Anne

“Words.” His tone sharpened. “I shared my house, my bed, and my blood with you, as well as offered you a place in my life forever. What are words compared to that?”

I sighed, my anger dissipating as quickly as his flames had. “Oh, Vlad, if you believed that, you would’ve told me what I wanted to hear to just appease me. You didn’t, which proves saying ‘I love you’ means more to you than everything else.”
― Jeaniene Frost, Twice Tempted

“How often must I tell you that you mean more to me than vengeance? I can live without defeating my enemies, but I cannot live without you.”
― Jeaniene Frost, Twice Tempted

“Do you know what happened the last time I loved someone?”

Growled against my skin with such tempered violence that my shiver turned into a shudder. I nodded.

“No you don’t.” Another lethal growl. “You only know how she died. Let me tell you how she lived— in fear. My actions horrified her, as they horrify you. My enemies exploited her, as they exploit you, so it was more than an advancing army that made her throw herself from our roof. It was me.”
― Jeaniene Frost, Twice Tempted

“she’d be in West’s bed right now. Doing stuff. Stuff that flamed her face again when thinking about what stuff they could’ve been doing.”
― Tracey Alvarez, In Too Deep