I’m just more honest than everyone else. I don’t wait for the damage to come to me. I go out and find it.

Pain and pleasure aren’t really different, are they?” he asked. “Like flipping your pillow over in the middle of the night. One side warm, one cold. You must have one before the other feels good again.

Simon laughed heartily. “I’m afraid the rest of us have to find talents to get our women into bed. Of course once they’re there, I have other talents that keep them right where they are.”

“Handcuffs hardly count,” Christian said offhandedly.

“If you mean the ladies cuffing me to the bed so they can explore Hunt Island,” he said, rubbing his chest, “…then point taken. These hands are capable of making any female climax by the mere brush of a pinky across her bare breast.”

“I must have gone to the wrong island,” I said with a private laugh.

Every person you meet in your life is your destiny. We alter the course of every life we touch, whether we realize it or not.

As it so happens, I like your mouth."

"It doesn't -- "

"Challenge me?" He set the bottle down and moved to the end of the bed. "An outspoken woman makes the world a livable place. You have fire in you, and I would never put that out.

Never expect anything less than devotion from someone who has claim on your heart.