brazen

You're gonna have to hold on tight, because this rodeo is just getting started.

Not everything worth learning is summarized in book. Sometimes you've got to rely on instincts.

You want a wild ride, J.J.? I'll give it to you, hard and slow until you scream my name.

Sometimes the journey to love involves some bumpy detours, as any girl with an - ex-fiance will tell you. But I've learned a smooth trip isn't particularly important. Getting there is what matters.

Type A Ellie liked to know the rules, like knowing what to expect. Flying blind made her nervous. He prepared to make her all kinds of nervous.

She shouldn__ be this close to Cole, not alone, not even when she was pissed beyond belief. It was too dangerous, since she had yet to find a cure for I-hate-you-but-I-want-to-fuck-your-brains-out-itis.

I must say, cowboy, I'm impressed. I was worried you could only handle eight seconds at a time.

Sweetheart, I__e been there with you through all of it. I was the one who camped out with you in that old tree house for days on end and held you after your mom died. It was me who sat with you while we waited for your sister to come out of the surgery that cut out her cancer. I was the one holding your hand while we waited for those test results to come back, and I was the one who supplied the alcohol to get you drunk, and the shoulder to cry on while you processed it. I understand. You don__ have to do this alone.

Is that a baton in your pocket, officer, or are you just happy to see me?

You know,_ she stammered, resenting the way her body reacted to his touch with fireworks and songbirds, __ kind of hate you sometimes.___f that__ code for __ want to fuck you until I can__ walk straight_, then I kind of hate you, too.

I__e done things I__ not proud of and I__ trying really hard to make up for those things by being a decent guy. And decent guys don__ act the way I__e been acting around you, so I__ going to stop.

Tonight isn__ for the baby. This is just you and me.

Gripping her wrists, he pinned her tight to the vanity. __hat sex as a weapon thing can only get you so far, Tess.__anna bet? ____ not damaged, cowboy. I don__ have hang-ups about my body, I don__ use sex to mask my problems___uch___nd right now, if you don__ touch me in some very hot, very wet places, I might die.

This pride of yours, it__ admirable as all get-out, but there has to come a point in your life where you admit you need a hand. Pain might be necessary, but suffering is optional. Are you going to let me be the fucking man here and help my woman?

The only reason I can__ jump in and engage life is that I__e told myself I can__. Yet I can__ helping wondering would happen if I told myself I could?

You__e going to need more than an average kissing game to get with me, Cross.___othin_ average about that kiss.__he sighed. __on__ beg. It__ so unTexan.

An inappropriate attraction to your friend__ fiancé was grounds for disbarment from the Woman Club. Neither did it make a lick of sense. He was uncouth, uneducated, uncivilized. All of their conversations back then had been unholy bicker fests where they charged from the opposite ends of the spectrum, determined not to meet in the middle but to rip pieces out of each other on the drive by.

Flynn was kissing her again, not to help her forget but to force her to remember. Everything he had meant to her then. Everything he meant to her now. How he always had been, and forever would be, her world.