Amber Smith

“Did you talk to all your past employers this way?” he eventually asks.
“I would have if they were as rude as you.”
Both of his brows shoot up and I’m prepared for him to start shouting to his secret service and have me dragged off to the guillotines.
Instead he gives me a tight smile. “I’ll be paying your salary. That doesn’t mean I have to like you.”:
“And I’ll be earning that salary. That doesn’t mean I have to like you either.”
― Karina Halle, A Nordic King

“You were born on the longest night of the year.” His fingers again stroked down my back. Lower. “You were meant to be at my side from the very beginning”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Frost and Starlight

“Look at you, being all romantic.”
“I’m always romantic,” he says, kissing my neck. “Because it’s impossible to be anything but a lovestruck slave around you.”
― Karina Halle, Discretion

“His smile is infectious. But again, so was the plague.”
― Karina Halle, Smut