Aileen

“He hugged her hard. "I love you. My life is so much better with you in it than out of it.”
― Cindy Gerard, To the Brink

“Because they're probably long gone. Are you hurt?" Gabe asked with enough urgency that she realized he must have felt shiver in delayed reaction to the hole in the door.
"No. No, I'm okay. What a about you? Are you hurt?"
"Only if you count the fact that you damned near ripped off my plumbing groping around for my phone."
She made a sound of exasperation. "Now? You pick now to become a comedian?"
"It's all about timing," he whispered back.”
― Cindy Gerard, Show No Mercy

“Bastards have pissed me off," Reed snarled, out of breath, as he backed into the open armory door. "They hit me in the face."

Lang grabbed Reed's jaw, turned his face toward him. "It's just a scratch."

It's just my fucking face," Reed sputtered. "It needs to look good on a book jacket when I write my memoirs someday.”
― Cindy Gerard, Into the Dark

“When he reached her, he touched a hand to her face. Smiled. "Important. That's one word. Everything. That's another. Loved," he said, adding the most important word of all. "God, Darcy, you are so loved.”
― Cindy Gerard, To the Brink