If not for me being stoned and clinging to a taco, it would have been terribly romantic.

I hugged him without any kind of fear or self-consciousness, fiercely, with a rush of emotion that almost brought tears to my eyes. I could kiss you! Chubs cried. Please don't! I gasp out, feeling his...

He looked up and caught me staring, and for the first time that morning, neither of us looked away until Erin said, "J - pay attention! Just try to slap me." I broke the stare and turned to her. She...

{... } I pulled off his shirt, wanting to kiss his skin. He stepped back and straightened up. - In the war room, love? What if someone comes in? I stood up and took off his shirt. - Then you'll have a...

I am a bad man, very bad, but in a different way. I want to ravish you until we're both senseless with it, and then I want to do it all over again.

Sounds like that happens to you a lot. Bet your girlfriend wasn't thrilled, though. He said, raising his scarred eyebrow. His dark eyes crinkled. No one, she said. Well, I don't anymore, if anyone's...

I stumbled away. I pressed the back of my hand to my mouth and just looked at him. What was that? His chest rose and fell heavily. A kiss. Why? Why? He laughed. His blue eyes suddenly looked so sad....

His lips covered hers as he laid the gauze on her leg. Fiery pain shot through her flesh as his lips swallowed her cry, then replaced it with such amazing sensation she wanted to whimper in return. He...

You are not going to waltz in here and distract me with a clever phrase and a beguiling smile. You think my smile is beguiling?

But when Anthony kissed her, she felt as if she were losing her mind. And when he kissed her twice, she wasn't even sure if she wanted it back!

"Simon," she whispered, vaguely surprised that she had just used his first name, for she had never used it even in the privacy of her thoughts. Moistening her dry lips, she tried once more, and to her...

His heart beating too fast. He had always known he had no chance at finding a woman of his own, one who might be able to love him, to live with him, and in the blink of an eye that had turned around....

The woman, as small as she was, standing valiantly in the face of the threat the Saldi enforcers presented, sent heat rushing through his veins.

He buried his face in her neck and held her in his arms, absorbing the form the shape of her, the miracle of her. It had been so long since he held her, loved her, taken all that she was and given her...

Into the middle of that cauldron of intense, violent emotion suddenly came something soft and gentle. A wisp of memory. Courage. Beauty. A woman. Not any woman, but his woman, his lifemate. All red...

You freakin' hussy. You're going into heat aren't you? Oh my God I'm saving us both. We'll go back to the swamp. Even if he tries to track you, no one is as good as we are there. I just have to hide...

Fear wasn't the problem, she could deal with nerves, it was the excitement welling up in her that frightened her most. The unfamiliar emotion was too strong. Too needy. Too everything she was...

She could be soft and sensitive. He'd provide the armor for her.

He stayed right where he was, planted against the door, afraid to move. He'd walked into a room filled with enemies, never flinching, and would do it over and over, but this woman held the power to...

, he whispered into her mind.

Well…damn. It was so hard not to notice how beautiful he was, how kind, how smart and loving, how considerate.

I'm prepared to be a very patient man when it comes to you. I will seduce you for however long it takes – give you space if you need it or follow you tight as sunshine on your shoulder if you'll let...

I can't believe you let me touch you. His voice grew hoarse. I shall remember this for all my nights. Tears streamed into her eyes. Dearest Virgin Scribe, for all her life, she had waited for a moment...

Qhuinn smiled, baring his fangs. 'Has anyone ever shown you the difference between good touch and bad touch?' Cause I'd love to demonstrate. We could start right now.

Man, he wasn't going to need a stress test anytime soon. If his heart could get through a kiss from her, he could probably run a marathon. While dragging a car behind him. Sideways to the road.

I could not tell you if I loved you the first moment I saw you, or if it was the second or third or fourth. But I remember the first moment I looked at you walking toward me and realized that somehow...

There had to be a reason why they were not going to marry. They had both been so adamant about it. What the devil was the reason?

You're hot for Quinn. For a moment Amy froze like a bunny in the car headlights. Then she made a rude noise. Am not. Don't be ridiculous. Bullshit. You want to get busy with him. You want to climb him...

As the staff car carrying Generals Almond and Howe started down the road beside the runway, McCoy paused long enough to wonder where they were going, then turned and motioned to Jeanette Priestly to...

His fingers skimmed down her body, over skin and satin, and she shivered, leaning into him, and she was sure they both tasted like blood and ashes and salt, but it didn't matter; the world, the city,...