I'm getting the impression that women, in any form, scare you."
He shrugged. "They're the more violent species. And unpredictable. I'd rather take on a wild boar. You can't shoot women.

Oh my Jesus," she breathed. "Evangeline, what do you do with all these wonderful young men?"

Evangeline choked and Drake squeezed her hand beneath the table, his features working up and down as he tried to suppress his laughter over Evangeline's mortification. Maddox smirked while Silas's lips turned up into a slow grin.

"Not nearly enough," Maddox said morosely.

Taking the leap felt appropriate. Only it wasn’t just a short hop. It was a full plunge off a cliff.

They won’t really shoot us, will they?” Faith whispered as they started forward.
“I’ll pretend I’m in labor if they do any funny stuff,” Angelina said in a low voice. “Pregnant women always scare the shit out of men.

When would he learn that women never stayed where you put them?

Some crushes just never went away. They built, instead, into something permanent, obsessive and all consuming.