Maris Black > Quotes

“Kage— the man I’d only hours ago claimed as my soulmate, the man I’d changed everything for, the man I felt like I would die without seeing for eleven days— was walking out of my life. And all I could do was lie there in my parents’ backyard, with my pants around my knees and my heart in my throat, and cry myself dry.”
― Maris Black, Kage

“Yeah, it’s true. I’ve got a boyfriend. Outside of the octagon, outside of this business, he’s my world. Nobody even comes close.”
― Maris Black, Kage Unmasked

“Call me crazy, but I’d like to feel special to someone for a change. I need to know there’s someone out there who even gives a shit if I wake up in the morning, or if I even live and breathe at all.”
― Maris Black, Pinned

“All of these guys have got someone to go home to after the fight. They’ve got their baby, I’ve got mine: Jamie Atwood. That’s who I love. He’s the one I go home to at night, and who patches me up after I get beaten down.”
― Maris Black, Kage Unmasked

“Kage glanced back at him once, saw him move, and then strutted right over to the edge of the cage where I was sitting. As he passed by me, he tapped his fist against his chest once, right over his heart, then looked directly into my eyes just long enough to give me a secret wink that sent shivers down my spine.”
― Maris Black, Kage

“No one else has to live my life but me, and I'm gonna do it my way.”
― Maris Black, Initiation

“After the first fighter, who remained nameless and was referred to only as the challenger, entered the octagon, Kage appeared at the door. My breath caught in my chest when I saw him. That’s my guy, I thought. My lover. He stalked intimidatingly into the ring wearing nothing but a pair of red trunks, his hair pulled into that cute little queue atop his head. But that was where the cute ended. This Michael Kage looked alarmingly unlike the guy I was falling for.”
― Maris Black, Kage

“They were your words, not mine. You said ‘I’d rather imagine myself with some rich guy…’” “Hmmm. I did, didn’t I?” His lips stretched into a crooked smile, and he glanced away. “Guess you’ve spoiled me.”
― Maris Black, Kage Unmasked

“He glanced absently down at the front of the shirt as he attempted to smooth out the wrinkles, but then he caught sight of the slogan: Skilled in Every Position. He cocked an eyebrow at me. “You trying to tell me something?” My face burned red. “It’s a basketball thing.”
― Maris Black, Kage Unmasked

“What are you doing?” I growled, sounding more amused than the angry I was going for. “Trying to keep you here,” he said earnestly, locking his eyes on mine. “You can stay in my bedroom, and we’ll just lock the door and have mad sex twenty-four-seven.”
― Maris Black, Kage Unmasked

“three-bedroom condo he and I shared with Trey. Braden had the master suite with his own bathroom, while Trey and I fought over the one in the hall. Not a bad deal, considering Braden’s dad owned the condo and only charged Trey and me a hundred dollars each, plus our share of the utilities, food and expenses. My parents would”
― Maris Black, Kage

“Then Aldo was standing beside me, pulling something from inside his jacket, and handing me a sealed envelope with my name scrawled across the front in a messy hand. Did Kage write this? After all we’d done, I still didn’t know what his handwriting looked like. I tore open the very end, careful not to damage the writing. Inside was a sheet of notebook paper with one sentence written on it. “That ass is mine.”   With”
― Maris Black, Kage

“That thing I liked to call a brain had already flipped around the Out to Lunch sign.”
― Maris Black, Kage Unmasked

“There better not be,” he growled. “Do you feel me? Feel how hard I am inside you? This is what you do to me.” Kage”
― Maris Black, Kage

“I'm sure you do know how to pick guys back on the farm, but this is a whole different world. You can't just grunt and bend some guy over your tractor.”
― Maris Black, Pinned

“I froze when I caught sight of a young fighter standing in the center of a group of people. Two men in suits hovered close to him, flanking him like guardians, effectively and wordlessly establishing themselves as part of his entourage. A couple of women with press passes and cameras slung around their necks gazed at the fighter with a kind of rapture as he talked, and I couldn’t blame them. The”
― Maris Black, Kage

“This is just as much of a surprise to me as it is to you. More in fact, because you got the call first. I’m finding out from you. How the heck did they get my name?” “I was told you had been recruited at the MMA event you attended several weeks ago. You must have talked to someone or done something, Jamie. They requested you specifically.” My head was spinning. Immediately, my memory was assaulted by the image of Michael Kage winking at me as he took off behind his goons to catch a plane. Catch you on the flip side. And I’d bet money that plane was headed to Las Vegas. “Wow.”
― Maris Black, Kage

“He started talking, and what he said changed all of our lives forever. “Mommy,” he mumbled, and Dr. Tanner and I both started.”
― Maris Black, Kage Unmasked

“For real, though. I would love to know what goes down in your bedroom, cause you have done turnt that boy over to the dark side.” - Steve”
― Maris Black, Kage Unleashed

“Getting struck by lightning changes your electrical makeup, so that every time you’re struck, you’re just that much more likely to be struck again.”
― Maris Black, Kage Unleashed

“Fuck,” he growled and ripped the elastic band out of his hair and threw it on the gazebo floor. “I don’t know what I have to do for you. I gave you a job, flew you out to Vegas, gave you the best home I could, fed you, trained you, fucked you, fought for you… and still you won’t have me.” His”
― Maris Black, Kage

“He climbed onto the bottom of my bed and crawled up toward me, sending my heartbeat skittering out of control. Then he climbed roughly on top of me and covered my face with his chest. “Does that smell right? Huh? Do I smell like myself?” Knowing from our sparring that I couldn’t handle being tickled on my sides, Kage went straight in for the kill. He tickled like he fought… one hundred percent invested. “I”
― Maris Black, Kage

“I’d gone from unapologetically commit-o-phobic to rom-com heroine in a few months”
― Maris Black, Kage Unleashed

“There was this cheap motel on the outskirts of town called the Tick-Tock Inn, with green-and-yellow vinyl curtains and beds that smelled like mothballs and ass.”
― Maris Black, Kage Unleashed

“Can I be your daddy now?” he asked, resting his hand on the wall behind my head and leaning in.”
― Maris Black, Kage Unmasked

“In other words, this Kage guy must have been made of 100% testosterone, because he had succeeded in making me blush like a schoolgirl. “Oh,”
― Maris Black, Kage

“Beck, this is not a good idea, hon. Oh my God, that is one hot little piece of disaster right there. Walk away while you still can, Beck. Oh sh*t. It's already too late, isn't it?”
― Maris Black, Pinned

“enthusiasm delights me, makes me laugh. “Yes, it’s an antebellum”
― Maris Black, Owning Corey

“I don’t give a fuck. I can touch his face if I want. Fuck the cameras. Fuck my uncle, fuck the public... Self-revulsion”
― Maris Black, Kage

“bent him forward and squeezed his ass cheeks hard, pulled them apart, admired the way his hole stretched around the thickness of my cock. “Oh, yeah, that’s so fucking hot. Do you like me inside of you, Jamie? Is this where you want me?” “Yes,” he breathed. “Bounce”
― Maris Black, Kage Unleashed