J.L. Sheppard

Did you ever think she was your mate?_ Lucas asked unable to help himself.Clyde tensed, seemingly caught off-guard by the question. __ knew she wasn__ mine,_ he said then exhaled. __ngels don__ mate, remember?___hen why did you make it so hard for her?___or her or for you?___or her. I couldn__ care less how hard you made it for me.___ecause I love her,_ Clyde responded simply. Lucas_ jaw clenched then he exhaled, acknowledging that hearing another man admit he loved Jenna would never get easier.__ot the way you do, but I love her. I wanted what was best for her. I thought you weren__ it,_ Clyde added then turned to walk away. He paused and spun back around. __ne more thing. If you ever hurt her, I__l kill you.__ucas let the fire in his heart fill his eyes. He would never hurt Jenna; they both knew it. __ know. That__ one of the reasons I haven__ killed you myself.

She smiled, content in knowing no one had ever loved her as much as Lucas, and now she knew why. Because no one could love her more, or better, than the demon king.

If you__e mad that I kissed you, I won__ apologize for that.___o, I__ mad you stopped._ Her face flushed. __ meant,_ she tried to rephrase, ____ mad you left the way you did.

Oh God, he thought. ____ sorry, I thought I heard you say to come in.___ did.___ut you__e only wearing a towel.___hat is it with you guys and towels? It__ not like I__ naked.

If you love her as much as you claim you do, why can__ you let her be happy? She__ made her choice,_ Lucas asked.__t__ because I love her that I__ trying to protect her from you. I could give her a better life in the heavens, away from danger,_ Clyde fired back.Lucas chuckled, further maddening Clyde. __aybe you could give her a better life, but you don__ love her. You know nothing of love, angel. If she chose you, I__ let her go because I love her. Above my needs come hers. That__ love.

He would never forget her. The distance he forced had done nothing to soothe his aching soul. It had done nothing to diminish that she was his. He tried to deny it at first, thinking it nothing more than a cosmic mistake, but after a month without a glimpse of her, there was no question.She belonged to him.

When we get there, don__ go in huffing and puffing like the big bad wolf.

He hadn__ been able to help himself, couldn__ have stopped himself from kissing her even if he__ tried. Fighting with her was a million times better than dreaming, and the fight had conjured his soul to act, to kiss her. And that kiss was nothing like anything he had ever experienced before.He knew if he would die then, he__ die a happy man because it meant he__ savor her forever, relish her passion among his. She__ tasted so sweet, like the sweetest fruit or the sweetest dessert. Her lips were heaven on his, his heaven on Earth.

I will carry you kicking and screaming like a child then spank you. We can do this my way or yours.

I love you, Jocelyn, and nothing, not even death, will ever keep me away from you.

I__ chase you anyway. I__l chase you forever.

Sleep now, baby. I__l be here when you wake.

I would love to see her set you on fire.

Her heart and soul had already spoken. They wouldn__ let Lucas go.

I__l never turn her away, Clyde. She__ my mate. I__l protect her till my dying breath. I__l even swallow my pride and ask a favor as momentous as the one I just asked of a man who has done nothing but try to drive a wedge between her and myself.

Destiny is as it is. Nothing can change it. Accept it before it ruins you.

I refuse to live in a constant fighting match, Landon. It will not do!' 'And I__e tried living without you, and it just won__ do!

And the more he gazed at her, the more he felt a twinge of something he couldn__ quite describe, an unknown surge that bubbled inside him from the first moment he__ caught sight of her, and it wouldn__ release him.