Tessa Bailey
Tessa Bailey is originally from Carlsbad, California. The day after high school graduation, she packed her yearbook, ripped jeans and laptop, driving cross-country to New York City in under four days. She now lives in Brooklyn, New York with her husband of seven years and three-year-old daughter. (Tessa Bailey Quotes)
“A wise woman once told me it’s not my job to teach people to be happy.”
Tessa Bailey
Window Shopping
“And when her face transformed with pure joy and she waved enthusiastically, Brendan knew he loved her.”
Tessa Bailey
It Happened One Summer
“As for herself, she’d lacked any type of shield or voice of reason. Her life had been molded into a shape and left to harden in the sun. It was too late for her to change now.”
Tessa Bailey
Protecting What’s His
“As her idol Dolly Parton once said, “If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.”
Tessa Bailey
Protecting What’s His
“Baby, I don’t need an excuse to cuff you. I just need the opportunity.”
Tessa Bailey
Protecting What’s His
“Baby, sometimes what I’m thinking doesn’t translate into words. You’re going to have to badger them out of me until I get better at this, okay?”
Tessa Bailey
Staking His Claim
“But as Derek watched himself holding Ginger in the mirror over the sink, her smaller, trembling body engulfed by his naked arms and chest, he felt the furthest thing from unaffected. Every sob or shudder that moved through her robbed him of breath. Derek wanted to decimate her sadness and anything causing it. Feeling powerless, he rubbed circles on her back with one hand.”
Tessa Bailey
Protecting What’s His
“But none of them bless themselves after saying ‘hell’ or make me crazy to see them smile.”
Tessa Bailey
Risking it All
“Connor didn’t look at her as if she were an exhibit at the zoo. A strange and exotic bird. No, he looked as if he wanted to climb into the exhibit with her, find out how to adapt. Erin felt a sudden dose of yearning”
Tessa Bailey
Up in Smoke
“Do you feel that, baby? That’s your man moving inside you.”
Tessa Bailey
Protecting What’s His
“Do you have any idea how much it turns me on, knowing something of mine has been cradling your sweet pussy all day long?”
Tessa Bailey
His Risk to Take
“Do you want some proof I can be more than a nice guy, sweetheart?”
Tessa Bailey
Window Shopping
“Don’t dump my stash. I hereby bequeath all manner of pleasure machines to you, my pasty, studious little friend.”
Tessa Bailey
Staking His Claim
“Don’t let the bow tie fool you, Stella. I’m not always nice,” he says, a deep burr in his voice. “When the situation calls for it, I can be downright rough.”
Tessa Bailey
Window Shopping
“Don’t trade emotional currency with strangers. You will never get a refund.”
Tessa Bailey
Window Shopping
“Don’t worry.” He granted her two more quick thrusts, then moved his wet fingers to the tight bundle of nerves, pressing tight and holding. “You’re going to be full of me later.”
Tessa Bailey
Asking for Trouble
“Don’t wrap my legs around you?” she panted. He grazed her lips with his. “I couldn’t say it out loud. It’s too sad.”
Tessa Bailey
Chase Me
“Every man I date either cheats or can’t commit. Or is already way too committed to his mother. Or PlayStation.”
Tessa Bailey
Fix Her Up
“Everyone had weaknesses. They just came in different sizes and shapes.”
Tessa Bailey
Tools of Engagement
“Everyone has a deck of cards for each person they love. You’ve got your regret cards, your good memory cards, bad memory cards. When one of your people dies, the deck of cards gets thrown up into the air and the cards scatter everywhere. Wakes and funerals are about putting them into a new order. You have to.” (Tessa Bailey Quotes)
Tessa Bailey
Reborn Yesterday
“Everyone’s low expectations of her were beginning to wear kind of thin, though. One look at her and this prick had become as dismissive of her abilities as her stepfather and her ex-boyfriend. What was it about her that courted such harsh judgment?”
