Adrienne Giordano > Quotes

“After slipping the condom on, he rolled on top of her, shoved her hair out of her face and held it while he got lost in those sea green eyes that, in a darkened room, shined bright.
He wanted her. And it wasn’t just the sex. He wanted the whole nutty package.”
― Adrienne Giordano, A Just Deception

“Peter heard the lock tumble. She must have turned it with her free hand, because the door opened and the inside light she’d left on washed over them.
Izzy threw her arms around his neck, pressed against him and slammed her tongue into his mouth. Demanding and hot. His breath caught and he couldn’t release it. Thank you, Jesus. He’d never known anything better than this kiss.”
― Adrienne Giordano, A Just Deception

“He’d peed on that tree so many times, he should have a reserved sign on it.”
― Adrienne Giordano, Boosted

“(Isabelle) “You can do whatever you’d like at my house.”
He raised his eyebrows and grinned.
“Within reason,” she added. “If I find you in my bed with a woman, you’re a dead man.”
He grinned bigger.
Her stomach knotted. “Did I say that?”
He continued to grin.
She had said it. Must be the fatigue. Three hours of sleep didn’t cut it.
He stepped closer. Oh, boy.
“Izzy, the only woman I want in that bed is you.”
― Adrienne Giordano, A Just Deception

“had back in the seventies”
― Adrienne Giordano, Dog Collar Crime

“saving her a second trip to her car. This would be life with an assistant. She couldn’t wait. A helper and a fellow creative to bounce ideas off of, to sketch with, to”
― Adrienne Giordano, The Detective

“And worse, Fin decided to plop his fuzzy butt just feet from the auction house. The scene of the crime.”
― Adrienne Giordano, Boosted

“like banking.”
― Adrienne Giordano, Dog Collar Crime

“Because that’s what parents did. They protected their children. No matter what.”
― Adrienne Giordano, Boosted

“Zac was about to get his butt handed to him—by his baby sister, no less—and he wasn’t going down alone.”
― Adrienne Giordano, The Prosecutor

“But they always came back to each other. And usually, that coming back involved an awkward joke, a moment of sarcasm. Self-deprecating humor. The mother of all reset buttons.”
― Adrienne Giordano, Boosted