Christine Feehan
Family isn’t always blood, baby,” he said, I was lucky enough to have a woman take me as her child and teach me what family really is. We didnt have much, but we had each other.Collection: Romance
He held her, his arms tight around her, trying to tell her without words, that no matter what, he would be there for her.Collection: Romance
It was an observation, not a judgment. Shylah liked the way Draden seemed to reserve his conclusions until he had the facts.Collection: Romance
Honey, he’s not worth it. No matter how much money he’s got, not matter how big a ring he puts on your finger, if he puts his hands on you, you should run the opposite way as fast as you can.Collection: Romance
You aren’t alone. You aren’t one anymore. It’s the two of us. Together. We do this together. That was the plan. That was your promise and I count on you.Collection: Romance
That fantasy mouth smiled. The kind of smile that could melt the panties off a nun. Holy Cow.Collection: Romance
Since I’ve had to endure your ugliness my entire life, I’m immune to whatever venom you choose to spew. However, and you’d better hear me, Eloisa, I will not tolerate you doing the same thing to my woman. She’s my choice. She’s always going to be my choice.Collection: Romance
It had been hard to tell him. Very hard. She’d learned not to trust anyone, but more importantly, she knew not to get close to anyone.Collection: Romance
The air was hot and humid. Sultry. Her body seemed to have caught some of the intensity of the storm. She felt a little wild and out of sorts. Edgy. On the verge of something big.Collection: Romance
He stared down into her eyes, holding her there like he could, just with his gaze, mesmerizing her. Keeping her captive, under his spell. A slow smile transformed the hard edges of his handsome face. He was so beautiful to her. A gorgeous man and she was falling more and more in love with him.Collection: Romance
It wasn’t about a women’s weight, it was about who they were, if that brightness shone through their eyes and skin and hair. Ricco found beauty in art. Women were a form of art. All shapes and sizes. All body types.Collection: Romance
She saw him, that man who kept himself isolated, so separate from the rest of the world. She saw him for who he was, and she liked him anyway.Collection: Romance
Every moment I’m with you, bambina, I fall harder. It’s difficult for mr to believe you’re real. You aren’t the only one a little terrified.Collection: Romance
He pulled her into his arms and kissed her like she was his and had been for years. Like he was a man dying and she was his greatest love. He felt like she was. Shylah Cosmos. His only little peony. His delicate flower. Dependable. Long-lived.Collection: Romance
He’d been the one to end things, and it had been ugly. Really ugly. Deliberately ugly. He’d said things to drive her away – and she’d gone. She’d managed to take pieces of him with her. She’d stolen those pieces from him, and he’d known when she’d left, he wasn’t going to get them back.Collection: Romance
I detested that people who already had everything they could possibly want would step on others who had nothing. Would use them and crush them. I’d lived my life mainly in the streets and found out the hard way that people who could have helped just hurt us.Collection: Romance
He’d loved that she’d fought back, that she was no pushover. That wasn’t wanted in a woman, but maybe it was just what he needed.Collection: Romance
His expressionless mask had slipped and she saw him, his fierce demons and turbulent needs mixed with dark, ferocious passion. He would never be like other men. He would always be dominant, scary to enemies and yet gentle with those he loved.Collection: Romance
I’m letting myself fall for you. All the way. I want that. You’re definitely the kind of man I want.Collection: Romance
I’m not a good man, Ania, and you’re a good woman. A man like me has to think long and hard before he decides to bring a woman like you into his world.Collection: Romance
She had captured his heart and he didn’t ever want it back.Collection: Romance
It was wondrous. Almost unbelievable. Like champagne bubbles, but in her soul. She felt effervescent. And so in love.Collection: Romance
He was such a mixture, tough as nails and lethal, but with her, unfailingly a gentleman, tender and sweet, looking out for her so carefully.Collection: Romance
Above all other things, GhostWalkers were enhanced to be able to disappear into the night, fade into darkness and remain undetected by an enemy no matter how close they got to him- or her.Collection: Romance