Tessa Bailey
It Happened One Summer
“Everything was insane. She was forcing him to consider light and shadows, when he’d only ever dealt in black and white. And she was the light. Shining bright enough to flay him”
Tessa Bailey
Too Wild to Tame
“Expecting perfect can only lead to disappointment. Besides, it’s the flaws that give a person character. That’s where the beauty hides.”
Tessa Bailey
Tools of Engagement
“Yeah. Bite me, gorgeous. Mark up my whole body. I want everyone to know who I belong to. Who I get hard for. Just you, Story. Just you.”
Tessa Bailey
Officer off Limits
“Get your head out of the gutter, baby. You Catholic girls and your filthy minds.”
Tessa Bailey
Risking it All
“Getaway Girl!” shouts a photographer, lifting his camera. “Over here!” “You’re going to have to come up with another name for her!” Elijah calls back. “I’m never letting her get away again.”
Tessa Bailey
Getaway Girl
“Given your ability to keep your sense of humor under stress, either a war general or a comedian.”
Tessa Bailey
Reborn Yesterday
“God, please touch it. It hurts so bad,” he growled, freeing himself from his pants. “I’ve been going mad every morning, knowing you were up here all naked and soft. I’ve got to have you now, baby. Let me have you or I’m going to lose my mind. I can’t think. I can’t think.”
Tessa Bailey
His Risk to Take
“Had this man ever been out of his depth for a single second in his life? Had she just dragged him into the deep end? How intoxicating…and how good it felt. So good. So good”
Tessa Bailey
Too Wild to Tame
“Hayden felt ready to snap. She felt out of control. She needed something. Unfortunately, she had a feeling that something was the six-foot-five hormone-whisperer walking beside her, whistling the Happy Days theme song.”
Tessa Bailey
Asking for Trouble
“He didn’t have words to describe her. She glowed. She’d somehow fallen out of the sky and landed in this unworthy place, with an unworthy man.”
Tessa Bailey
Risking it All
“He felt her hand curl in the material of his shirt, and it was a glorious goddamn feeling. So if presented with an unknown threat, she would consider him the lesser of the two evils. Right. He could work with that. Some marriages had been founded on less, and he merely wanted to shag her senseless.”
Tessa Bailey
Boiling Point
“He gave in to just a touch of temptation, tucking a wind-tangled strand of hair behind her ear. Soft. “It means I’ll be around.”
Tessa Bailey
It Happened One Summer
“He growled, equally exhilarated and annoyed by the way she insisted on pushing him back. “I’m going to put you on your knees, Ruby. You’re going to hate how much you love it.”
Tessa Bailey
His Risk to Take
“He kissed Abby. Abby. He…kissed Abby. Sensation exploded in his head like an atom bomb, incinerating everything in its path.”
Tessa Bailey
Make Me
“He leaned down and his breath feathered across her forehead, then down to her ear where he spoke in a coaxing voice. “I can make you talk, baby. Is that what you want? If you need my hand between your legs, all you have to do is ask me.”
Tessa Bailey
Protecting What’s His
“He pointed at Abby’s electric-blue pumps. “Women wear these evil creations around to confuse us. Sure, they make a girl’s legs look good, but that’s the black magic, my friends. They want us to feel their pain and not understand why.”
Tessa Bailey
Make Me
“He’d tried once or twice in the past to be the guy who whispered sweet nothings into a girl’s ear when she came, but he’d never been able to keep up the façade. He’d rather be explaining in very explicit terms how and where he planned to take her next. It was a part of him he couldn’t explain, but had learned to embrace. Finding women to embrace it with him tended to be the difficult part.”
Tessa Bailey
His Risk to Take
“He’d ridiculed her at the outset. Now he wanted to fight off anything that made her sad.”
Tessa Bailey
It Happened One Summer
“Her sister was a goddess with a pure, romantic spirit, and it was about time people flocked to her.”
Tessa Bailey
It Happened One Summer
“His existence is a threat to my sanity.”
