sweet

I just want to see you come apart."I wanted to tell her that she was witnessing it now, and in all honesty she'd been watching it happen for weeks.

There's something I gotta tell you," he said in a confidential tone as he leaned toward her. His face was close to hers, too close. He was making her uncomfortable again, as he no doubt intended. That notion stiffened her spine. "What?" she all but snapped. "I had a major case of the hots for you when I was in high school. I still do.

It was easier when all we wanted to do was eat them and take their stuff,_ he grumbled.And it had been easier when he hadn__ cared if he made any of them cry.

Maybe I can stalk you again sometime._ __bsolutely.

She had always been comforted by confectionery

I'm supposed to carry you over the threshold, right?"I laugh. "If that's what you're doing, I must've slept through something important," I say dryly. He quirks one eyebrow and shoots me a cocky grin. "Oh trust me, I won't let you sleep through any of the good stuff.

Patch tipped my chin up. "If I could make this go away, I would. If I could stand in your place, I wouldn't hesitate. But I'm left with one choice, and that's to stand by your side through the end. I won't waver, Angel, I can promise you that.

I was terrified of what might have happened to you," I choked

I always thought that I was a good swimmer, you know? That in a sink or swim situation I would rise to the top. But the truth is I was drowning. I was sinking fast and you threw me a lifeline. I never expected to love you. But you saved my life. How could I not?

I turned to see his expression. When I saw that he was serious, I shot hum a dubious look. __leeping in between the toilet and the tub on a cold, hard tile floor with a vomiting idiot was one of your best nights? That__ sad, Trav.___o, sitting up with you when you__e sick and you falling asleep in my lap was one of my best night._ (_) __hanks, Trav. I won__ make you babysit me again.__e leaned against his pillow. __hatever. No one can hold your hair back like I can.

You are not showing her my baby pictures!_ He sounded horrified, which made me laugh. __ome on, Evan,_ I teased with a laughing smile, __ou were adorable.

I will live in thy heart, die in thy lap, and be buried in thyeyes__nd moreover, I will go with thee to thy uncle__.

Sometimes I think I spent forever waiting for you,' he says. 'My whole life, I've never had someone like you. Someone who doesn't have to be there, but is anyway. Someone who wants to just ... be with me because they want me. For me. Not because I'm your brother or your kid or anything, but because you choose me.

You just, barged in and flipped my entire world upside down,_ he says, voice heated. __ didn__ know what to do.

What the hell do I have to do to get your attention? Do I need to get up there?_ I throw an arm toward the stage. His eyes swell for just a second, in shock. He reaches forward to hold my hands, but he catches himself in time and instead folds them across his chest. __elieve me, you have my full attention.

My mom's coming home soon," I said. "We should go to your place."Patch ran a hand across the shadow of stubble along his jaw. "I have rules about who I take there." I was getting really tired of that answer. "If you showed me, you'd have to kill me?" I guessed, fighting the urge to feel irritated. "Once I'm inside, I can never leave?"Patch studied me a moment. Then he reached into his pocket, twisted a key off his key chain, and slipped it into the front pocket of my pajama top. "Once you've gone inside, you have to keep coming back.

How you feel about marrying me?" he asked in my ear.

She clenched her fist in his T-shirt, put her other arm around those too-broad, too-real shoulders. When he tried to pull away, she held on tight. Kami felt the surrender in his mind a moment before he laid his face in the curve of her neck. The whole world was so real it hurt.Kami whispered into Jared's hair, "I'm always on your side.