“This is love. Finally, he understood. This was what made sane men into fools.”
― Marie Force, quote from Maid for Love
“You hear about people waiting too long to retire, then one of ’em gets sick. . .”
― Marie Force, quote from Maid for Love
“The whole town is talking about you sleeping with her. I won’t have it.” Mac laughed,”
― Marie Force, quote from Maid for Love
“And I’m not just saying that”
― Marie Force, quote from Maid for Love
“bike. “Got the old girl out of”
― Marie Force, quote from Maid for Love
“said softly, framing his son’s face”
― Marie Force, quote from Maid for Love
“He’s bossy and pushy and—” “Totally smitten,”
― Marie Force, quote from Maid for Love
“He’d fallen in love with a woman”
― Marie Force, quote from Maid for Love
Marie Force
Born place: in The United States
Born date June 10, 1966
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“You don’t have to have had something to want it or need it but when you have something you liked… very much… and it is taken away, and you want it back, it can become a hunger.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from The Golden Dynasty
“We don't call them inmates,' Molly said, quoting one of the psychiatrists.'We call them patients.”
― Dean Koontz, quote from The Taking
“In half a century of challenge and learning and trial-and-error, each of us had struggled from hard times to a present lovely beyond our dreams.”
― Richard Bach, quote from One
“Hold onto the string, love, until the current shifts and we can be together again.”
― Amy A. Bartol, quote from Indebted
“I feel him beside me, hear the even sound of his breathing, smell the delicious saltiness of his skin.
I have missed him.
I move to face him, and that’s when the pain reminds me that I’ve recently been stabbed. I bury my face in the pillow, but it doesn’t quite muffle my yelp.
“Emma?” Galen says groggily. I feel his hand in my hair, stroking the length of it. “Don’t move, angelfish. Stay on your stomach. I’ll go tell Rachel you’re ready for more pain medicine.”
Immediately I disobey and turn my face up to him. He shakes his head. “I’ve recently learned where your stubbornness comes from.”
I grimace/smile. “My mom?”
“Worse. King Antonis. The resemblance is uncanny.” He leans down and presses his lips to mine and all too quickly springs back up. “Now, be a good little deviant and stay put while I go get more pain meds.”
“Galen,” I say.
“Hmmm?”
“How bad am I hurt?”
He caresses the outline of my cheek. His touch could disintegrate me. “Hurt at all is bad enough for me.”
“Yeah, but you’ve always been a baby about this stuff.” I grin at his faux offense.
“Your mother says it’s only a flesh wound. She’s been treating it.”
“Mom is here?”
“She’s downstairs. Uh…You should know that Grom is here, too.”
Grom left the tribunal and headed for land? Did that mean it all ended badly? Well, even worse than my getting impaled? An urgent need to know everything about everything shimmies through me. “Whoa. Sit. Talk. Now.”
He laughs. “I will, I promise. But I want to make you comfortable first.”
“Well, then, you need to come over here and switch places with the bed.” A blush fills my cheeks, but I don’t care. I need him. All of him. It feels like forever since we’ve talked like this, just me and him. But talking usually doesn’t last long. Lips were made for other things, too. And Galen is especially good at the other things.
He walks back and squats by the bed. “You have no idea how tempting that is.” It seems like the violet of his eyes gets darker. It’s the color they get when he has to pull away from me, when we’re about to violate a bunch of Syrena laws if we don’t stop. “But you’re not well enough to…” He runs a hand through his hair. “I’ll go get Rachel. Then we can talk.”
I’m a little surprised that his argument didn’t begin with “But the law…” That is what has stopped us in the past. Now the only thing that appears to be stopping us is my stabby condition.
What’s changed?
And why am I not excited about it? I used to get so frustrated when he would pull away. But a small part of me loved that about him, his respect for the law and for the tradition of his people. His respect for me. Respect is a hard thing to come by when picking from among human boys. Is that respect gone?
And is it my fault?”
― Anna Banks, quote from Of Triton
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