then boom—Good-bye Broody Brady, hello Lovesick Nutcase.