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“What would you do if she wanted me?��

His hand clenched tight in Six’s shirt. “She can’t have you. Not tonight.��

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“She can’t have you.�� The words ripped free of him again, rough and raw. “Maybe not ever.”
― Kit Rocha, Beyond Pain

“Lex lets you off the hook way too easily, you know that?" "Of course I do." No laughter now. Dallas's expression was deadly serious. "Why do you think being a better man matters so damn much? The sex, that's good, but it's not the prize. Trust is the prize, and the fight's not about winning it or keeping it. It's about deserving it, and that's a fight a man's got to have with himself. Every fucking day.”
― kit rocha, Beyond Pain

“Bren pulled me close and chuckled in my ear. "Damn, kid. Are you in trouble." That was bad enough. His next comment was worse. "Don't worry, Aric. Celia and I don't have sex as much as we used to.”
― Cecy Robson, Sealed with a Curse

“I never called you foolish," Bren says softly. "Rae." His fingers move uncertainly on his thigh, twitching toward me, then back to curl into a fist on his leg. It's the first uncertain movement I can remember him making.”
― Intisar Khanani, The Theft of Sunlight