“If you want, I can carry you—” “I’m fine,” she said shortly. “Let’s go.”He’d said that wrong. He should have said, “I want to carry you.”

“Amy sat back and grinned. “You just smiled.” That was definitely something else she could get used to.Of course, he frowned immediately. “I smile.”

“We do not remember days, Shemei, we remember moments, and the richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.”

“I guess the answer would be yes.””Got to love that word.” He kissed her so sweetly then, it brought tears to her eyes. “Got it in you to say it again?”And then he did the unthinkable. He went down on one knee.”

“Do you think,” she said, “instead of having sex, we could make love?”“I’d love that,” Ken whispered.”

“He understood that she needed some time to get used to “them.” He didn’t. He knew exactly what was happening, and he didn’t need another week, another month, another year, to get things in perspective.He loved her. It was that plain. That simple.”

“The insanity of love, and that’s why you’re trying to drive away with the park brake on.”

“Would you believe I was in the neighborhood?”“No.”“Well, how about that I needed to see you.”“Why? Did one of my neighbors call and say my cat’s been stalking their bunny?”One corner of his mouth went up. “You know, that sounds like a euphemism. A kind of salacious one”“Ooh, big words for Mr. Average Joe street cop,” she said, knowing she sounded bitchy but unable to help it. “Can you take out the angry eyes, Mrs. Potato Head, and just let me talk to you?”

“I don’t think sleeping with you is going to solve anything,” she said, stopping at the guest bedroom door.”I don’t really care what you think.”

“She’d kicked Klein’s ass and still had enough moxie to tag him, and enough physical strength to get herself out of a window ten feet up on the wall.He really should marry her.”

“Then his beautiful lips touched hers. A fluttering of wings, a cry of angels, a single beat of two hearts.”

“Apparently having your girlfriend get shot in the head and Life Flighted away takes its toll on a guy. Imagine that? I told him it was no biggie, but he’s been kind of edgy about it.”

“The man in 4B wondered if he could have your autograph. He told me his daughter is a huge fan.”Fan? What the hell? Dylan lifted himself up and looked over the back of his seat. Since when did covert operators have fans?”

“Savannah, I’ve been talking my ass off for more than an hour now, telling you shit no one’s ever heard anything about, hoping that I’ll say something, Jesus God, anything that will convince you to have sex with me.”

“Jake became excruciatingly aware of her, there, right behind him. The small grunts and groans as she placed each foot carefully on the slick ground reverberated in his gut. He wanted to turn around and tell her to shut the hell up.She sounded as though she was having sex.Good sex.”