“She touched something deep in his soul. He didn't believe in love at first sight, but the thought of hurting her made his chest ache.”

“Katie purred in pleasure as she licked the beating vein in Jared’s neck.”

“I’m waiting with baited breath to hear that silver tongue of yours.”

“He dropped his pants and went at it looking like Winnie-the-Pooh in his red polo shirt.”

“But once in a great while he remembered that he had felt pain, a terrible ache in his heart, and he swore he would never let himself feel love for a human again.”

“Of Human Bondage?"Will said quickly, moving just out of sight for a moment and forcing Charlie to move to the edge of the dining area to see him. He tossed one arch look over his shoulder as he reached up to grab that book, and even knowing it was an act, Charlie felt himself tensing. His eyes fell on the leather cuff at Will's wrist, as they were probably meant to."Kinky."Charlie's throat locked. "I'm not...""Into Bette Davis? I know, a lot of people find her scary at first, but after awhile you really start to get into her."The completely reasonable tone was at odds with the wicked light in the kid's eyes, the way his lips were curved up, how he held his breath when Charlie blinked and frowned, replaying the insane words until they made sense. Until he remembered that Bette Davis was in the film version of that novel, until he could finally take his gaze off that wide leather band.His face was burning."Smartass," he muttered, completely mystified when being called a smartass made Will hop in place, since Will had already made it clear that he had a brain under all that hair and glitter.”

“He likes those first moments, the first touch of naked skin against naked skin, of pressing into each other, his cock growing hard against Danny's. Each time it is like discovering that he's been starving in some way, a hunger or thirst in him that he's been only half aware of. Holding Danny tight, it's like finding something that he didn't know was lost. Something worth more than anything else in the world. Something he would have perished without.”