J. Kenner

I'm going to make you come harder and longer than you ever have before, baby, and I'm going to feel every shudder, every ripple of that orgasm as it rips through you because I am going to be right here holding tight to you, buried deep inside you. And, Nikki, I'm not ever letting go.

I'd rather risk screwing up with you than not even try.

You humble me, Nikki. Don't you see that? It must be clear from my expression that I do not, because he goes on. "If I do all those things for you--soothe you, center you, give you strength--then that is worth more to me than every penny I have earned building Stark International.

Never, baby. Between us, the sun is never going down.

Do you know what passion is?__ blink, confused.__ost people think it only means desire. Arousal. Wild abandon. But that__ not all. The word derives from the Latin. It means suffering. Submission. Pain and pleasure, Nikki. Passion.

Being together came close to destroying both of us once already," he says. "But I don't fucking care. You are the memory that gets me through my days, and the fantasy that saves me in the night.

I am not "cured"--I know I never will be. I will always crave that pain to keep me centered. I will always be just a little astounded when I get through a crisis without putting a blade to my flesh.

I could entice you with words,_ he said. __omeday, I want to touch you only with my voice and tease you only with my words. I want to watch as you quiver with longing, as your body goes soft and slick. I want to watch the fire build inside you, and I want to make you explode before I even brush a finger over your skin.

Everyone should feel alive. Should smash up against passion and danger, against temptation and anticipation. You have to push the envelope sometimes,because otherwise how do you know what your limits really are?

I imagine you taste like honey,_ Tyler murmured. __nd when I slide my tongue between your legs, I__l lose myself in the sweetness of you. I want to watch your face as the orgasm builds inside you. I want to feel you tremble beneath me. And when you finally explode, I want to hold you in my arms and let my kisses pull you back together.

There are a lot of ways to pleasure a woman,_ he said, and his tone suggested we hadn__ even begun. __ard and raw, soft and sentimental. How can I know what she wants until I see how she reacts?

I__l give you what you want, Sloane,_ he said. __hat we both want. But think long and hard before you come to me. There are things that I like. Things that I want and expect from the woman in my bed. And I don__ play by anyone__ rules but my own.

I assumed he knew that your coach was abusing you. I realized in the limo that he didn't."For a moment, there is only silence. When Damien speaks, his words are ice cold. "He knew.

I don't want you to have to handle it. That's the horror of my past. But you...you're the reality of my present. You're the proof I survived. The prize in the cereal box.

__xcept for the fact that your scars mean you__e been hurting, I am one-hundred-percent cool with having them in the painting. Some models, especially the professional ones, it__ like painting air-brushed people. Give me something raw any day.

You have captured me utterly, and you hold my heart in your hands. Be gentle with it. It's more fragile than you might think.

Possess. Have. Hold. Enjoy. Control. Dominate. Pick your verb, Ms. Fairchild. I intend to explore so very many of them.