It won’t work that way. You know me, Bree. You ‘know’ me. I might have misled things at the club. But I gave you the real man. I don’t back away from a fight and I win.Collection: Romance
She’d learned to live in the present a long time ago, to enjoy every moment she had. Time was a luxury, something she knew she could run out of very quickly, so she made sure each minute counted for something.Collection: Romance
He had to be a GhostWalker. She was looking at a legitimate GhostWalker. The real deal.Collection: Romance
He wanted Shylah to see past his physical appearance to ‘him’. He needed her to care who he was.Collection: Romance
It stems from hundreds of years ago, a law handed down in our family generations ago. The Saldi family in Sicily murdered the Ferraro family, killing as many members, men women and children, as they could. The decree that we don’t all gathering one place was passed down by those surviving that massacre. It was a long time ago, just history really, but we still abide by that rule.Collection: Romance
First game I win, I get your panties. The second game I win, I make you scream.Collection: Romance
She looked down onto his face. So gorgeous. It wasn’t just his beautiful, very masculine features, it was the way he was inside. “I’m in love with you. There isn’t anything that you can tell me that is going to change that.Collection: Romance
His strength was enormous, and so was the burning need to kill this man. He’d felt this way on more than one occasion. The drive was an actual need, like breathing, consuming him, almost taking him out of his body so that the rage was a separate entity.Collection: Romance
I’m not rejecting you. Just the opposite. You mean something huge to me. Huge. I can’t think about much of anything else but keeping you alive.Collection: Romance
You don’t do violence, Francesca, not unless it’s self-defense or in defense of our family. I won’t have that on your soul. You’re going to be my wife. The mother of my children. You’re about love and softness. Not killing. Never that.Collection: Romance
You’re a miracle, woman.” Draden meant it.Collection: Romance
He wanted to believe in another life where he could have his woman for more than the short time it appeared they had left, but if he didn’t ever get that, he would celebrate every second with her now.Collection: Romance
There you go, getting all protective on me. You’re worried about me, aren’t you?” His voice practically purred at her, a sensual mixture of possession, desire and something else – affection. “Dio, bambino, I love that.Collection: Romance
He radiated calm, his energy peaceful, surrounding her in a cocoon of tranquility. He made her feel safe, wrapped up in their world together, even though she knew neither of them was.Collection: Romance
He glanced back at her over his shoulder, his incredible eyes moving over her face. Seeing her. Focusing on her. The way he looked at her made her heart begin to accelerate.Collection: Romance
They had tied their lives together in a way that meant she would never be alone. They belonged together, to each other, and had a bond for all the world to know.Collection: Romance
Unfortunately, I’m not the greatest catch. None of us are. We’re outcasts for a reason.Collection: Romance
His entire life, he hadn’t cared if he’d upset someone or made them angry. No one had mattered. He’d found a place inside himself where he was safe, where no one could get to him. But she could – she had.Collection: Romance
She’d never had a breakdown before. That had been scary, to cry without the ability to stop it. Crying on Draden should have been humiliating, but it had been comforting.Collection: Romance
Ania. If he took her and kept her, she would give them both peace. God knew he needed peace.Collection: Romance
Freeman flicked him a quick glance. It was one of those looks that seemed to burn a hole right through him. Barry shivered, not liking those eyes on him. They were intelligent, focused – almost too focused. They didn’t blink, and it felt like death looking at him.Collection: Romance
Peonies are beautiful perennials. A classic, really. Every garden should have them. They’re dependable, have a timeless, elegant beauty and will bloom with very little attention.” He was silent for a moment while she switched branches and he followed. “Like you.Collection: Romance
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 unprepared to deal with.Collection: Romance
Emma, I’ll never be easy. I won’t. I’m not going to pretend your life will be a bed of roses, but I can tell you that no man will ever need you more, or want you more, or love you more than I will.Collection: Romance
She was... salvation. Everything good. She lit up a room just as she lit up his life.Collection: Romance