To persevere with the will to understand in the face of obstacles is the heroism of consciousness.

When your sense of self and happiness comes from within and isn't a roller coaster ride dependent on others or circumstances, you approach life differently. You make better choices. You draw to you the people and situations that matter. The others, they fall away.

Are we going to be stupid?_ she whispered.__efine stupid.___nything that involves either one of us exposing our favorite body parts._ Or their hearts__ want to hear about your favorite body part,_ he said. __n great detail.

Look,_ she said, __pparently you bring out my inner slut. I__ not going to thank you for that.__yatt smiled that sexy smile of his. __ could make you.__he pointed a finger at his nose. And then lowered it so it was pointed at another part of his anatomy entirely. __on__ even think about it.___h, I won__,_ he said silkily. __ut you will.__nd she knew he was right.

I know I'm the one who put limits on this... this thing," she said, and bit her lower lip, suddenly nervous. "But I'm pretty sure we're not quite done with each other." He looked at her for what felt like a long time. "You want another night." Still unable to take her eyes off his mouth, she didn't muzzle herself. "I want as long as it takes." He cupped her jaw, lifting her head up so that she was looking into his eyes again. "Don't make promises you can't keep." "What makes you think I can't keep it?" "Because you seem to like things one night at a time," he said in that low, sexy voice. "But no way is one more night going to be enough.

He was just drifting off when he heard her soft whisper. "Cooper?" "Still here." Maybe she'd changed her mind about the sheet. The thought made his body twitch. Yeah, she was going to toss that damn thing aside and roll toward him. She'd wrap that hot little bod tight to his, and he'd --- "Thank you." Breanne said very quietly. He blinked. "Thank you? He slid his hand down to cup himself. Still hard. Nope, he hadn't missed anything...