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Mystery Man (Dream Man, #1) QUOTES

Mystery Man (Dream Man, #1) QUOTES

1 " This is the us you wanted us to be, Gwen. "

― Kristen Ashley , Mystery Man (Dream Man, #1)

2 " Women like clothes, they like shoes, they like flowers and they like people to look at them and think,‘God, she’s gorgeous.’ The more people who think that, the better it is. The one day in your life where you get all that rolled up into one is your wedding day. And it
comes with jewelry and presents and ends
with a vacation where it’s practically law that you have to wear fabulous underwear and have lots of sex. "

― Kristen Ashley , Mystery Man (Dream Man, #1)

3 " You're bossy, arrogant, intrusive, annoying... "
His minor grin amplified.
See! Totally unrepentant...
"Do I have anything going for me?"
"... you can be sweet, you're a cuddler, and you carried me out of a burning building..."
"I'm a cuddler?"
"You spoon."
His brows went up. "That's important enough to be on your list?"
"Uh... yeah."
[He's grinning] "Fuckin' ridiculous what women think is important. "

― Kristen Ashley , Mystery Man (Dream Man, #1)

4 " Don't call me baby when you're pissed, Sweet Pea."
"Don't call me Sweet Pea at all, baby "

― Kristen Ashley , Mystery Man (Dream Man, #1)

5 " He started to pull away again but she called his name so he stopped.
“Yeah?”
“Before you go, give me the dimples,” she demanded.
That thing in his throat prickled and Hawk dipped his head and kissed the indentation at the base of his wife’s throat. Then he lifted his head and smiled at her.
Her hand came to his face and he felt the pad of her thumb in one of his dimples.
Then her eyes moved from her thumb to his and she smiled back.
  "

― Kristen Ashley , Mystery Man (Dream Man, #1)

6 " You live in your head too much, you curl up and shut shit out and spend so much time doing it, you forget to live your life. You can’t live your life in your head. That isn’t living. "

― Kristen Ashley , Mystery Man (Dream Man, #1)

7 " Our relationship wasn’t easy. It wasn’t mellow. It wasn’t comfortable and sedate. He was too bossy and I was too much of a smartass. We bantered and sometimes we fought. But I’d learned I was completely unable to endure Hawk being mad at me and then I’d noticed that Hawk felt the same. No grudges were ever held. We created sparks but those sparks never caught the kind of fire that could do damage. Instead, we got over it and moved on. "

― Kristen Ashley , Mystery Man (Dream Man, #1)

8 " You're cute in the morning," he told me.

"I am?" I asked.

"Cute and sweet."

"Mm," I mumbled, glad he thought that but I'd always been a morning person. I was a night person too. I was an anytime person when I wasn't stressy and in a bad mood.

One of his hands left my back and I watched his eyes get heated and intense as they studied my face.

Then he did something beautiful, something amazing, something that, if I'd had any doubts as to my certainty, they would have disintegrated.

He tenderly slid the backs of his knuckles against the skin of my cheek while he muttered, "A year and a half. Totally fuckin' missed out. "

― Kristen Ashley , Mystery Man (Dream Man, #1)

9 " I know you're a step down from superhero, Hawk, but seriously?"
He grinned. "You think I'm a step down from superhero? "

― Kristen Ashley , Mystery Man (Dream Man, #1)

10 " Ohmigod! This place is so cool!” This was Tracy, who was sashaying into the warehouse looking around like she just hit the candy garden with chocolate stream at Willy Wonka’s. Her eyes caught site of Elvira who was in the kitchen. “Hey girl! What’s up?”
“Job satisfaction, beanpole, what’s up with you,” Elvira replied on a huge smile thus taking the sting out of her nickname for Tracy (I hoped).
If Cam was yin to Tracy’s yang, Elvira was yang to all of our yins. "

― Kristen Ashley , Mystery Man (Dream Man, #1)

11 " You're in deep with me, aren't you, baby?"
I whispered my question just to confirm.
"Drowning." he whispered back. "

― Kristen Ashley , Mystery Man (Dream Man, #1)

12 " Are you here to freak me out in any other way?"
"Nope."
"This would include asking me for a date," I warned.
"Babe, don't date," he replied.
"You don't?"
"Do tequila shots followed by 5 hours of sex count as a date? he asked.
"Um... no," I answered.
"Then I don't date."
I smiled at him.
Then, stupidly, I asked. "You can have sex for 5 hours?"
He smiled at me.
Yikes.
Moving on. "

― Kristen Ashley , Mystery Man (Dream Man, #1)

13 " I felt a warm hand on the skin of my lower back.”
I twisted my neck, looked up and there he was.
I held my breath and he asked, “You comin’ or what?”
That was it. That was his pickup line. “You comin’ or what?”
I went. "

― Kristen Ashley , Mystery Man (Dream Man, #1)

14 " About five seconds after I left you today, things between you and
me, they changed,” he informed me in a quiet voice.
I felt my brows draw together as my mind processed the fact that
this was not good.
“Changed?” I asked. “How?”
“You got attitude, the kind I like. So I decided I’m gonna ride that
attitude wave of yours, see how things work out. "

― Kristen Ashley , Mystery Man (Dream Man, #1)

15 " The hot-o-meter started ringing like crazy as hot guys descended on me, my car and Tack from two directions.

Boy was I glad I curled my hair. "

― Kristen Ashley , Mystery Man (Dream Man, #1)

16 " No wonder. Puerto Rican, Italian and Cuban –
the perfect ingredients for a hot, bossy, badass cocktail. "

― Kristen Ashley , Mystery Man (Dream Man, #1)

17 " Okay,” I started, “perhaps at this juncture we should discuss our
relationship.”
“Clue in again, Gwen, the reason our relationship is the way it is, is
so I don’t ever have to waste my fuckin’ time doin’ stupid-ass shit
like discussing it.”
Oh boy. Now I was getting really angry. "

― Kristen Ashley , Mystery Man (Dream Man, #1)

18 " Woulda made a deal with the devil to get my wife and daughter back." He was still whispering and my breath stilled.
"Don't have that chance so nothin' I can do about that. But I darkened your door, baby, and you lit up my life again so I'm not lettin' that go. "

― Kristen Ashley , Mystery Man (Dream Man, #1)

19 " He leaned deeper toward me and said softly, "I'm gonna tell you what I make of this. What I make of it, Gwendolyn, is if my woman had a sister who I knew was in some serious shit, she would not be havin' a chat with Kane Allen, she would not be sleepin' alone and therefore she would not ever have to worry about whether she needs a baseball bat of crowbar because she'd be in bed beside me." Mitch Lawson "

― Kristen Ashley , Mystery Man (Dream Man, #1)

20 " Don’t forget the chocolate fudge frosting!”
“Gotcha,” Dad shouted back.
“Good to know, even after a family drama, Gwen’s still hard at work on that great ass,” Gus noted. "

― Kristen Ashley , Mystery Man (Dream Man, #1)