Tessa Bailey
Need Me
“How did I survive this long without you? I love you, Eliza. It’s all I can feel. I’m made of it. If you’ve got even an ounce of this for me, I’m so damn grateful.”
Tessa Bailey
Exposed by Fate
“How do people live their lives feeling like this, day in and day out? Like your next breath depends on another person’s happiness? She’s torture and heaven all wrapped up in one forbidden package.”
Tessa Bailey
Officer off Limits
“How do you manage to see the best in everyone, Willa, but only the worst in yourself?”
Tessa Bailey
Unfixable
“How many dinners with Evan’s freakishly perfect parents could I sit through before I impaled myself on a fork?”
Tessa Bailey
Unfixable
“How soft she’d be beneath him, how high maintenance she’d probably be in the sack and how he’d deliver. Again and again, until she wrecked his back with her fingernails.”
Tessa Bailey
It Happened One Summer
“I can make you talk, baby. Is that what you want? If you need my hand between your legs, all you have to do is ask me.”
Tessa Bailey
Protecting What’s His
“I didn’t make it one goddamn block yesterday, Ruby.” He swiped an impatient hand through his hair. “Look, we’re both stubborn hotheads, and we’re going to fight. Early and often. But I will never make it more than one block before I come back. That is my promise to you. And I don’t break my promises, either.” Hands on hips, he breathed deeply as if attempting to calm himself. “If I let my fear of losing you keep us apart, I get the same damn result. The only way I can fight that fear is if you fight it with me.”
Tessa Bailey
His Risk to Take
“I didn’t say I couldn’t touch.” She gripped the collar of his shirt and dragged him forward, bringing their mouths an inch apart. “Just you.” A muscle ticked in his jaw. “I’ll make you beg for my goddamn hands on you.”
Tessa Bailey
Up in Smoke
“I hate you.” A muscle jumped in his cheek. “Good. You’ll come all the harder for it.”
Tessa Bailey
Driven by Fate
“I have the heartache version of a man cold.”
Tessa Bailey
Window Shopping
“I just watched you bend over a pool table in those ridiculously tight jeans. Over. And over. You think I could stop at kissing?” (Tessa Bailey Quotes)
Tessa Bailey
His Risk to Take
“I know I’m not who you’d pick for her. I’m probably not even who she would pick, but I’ll change that. I’ll give her everything.”
Tessa Bailey
Staking His Claim
“I love you so badly I could get lost in it and never find my way back out.”
Tessa Bailey
Owned by Fate
“I love you, too. I love you, too. I want to stay right here with you, I don’t want to leave.”
Tessa Bailey
Owned by Fate
“I need to get my lips around you. I’m going to suck that little bud until you pass out. You’ve been keeping her from me, but time’s up, sweetheart. She’s mine.”
Tessa Bailey
Up in Smoke
“I swear to Christ, baby, you were made for me. You feel that?” He pulled out of her, then slammed home once more. “Mine. My Lucy. Let me hear you say it.”
Tessa Bailey
Staking His Claim
“I think I said, ‘If you loved me, you’d understand what I’m going through.’” “And I said, ‘I do love you, Rosie. That’s why I want to go through it with you.”
Tessa Bailey
Love Her or Lose Her
“I tried to tell myself wanting you, keeping you, was selfish. Maybe it is.” His lips brushed her forehead. “But I’m lost here, Lucy. I’m lost without everything you’ve got.”
Tessa Bailey
Staking His Claim
“I want to be the man who steals it. All day, every day. Forever. Stay with me right here.”
Tessa Bailey
Too Hot to Handle
“I warned you that I’m having a difficult time being a gentleman. Should I assume you’re provoking me on purpose?”
Tessa Bailey
Protecting What’s His
“I would make a new bribe every day if I thought staying her would make you happy.”
Tessa Bailey
Too Hot to Handle
“I’d almost fooled myself into believing I was nearly human. Then I meet you, I smell you, and I’m reminded I’m a beast. The man knows he can’t and shouldn’t have you, but the animal refuses to share.”
