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Hard as Steel (Hard Ink, #4.5; Raven Riders, #0.5) QUOTES

Hard as Steel (Hard Ink, #4.5; Raven Riders, #0.5) QUOTES

1 " Jess pushed herself up to sit next to him. "In case you didn't get the memo, it' s my turn to take care of you right now." Ike dropped his face into his hands on a groan, and Jess's cool hand massages his neck. "Oh, my God. You're so hot."

He chuffed out a small laugh. "Why, thank you."

Jess Chuckled. "You realize you don't have to fish for compliments, right? Not from me. Because I will straight-up tell you that the sight of your Ravens tat stretched over all these muscles gives me a lady boner." Her fingers traced the design across his shoulder blades - a spread-winged raven perches on the hilt of a dagger sunk into the eye socket of a skull. The block letters of the club's name arched over the menacing black bird.

He threw her some major side-eye. "I know I'm sick because the perverted part of my brain just heard you say my ink gives you a lady boner. "

― Laura Kaye , Hard as Steel (Hard Ink, #4.5; Raven Riders, #0.5)

2 " He hadn't really rejected her, had he?

Or maybe she was reading into her memory of the moment what she wanted to see.

Probably.

Then again, he'd been hard. And he;s looked at her like he wanted to eat her. And she was totally game to be his buffet. "

― Laura Kaye , Hard as Steel (Hard Ink, #4.5; Raven Riders, #0.5)

3 " The only upside to that ice-cold bath was that Ike has gotten wet and tossed his shirt, and Jess thought she might be willing to be sick more often if it meant getting to see him shirtless. Because, holy bad-ass tattooed biker on a stick, he was so freaking hot. Cut muscles, ink everywhere, two insanely delicious indents low on his waist. And scars Jess has no idea how Ike had gotten.

All that goodness and Jess couldn't even see the big Ravens tat that she knew covered Ike's broad back. But she'd seen it before, back at Hard Ink when Jeremy occasionally did a new piece for Ike. She'd seen it enough to know that she'd love to have a good reason to dig her fingers into that tat... "

― Laura Kaye , Hard as Steel (Hard Ink, #4.5; Raven Riders, #0.5)

4 " Toast is boring. Doritos are life. "

― Laura Kaye , Hard as Steel (Hard Ink, #4.5; Raven Riders, #0.5)

5 " NO way was she crying in front of Ike. He already treated her like an overprotective big brother as it was. And that was really freaking annoying because it meant her fantasy of climbing him like a tree and having her wily way with him weren't ever coming true. Unrequited lust sucked big hairy donkey balls. "

― Laura Kaye , Hard as Steel (Hard Ink, #4.5; Raven Riders, #0.5)

6 " You realize if you stand in my kitchen, I'm gonna put you to work, right?" Bunny asked after a minute.

"I'm at your service," he said.

She laughed. "My favorite words ever. "

― Laura Kaye , Hard as Steel (Hard Ink, #4.5; Raven Riders, #0.5)

7 " They’d been sitting on the couch for a few hours trying to find something to watch. Cop and military type shows were out—too much like real life. The Walking Dead marathon was out, because people you liked always died on that show—too much like what they feared life might become. Ike had suggested the World Series of Poker, but Jess thought watching people play cards was boring. She’d suggested a dancing reality show, but Ike put the kibosh on that idea with a single look. Ike’s desire to put off sleeping alone again had him finally agreeing to a house hunting show Jess liked where the couple saw three houses and had to decide which to buy. Ike’s conclusion: people were idiots sometimes. “Should’ve picked the older house. More character,” he said. “Right?” Jess said, smiling. “You can fix up an older house, but it’s harder to give a newer house that kind of character.” “I knew I liked you for a reason,” he said, giving her a wink. “Because I’m awesome.” She turned toward him on the couch and propped her elbow on the back of the couch. "

― Laura Kaye , Hard as Steel (Hard Ink, #4.5; Raven Riders, #0.5)

8 " Funny thing about having choices taken away from you—it tended to make things all kinds of crystal clear. You either felt relief all the way into your bones because it was the right decision even if you hadn’t made it, or every cell inside you cried out in rebellion and loss and regret because you learned—too late—what it was you really wanted. "

― Laura Kaye , Hard as Steel (Hard Ink, #4.5; Raven Riders, #0.5)