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You love me, ” he said. “That’s all I need to know.” “You always say the right thing, ” Savannah told him, her eyes so filled with love that he almost wept. “Sometimes it takes you awhile to get to it, but you always get there, and what you say is always worth waiting for.Suzanne Brockmann
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I’m going to carry you now, ” he told her, “so we can move even faster. I’m not asking you, I’m telling you. Any response from you is unnecessary and unwelcome.Suzanne Brockmann
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Savannah, I’ve been talking my ass off for more than an hour now, telling you shit no one’s ever heard anything about, hoping that I’ll say something, Jesus God, anything that will convince you to have sex with me.Suzanne Brockmann
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Do you think, ” she said, “instead of having sex, we could make love?”“ I’d love that, ” Ken whispered.Suzanne Brockmann
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If you want, I can carry you–” “I’m fine, ” she said shortly. “Let’s go.” He’d said that wrong. He should have said, “I want to carry you.Suzanne Brockmann
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So we have twenty-four hours to keep out of trouble, ’ he says to me. I slide a glance in his direction. Judging from the way he’s now grimacing at the sidewalk and the fact that I met him in a police station where he was being booked for stealing a car, I’m guessing that staying out of trouble is not his forte.Sarah Alderson
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Trust me, ’ he says with a touch of impatience.‘ Stop asking me to do that, ’ I say, equally as impatiently.Sarah Alderson
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I need a favour.’ I raise my eyebrows at him in disbelief. What makes him think I’m about to do him a favour? He’s a stranger. And he’s wearing handcuffs.Sarah Alderson
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. ‘Because off-duty cops walk around the city wearing sweatshirts advertising they’re cops all the time, never mind it’s a hundred degrees outside. And never mind you look like the youngest cop ever recruited in the history of policing.’ He tsks at me. ‘Have you never seen 21 Jump Street?Sarah Alderson
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You know, Savannah, if you cry, I won’t tell anyone, ’ Ken said quietly. ‘I promise.Suzanne Brockmann
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I wonder if your mother was frightened by Peter Pan before you were born?Charlotte Lamb
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This wasn't Weirdville, this was fricking Wonderland. Alice here was all grow up, but she was still chowing down on too much of that psychedelic mushroom.Suzanne Brockmann
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You are as ordinary as spring, ' he murmured. 'As powerless as sunlight.' He ran his fingertips down her neck. 'And when I touch you, I burn, ' he said, making her heart stop and a flare of wild panic light inside her. He was too close; he was getting to her.Charlotte Lamb