“There was the amount of time you’d known someone and then there was the way you’d spent that time.”
— Jill Shalvis
“You’re only as strong as your biggest weakness.”
— Jill Shalvis
“You’re sweet to humor me.”He nearly choked on a fry. There was the sweet again. He should have killed someone this week; that would have taken care of that.”
— Jill Shalvis
“I don’t want to dig him or his sexy self. But I keep losing my clothes when I’m with him.”
— Jill Shalvis
“Wyatt should’ve looked ridiculous sitting on the floor, leaning into the crate makingkissykiss noises at the cat, but he didn’t. He looked … mouthwatering. “Hey, sweet thing,” he said in a low cajoling voice. “Come on out. I’ll gonna love you up, I promise. You know you want some of that.”“Oh, please,” Emily said on a laugh to cover up the fact that her bones melted at thesound of him. “That’s never going to work—“But hell if the cat didn’t shift ever so slightly closer to Wyatt and sniff at him.Wyatt flashed both Sweetie and Emily a smile. “Aw, that’s it,” he crooned to thesuspicious, wary cat. “Come on, baby girl, all the way. I’ll be good to you, I promise.”Emily laughed again, even as she felt her nipples tighten. She crossed her arms over herchest. “Honestly, Wyatt, no selfrespecting female – cat or woman – is going to—”
— Jill Shalvis
“We could sit around and talk if you’d like.””Okay.” She crossed her arms and tried to look casual. “So what’s up?” “Considering what you’re wearing beneath that sheet, and what we just heard in the hallway, you might want to rephrase that particular statement.”
— Jill Shalvis
“She wished now she’d brought that vibrator as a flashlight instead of leaving it on the couch.”
— Jill Shalvis
“Damn. A dead body. I hate it when that happens.”
— Jill Shalvis
“If I call him back here,” Cooper whispered in her ear, “will you crawl up my body again?”
— Jill Shalvis
“Welcome,” the man said in utter contradiction to his urban street clothes. He eyed the vibrator in Cooper’s hand but whatever his thoughts were on a guy wielding a vibrator, he kept to himself. “I’ll get some candles.”
— Jill Shalvis
“Having plans sounds like a good idea – until you have to put on clothes and leave your house.”
— Jill Shalvis
“I don’t want to talk about it,” she said. Once again he was close. Too close. So damn close. “At all,” she added, hearing with some alarm that her voice had softened. Everything had softened, at just his proximity. “Ever,” she whispered, and found her gaze locked on his mouth.He had a really great mouth.“I don’t want to talk, either,” that mouth said very seriously. And then he lowered his head and kissed her.”
— Jill Shalvis
“She had no idea how long they kissed—and kissed—but she didn’t think about stopping until she ran out of air. Breathing hard, she slowly opened her eyes and stared directly into his.They’d heated. Darkened. And something else. He wasn’t looking so relaxed now. In fact, he was looking the opposite of relaxed. He looked…feral.And she was his prey.”
— Jill Shalvis
“I made a tactical error tonight with Wyatt.” She paused “Horizontally.” Sara laughed. “Again?”
— Jill Shalvis
“You know what you are, Sam Brody?” she whispered, wrapping her arms around his neck. “A big, fat tease.” They both knew there wasn’t an ounce of fat on him. They also both knew exactly what she meant.”
— Jill Shalvis
“I don’t want to talk about it,” she said. Once again he was close. Too close. So damn close. “At all,” she added, hearing with some alarm that her voice had softened. Everything had softened, at just his proximity. “Ever,” she whispered, and found her gaze locked on his mouth.He had a really great mouth.”
— Jill Shalvis
“She was carrying two coffees and a donut bag, and right then and there, he fell in love.”-Animal Magnetism”
— Jill Shalvis
“She’s drunk dialing contractors ” Chloe said to Tara. “Someone should stop her.”
— Jill Shalvis
“He rocked her against him. “No idea what I’m going to do with you.” She didn’t know what he was going to do with her either, but she hoped it was good.”
— Jill Shalvis
“Her hands slid to his shoulders, his biceps, and dug in as if to hold him here, right here. But he wasn’t going anywhere. He liked her hands on him, liked her tongue in his mouth, and when she made that noise deep in her throat, the one that said she was as lost as him, he groaned, both in pleasure and with a good amount of what-the-fuckery, because he knew.He was in trouble. Down to the bone trouble, and he didn’t give one single shit.”
— Jill Shalvis
“Go away. I hate everyone right now, and I’m pretty sure that includes you.”
— Jill Shalvis
“Experience is what you get when you didn’t know what you wanted.”
— Jill Shalvis
“Good judgment comes from bad experience. Unfortunately, most of that comes from bad judgment.- Tara Daniels –”
— Jill Shalvis
“Look,” she said, “apparently you bring out my inner slut. I’m not going to thank you for that.”Wyatt smiled that sexy smile of his. “I could make you.”She pointed a finger at his nose. And then lowered it so it was pointed at another part of his anatomy entirely. “Don’t even think about it.”“Oh, I won’t,” he said silkily. “But you will.”And she knew he was right.”
— Jill Shalvis
“Are we going to be stupid?” she whispered.“Define stupid.”“Anything that involves either one of us exposing our favorite body parts.” Or their hearts…“I want to hear about your favorite body part,” he said. “In great detail.”
— Jill Shalvis
“I’ve got this.”
— Jill Shalvis
“That was one of the things she loved about him. He assumed she could walk and chew gum at the same time. He never second-guessed her, and he didn’t try to change her. He accepted.”
— Jill Shalvis
“He was just drifting off when he heard her soft whisper. “Cooper?” “Still here.” Maybe she’d changed her mind about the sheet. The thought made his body twitch. Yeah, she was going to toss that damn thing aside and roll toward him. She’d wrap that hot little bod tight to his, and he’d — “Thank you.” Breanne said very quietly. He blinked. “Thank you? He slid his hand down to cup himself. Still hard. Nope, he hadn’t missed anything…”
— Jill Shalvis
“I’m ready,” she promised. She kissed his jaw and then rubbed her cheek against it, letting out a low hum of arousal at the feel of his stubble on her skin. He had a scent that every single one of her senses responded to. The texture of his skin, the taste of his tongue, the latent strength in his hands – everything about him did it for her. “I want this,” she said. “I want you.”
— Jill Shalvis
“This had already been the best sex she’d ever had and all he’d done was touch her.”
— Jill Shalvis