Lover Avenged (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #7) QUOTES

161 " The corner of her mouth twitched up. “This is totally inappropriate, but considering how male you are, without it—”
“I’d be able to make love to you,” he said quietly. “That’s what I’d be like.”
Her eyes shot to his, all holy-shit-did-he-just-say-that?
Rehv brushed a hand over his mohawk. “I’m not going to apologize for the fact that I’m feeling you, but I won’t disrespect you by trying to do anything about it either. You want some coffee? It’s already made.”
“Ah…sure.” Like she was hoping it would clear her head. “Listen…”
He paused in the midst of standing up. “Yeah?”
“I…ah…”
When she didn’t continue, he shrugged. “Just let me bring you coffee. I want to wait on you. Makes me happy.”

-Ehlena & Rehvenge "

― J.R. Ward , Lover Avenged (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #7)

162 " people didn’t have to be dead to be out of your life. "

― J.R. Ward , Lover Avenged (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #7)

163 " You’re going to let me kiss you,” he said.
It wasn’t a question, but she nodded anyway, and he closed the distance between their mouths.
His lips were soft and his kiss softer. And he pulled back too fast, in her opinion. Way too fast.
“If you want more,” he said in a low, husky voice, “I want to give it to you.”

-Rehv & Ehlena "

― J.R. Ward , Lover Avenged (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #7)

164 " His amethyst eyes dropped to her lips. “You want to know what I get out of it?”
Man, that voice of his was pure sex.
“Yes,” she breathed.
“I get to see you like you are now.”
“What…am I like?”
He brushed a finger down her cheek. “You’re flushed.”
His touch went over to her lips. “Your mouth is open because you’re thinking about me kissing you again.”
He went lower with that soft stroke, going down over her throat. “Your heart is pumping. I can see it in your vein here.”
He stopped between her breasts, his own mouth falling open and his fangs elongating. “If I keep on going, I think I’d find your nipples are hard, and I bet there are other signs you’re ready for me.” He leaned into her ear and whispered, “Are you ready for me, Ehlena?”
Holy. Shit.

-Rehv & Ehlena "

― J.R. Ward , Lover Avenged (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #7)

165 " You have a bed in this place,” she said.
“And I would kill to take you there.”
She was the one who stood up and put out her hand for him to take. “Let’s go.”

-Ehlena & Rehv "

― J.R. Ward , Lover Avenged (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #7)

166 " So you must have seen the article on them today.”
“Not yet, but I was just about to take a break. Gotta have my Dilbert fix.”
“Is that the one about the office? I was a Calvin and Hobbes fan for years. Hated to see that stop and haven’t really gotten into any of the new ones. Guess I’m behind the times.”
“You like what you like. Nothing wrong with that.”
“That’s what my wife says.” De la Cruz’s eyes drifted around again. “So, a couple people said both of them came into this club last night.”
“Calvin and Hobbes? One was a kid and the other a tiger. Neither would have gotten past my bouncers.”

-De La Cruz & Xhex "

― J.R. Ward , Lover Avenged (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #7)

167 " —Bien, entonces déjeme tomarle la tensión en el otro brazo. Y voy a tener que pedirle que se quite la camisa. El doctor querrá ver hasta dónde ha subido la infección.
La boca de Rehvenge esbozó una sonrisa mientras se llevaba las manos al botón superior de su camisa.
—Si sigues así voy a terminar desnudo. "

― J.R. Ward , Lover Avenged (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #7)

168 " If I asked you to come here again,” he said, “and let me be with you, would you?”
There was no hesitation. “Yes.”
“Even if things couldn’t be…normal…between us? Sexually speaking.”
“Yes.”
He frowned. “This is going to come out wrong….”
“Which is fine, because I’ve already put my foot in it with you back at the clinic. We’ll just be even.”
Rehv had to smile, but the expression didn’t stick. “I have to know…why. Why would you come back.”
Ehlena lay back down against the pillows and, in a slow sweep, moved her hand up over the satin sheet that covered her stomach. “I have only one answer to that, but I don’t think it’s going to be what you want to hear.”
The cold numbness, which was returning as the remnants of those orgasms he’d had dissipated, sped up its reclamation of his body. Please let it not be pity, he thought. “Tell me.”
She was quiet for a long while, her stare shifting out toward the blinking, glowing view of Caldwell’s two halves.
“You ask me why I would come back?” she said softly. “And the only answer I have is…how could I not.” Her eyes flipped to his. “It doesn’t make sense to me on some level, but then, feelings don’t make sense, do they? And they don’t have to. Tonight…you gave me things I not only haven’t had for a long time, but I don’t think I’ve ever felt.” She shook her head. “I wrapped up a body yesterday…a body of someone my own age, a body of someone who likely as not had headed out of his house the evening he was killed with no clue that it was his last night. I don’t know where this”—she gestured back and forth between them—“thing with us is going. Maybe it’s just a night or two. Maybe it’s a month. Maybe it’s longer than can be measured by a decade. All I know is, life is too short not to come back here and be with you like this again. Life is just too short, and I like being with you too much for me to give a crap about anything other than having another moment like this.”
Rehvenge’s chest swelled as he stared at her.
“Ehlena?”
“Yeah?”
“Don’t take this the wrong way.”
She drew in a deep breath and he saw her bare shoulders tighten. “Okay. I’ll try not to.”
“You keep showing up here? Being who you are?” There was a pause. “I’m going to fall in love with you.”

