Tessa Bailey

“If I’m not doing that, I’m doing nothing. I’ve been doing nothing.” Rosie laid her ice-cold hands on the sides of her face. For the past week, she’d been feeling apprehensive, positive things were moving forward too easily with her and Dominic. Waiting for the other shoe to drop. Was this why? “Oh my God.”
“That’s enough of this,” Dominic ground out, putting an arm around her shoulders. “Stop upsetting her.”

She didn’t even know which part of her was in command. Her head, her heart, her lady business. Or maybe they all were, three bitches hitting the switches of her control panel.

“I can be in a room full of people that I know and still not feel like I belong.”

Bet you’re used to men falling all over themselves to make
you happy, huh?” He tossed the can up in the air, caught it. “Sorry, I’m not going to be one of them.”

A chorus of yeses greeted the strangled question.

“I can’t fuck you here, baby. But that’s exactly what I’m going to do if we keep at it like this.”

animal attraction, paired with actual love and respect, only exists in scripted movies and romance novels.

Jude is beginning to get a weird vibe

A woman who walked into a room and got the job she applied for, because she dressed for it. Because she exuded confidence and expected her due.

“Hey, scumbag! How about you shut your mouth?” She jabbed a finger at the leader, and his cigarette froze on the way to his mouth. “Mamas don’t bother warning girls about jerks like yourself, because no one would come within ten feet of you. Smelly old ball sac!”