“‘You and your creepy research, Mr. Clark.’‘It's what I do, Ms. Summers.’”

“He stepped backward and nodded while giving me that smirk. ‘ Ahh, Ms. Summers the pleasure has been all mine.’I couldn’t help but smile. ‘ Oh, Mr. Clark, by the way, it’s Mrs., not Ms.’Putting two fingers to his lips, he winked and turned. ‘ I know,’ he called behind him, and then he was gone.”

“He was smirking the smirkiest smirk of all smirks to date. I laughed, even that smirk was hard to ignore. F**k, maybe I should call him Mr Smirk.”

“Sometimes it’s wise not to dwell on the incomprehensible, for if you do, you waste those precious moments of actually accepting it for what it is.”

“I know you feel it, Alexis. You want me between your legs just as badly as I want to be there.”

“Thankfully, sleep means you do not have to communicate with the conscious world and those who are in it.”

“I was speechless and utterly craving what he had just declared.”