-Rehv & Ehlena "

― J.R. Ward , Lover Avenged (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #7)

169 " —Más alta que lo normal —apostilló él.
Ehlena clavó su mirada color ámbar en los ojos de Rehv.
—Por la infección de su brazo.
—No, por sus ojos. "

― J.R. Ward , Lover Avenged (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #7)

170 " —¡Qué imbécil! Lo siento, pero debe de ser un imbécil.
Ehlena se rió y a Rehv le encantó el sonido de su risa, en especial la manera como su cuerpo parecía calentarse al oírla. Joder, al diablo con las duchas de agua caliente. Lo que él necesitaba era esa risa suave y discreta.
—¿Estás sonriendo? —le preguntó él con voz suave.
—Sí. Quiero decir que sí, supongo. ¿Cómo lo ha sabido?
—Sólo tenía la esperanza de que estuvieras sonriendo. "

― J.R. Ward , Lover Avenged (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #7)

171 " I’m the king. I can do whatever the fuck I want. "

― J.R. Ward , Lover Avenged (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #7)

172 " A veces las palabras eran menos valiosas que el aire que las transportaba, cuando se trataba de estar cerca. "

― J.R. Ward , Lover Avenged (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #7)

173 " You are the son other mothers may only wish for.”
“How can that possibly be true,” he said softly.
“How can it not.”

-Rehv's mother and Rehv "

― J.R. Ward , Lover Avenged (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #7)

174 " Most of the females got nervous around him—even the toughest ones. Ehlena? Not so much. Yes, the guy had some Godfather in him, those black pin-striped suits and his cropped mohawk and his amethyst eyes throwing off a don’t-f-with-me-if-you-want-to-keep-breathing vibe. And it was true, when you were shut into an exam room with him, there was the impulse to keep your eye on the exit in case you needed to use it. And there were those tattoos on his chest…and the fact that he kept his cane with him as if it were not just an aid for walking, but a weapon. And… Okay, so the guy made Ehlena nervous, too. "

― J.R. Ward , Lover Avenged (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #7)

175 " —El tiempo es un lujo, lo creas o no —dijo.
—A mí me parece una maldición. "

― J.R. Ward , Lover Avenged (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #7)

176 " Los delicados copos que caían entre su pelo negro y corto y sobre esos hombros desnudos y fuertes no lograban suavizar su imagen ni un poco. Ella no era ningún ángel que estaba siendo amable con él por una razón sencilla. Era perversa, peligrosa e impredecible.
Y él la amaba. "

― J.R. Ward , Lover Avenged (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #7)

177 " Now all he had were delusions that tortured him, and though they were only perception, never reality, the voices were a jail no less ironclad for the fact that no one else could see the bars or hear the warden. "

― J.R. Ward , Lover Avenged (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #7)

178 " Lo que hay entre nosotros. Tal vez sea un asunto de una noche o dos. Tal vez dure un mes. Tal vez una década. Lo único que sé es que la vida es demasiado corta como para no regresar aquí y estar contigo otra vez de esta manera. La vida es demasiado corta y me gusta mucho estar contigo como para preocuparme por algo distinto a tener otro momento como éste. "

― J.R. Ward , Lover Avenged (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #7)

179 " John estaba comenzando a entender que las emociones del corazón eran como los tendones del cuerpo. Podías estirarlos y estirarlos, y sentir el dolor del esfuerzo... y hasta cierto punto, la articulación seguía funcionando y la extremidad se podía flexionar, podía soportar peso y seguir siendo útil después de que pasaba la tensión. Hasta que se rompía. "

― J.R. Ward , Lover Avenged (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #7)

180 " A veces el hecho de que te vieras obligado a ser fuerte era suficiente para volverte fuerte. "

― J.R. Ward , Lover Avenged (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #7)