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“She gives me a sharp look. “Warrek is a good guy. He’s sweet, kind, and devoted. All of these men are. Do you ever see anyone cheating on their woman? Not going to work? Standing around and drinking all day long and then demanding his woman make him a sandwich? These are good men. I just don’t want you to play him, that’s all.”
“I wouldn’t play him. I don’t think I’d even know how,” I protest.
“I know,” Gail says. She pats my arm. “But I think you jump in without thinking from time to time, and that’s why I wanted to say something. It’s clear he likes you and you like him. But I think that these guys have a hard time with flirtation. To them, they go straight from holding hands and right to making a home together. There’s no in-between with them. And it’s a small tribe. You’re gonna have to see his ass every day after this. Make sure that there’s no bad blood between you.”
Bad blood? “I wouldn’t do that to him. I like him.”
“All right then,” Gail says, satisfied. “Just don’t let your mouth make promises that your heart can’t cash.”
― Barbarian's Rescue
“I wouldn’t play him. I don’t think I’d even know how,” I protest.
“I know,” Gail says. She pats my arm. “But I think you jump in without thinking from time to time, and that’s why I wanted to say something. It’s clear he likes you and you like him. But I think that these guys have a hard time with flirtation. To them, they go straight from holding hands and right to making a home together. There’s no in-between with them. And it’s a small tribe. You’re gonna have to see his ass every day after this. Make sure that there’s no bad blood between you.”
Bad blood? “I wouldn’t do that to him. I like him.”
“All right then,” Gail says, satisfied. “Just don’t let your mouth make promises that your heart can’t cash.”
― Barbarian's Rescue
“Are you disappointed?”
Cullen glanced to her face as she drew the linens up, covering herself. “In what?”
“I am not as buxom, or big, or tall as little Maggie,”
she pointed out quietly.
He almost laughed, but then realized she was serious. Women were a strange breed, Cullen decided. The truth was he liked her body. He’d liked Maggie’s, too. They were both beautiful in their own ways. Evelinde’s was slim and graceful like a rosebud rising out of the earth. Maggie had been full and ripe like a rose in full bloom. Both were roses and both beautiful.”
― Devil of the Highlands
Cullen glanced to her face as she drew the linens up, covering herself. “In what?”
“I am not as buxom, or big, or tall as little Maggie,”
she pointed out quietly.
He almost laughed, but then realized she was serious. Women were a strange breed, Cullen decided. The truth was he liked her body. He’d liked Maggie’s, too. They were both beautiful in their own ways. Evelinde’s was slim and graceful like a rosebud rising out of the earth. Maggie had been full and ripe like a rose in full bloom. Both were roses and both beautiful.”
― Devil of the Highlands
“A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.”
― The Bookstore Sisters
― The Bookstore Sisters
“I am happy,” I tell her, and it is true. Other than the nagging worry about the Little Green Men returning, I’m incredibly happy. My translator’s gone, and I have…Aehako. Big, flirty Aehako who treats me like I’m the best thing that’s ever happened to him. Really, it’s the other way around. He’s the best thing that ever happened to me. I think even if I were offered a ride home back to earth tomorrow, I’d decline, just so I could stay with my big alien mate.
Maybe that makes me crazy. But what did I have back on earth? No one that cared about me, an entry-level job in finance, and a mountain of student debt. Here I have an entire tribe of people, and Aehako.”
― Barbarian Lover
Maybe that makes me crazy. But what did I have back on earth? No one that cared about me, an entry-level job in finance, and a mountain of student debt. Here I have an entire tribe of people, and Aehako.”
― Barbarian Lover
“Piece of advice number one: there is no such thing as leagues when it comes to dating.
There is only compatibility.
Would you say you are compatible with this guy?
Yes, I mean we’ve talked and we always seem to get along.
He gave a curt head-shake, That’s not compatibility.
You get along with the mailman, compatibility is connection emotional, intellectual, physical and sexual.
Got any of that with the object of your affection?”
― Foreplayer
There is only compatibility.
Would you say you are compatible with this guy?
Yes, I mean we’ve talked and we always seem to get along.
He gave a curt head-shake, That’s not compatibility.
You get along with the mailman, compatibility is connection emotional, intellectual, physical and sexual.
Got any of that with the object of your affection?”
― Foreplayer
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