All Quotes By Tag: Romantic-adventure

“Mouth curving in a slow smile, he crouched and studied her appearance. “Hmm, you look too neat and composed. Boris won’t buy it.”She lifted her chin. “What am I supposed to look like?”“Like I’ve had my hands all over you,” he purred with a wicked grin. “I have a reputation to maintain, Lady Griffin.”She raised an eyebrow. “Are you trying to say you’re actually proud of this reputation?”“Let’s just say it’s well-deserved.”

“Listen up, Nic,” she said firmly, looking straight into his gray-blue eyes. “If you die on me out here, so help me I’ll hold seances and pester you. I won’t give you a moment’s peace in the hereafter,” she threatened in a fierce whisper. Gabrielle O’Hara, River of Dreams”

“What could I offer the local bad boy except my livelihood? Oh, I know. My body or my planes! Why didn’t I think of that? Would you have preferred that I offer him my body, Nic, because I sure as hell wasn’t going to sign over either of my planes!”

“She paused and saw him tense in expectation. He wouldn’t like to hear this, but better from her than one of the others. “You aren’t the only pilot I have in my service. And you aren’t the only person with a dark past, though the illegal things that you did, you were forced to do by the Core. But I will tell you what I’ve told the others. This is your last chance. You screw up with me and you get shipped up river. I don’t offer second chances—I offer last chances.”Nope, he didn’t like it. She saw the hand not holding the bottle of beer curl into a fist.Sin and Del, from Sunscapes Trilogy, Book 1: Last Chance”