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Do you remember the first time we made love?" He touched his lips to hers as he said it. "We rode up in the elevator like this and couldn't keep our hands off each other, couldn't get to each other quick enough. I was mad for you. I wanted you more than I wanted to keep breathing. I still do." He deepened the kiss as the elevator doors opened. "It's never going to change.J.D. Robb
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What a woman you are, ” he murmured, and she heard the emotion in it, theway the Irish thickened just a bit in his voice. And saw it in those vivid eyes when he drew back. “That you would think of this. That you would do this.” He shook his head, kissed her. Like the breath, long and quiet.“ I can’t thank you enough. There isn’t enough thanks. I can’t say what this means to me, even to you. I don’t have the words for it.” He took her hands, . You stagger me.” He framed her face now, touched his lips to her brow. “You’re the beat of my heart, the breath in my body, the light in my soul. .J.D. Robb
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Have I missed a national holiday? There must be celebrations in the streets for you to be home at this hour of the day."" I'm calling it Summerset Goes Mute Day. The city's gone mad with joy.J.D. Robb
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I'm going to see if Morris has a spare spine lying around you can borrow if you're scared to speak to that high-heeled, smug-ass bitch, Peabody.J.D. Robb
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You're almost as good as Peabody."He stopped at the door, grabbed her up in a steaming kiss. "You can't get that from Peabody.""I could if I wanted." But it made her grin as he uncoded the locks. "But I like you better for sex.J.D. Robb
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Why do you always have to put you and McNab and sex in my head? It brings pain no blocker can cure.J.D. Robb
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Lord, Give me the strength not to bitch slap this woman.J.D. Robb
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Statues are too much like dolls, and dolls are creepy. You keep expecting them to blink. And the ones that smile, like this?" Eve kept her lips tight together and she curved them up. "You know they've got teeth in there. Big, sharp, shiny teeth." I didn't. But now I've got to worry about it.J.D. Robb
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I got you a present."" Did you?"" It's a book of poetry--romancy stuff. I thought, 'How schmaltzy is that, ' so it seemed like the thing. Then I screwed up and left it in my desk at workJ.D. Robb
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Far be in from me to dictate how you should assuage your guilt. Do you have a lot of it?" She bit his good shoulder. "You're about to find out." She toppled them both off the bench and onto the mat. "Well, ouch. I take it guilt doesn't bring out your gentler side.J.D. Robb