Sommersgate House (Ghosts and Reincarnation #1) QUOTES

1 " Douglas ignored her look, determined to move to the next phase in his strategy and went on. “Julia, I intend to be your lover.” With Julia’s soft warmth pressed so close, he could smell her. Both the feel of her and her scent made his body begin to tighten in an intensely pleasant way so that, when he spoke, his voice deepened, became hungry, as he, again, made his intentions clear but this time, he made them clearer. “I intend to sleep in sheets that smell of tangerines and jasmine. I intend to have your naked body squirming under mine. I intend to touch you everywhere with my hands and my mouth. I intend to memorise the taste of you, to make you call my name while I’m moving inside you, to make you so excited you beg me to let you come… "

― Kristen Ashley , Sommersgate House (Ghosts and Reincarnation #1)

3 " Then you stay down here and I’ll sleep in your bed.”
His eyes went from half-shut to fully-open, regarding her sharply. “Julia, you don’t sleep in that bed until I’m in it with you. "

― Kristen Ashley , Sommersgate House (Ghosts and Reincarnation #1)

5 " It’s obvious you think this is incredibly amusing but allow me to educate you. Men do not like to be teased. "

― Kristen Ashley , Sommersgate House (Ghosts and Reincarnation #1)

7 " There had been very little in Douglas Ashton’s life that he ever wanted. Most of it he could obtain, the rest of it, a loving mother and father, his sister back from the dead, was unobtainable.
At that moment, he found himself wanting something.
And what he wanted was for Julia to lose herself with him.
He wanted this stubborn, tempestuous Julia Fairfax to disappear and an acquiescent, but still tempestuous, Julia Ashton to take her place. He wanted to brand her with his name and shackle her with his ring.
Did she not understand that was a good thing? "

― Kristen Ashley , Sommersgate House (Ghosts and Reincarnation #1)

9 " Feelings, emotions, love, desire, happiness, safety, beauty, laughter—everything that was Julia, it ripped through him with a stunning force and nearly brought him to his knees. Or, more to the point, it mended him, taking the jagged, long-unused shards of his heart and rending them together, complete, functioning and healthy, the scars simply fading away. He had not needed to put her back together. He had needed her to do it for him. "

― Kristen Ashley , Sommersgate House (Ghosts and Reincarnation #1)