Tessa Bailey
Reborn Yesterday
“I’ll have you over him in five minutes flat, babe.” Biting my ear lightly, he fingers the snap of my jeans. “Let me take him right out of your head”
Tessa Bailey
Unfixable
“I’ll hold you every day for the rest of my life,” I say, my voice hoarse. “Or it won’t be worth living, Addison. Don’t tell me I shouldn’t hold you.”
Tessa Bailey
Getaway Girl
“I’ll love you until my heart gives out. I’ll be your man for a thousand years. Longer if I’m allowed.”
Tessa Bailey
It Happened One Summer
“I’m about as approachable and welcoming as a vampire bat.”
Tessa Bailey
Window Shopping
“I’m going to come on your panties. And the next time I see them, I’m going to rip them off with my teeth. Is that clear?”
Tessa Bailey
His Risk to Take
“I’m going to love teaching you some patience, sweetheart. You don’t know what dying means yet. You’ll know when you’ve come for my mouth so many times, you’d sell your soul to be filled.”
Tessa Bailey
Owned by Fate
“I’m going to put you on the ground, now, Willa.” He clutches a fistful of my hair and whispers hotly against my ear. “Then I’m going to get between your thighs. I told you this was inevitable, didn’t I?”
Tessa Bailey
Unfixable
“I’m going to put you on your knees, Ruby. You’re going to hate how much you love it.”
Tessa Bailey
His Risk to Take
“I’m going to take myself somewhere my intellect is appreciated. Xbox Live. Goodnight, ladies.”
Tessa Bailey
Need Me
“I’m going to take some much-needed time with your mouth right now. While I do, you’re going to continue stroking me until I’m so close to coming, I’ll be ready to die just to drill you against this wall. But I won’t. I’m going to stop you just before I bust. Then I’m going to lick the sweet pussy that’s been waiting so patiently for me.” He surged into her hand. “Come on, baby. Make me suffer.” (Tessa Bailey Quotes)
Tessa Bailey
Protecting What’s Theirs
“I’m losing my mind, Addison.” I wrap her hair around my fists and lift her head away from my lap. “This is what it’s like to have a man obsessed with you. Do you like it?”
Tessa Bailey
Getaway Girl
“I’m so glad you created this place. It’s going to be a town landmark, and it’s due to your hard work.” Lord, Jasper wanted to shake her. Her words were genuine, but they weren’t coming at the right time. They were unwelcome when good-bye was so close on the horizon. “I appreciate that. Everything your family did tonight.” A cannonball materialized in his stomach, dragging him down, down. He didn’t want anyone there to witness when he hit bottom. Especially her. “But this is where I let you go, Rita. I need you to go. I can’t look at you anymore without making a fool out of myself.”
Tessa Bailey
Too Hot to Handle
“I’m strongest when you’re around, but I’m going to get better at using that strength, even when you’re not standing beside me.”
Tessa Bailey
Fix Her Up
“I’m the type to ignore a pebble in my boot until it gives me a blister. I’ve made ignoring problems an art form.”
Tessa Bailey
Unfixable
“I’m warning you right now, it’s going to be a rough ride. If you’re not ready for it yet, I’ll put you on your knees for a while to take my edge off.”
Tessa Bailey
Baiting the Maid of Honor
“I’ve literally reached the end of internet adult. Spoiler, the only prize you win is shame.”
Tessa Bailey
Love Her or Lose Her
“I’ve only been here a couple minutes, but it was long enough to recognize first class.”
Tessa Bailey
Baiting the Maid of Honor
“If Ginger could just be a good enough person for long enough, she could flip the script for Willa, though.”
Tessa Bailey
Protecting What’s His
“If he hadn’t been so focused on not losing her rather than keeping her.”
Tessa Bailey
Make Me
“If I ever start to lose strength again, I’ll just think of how it felt to lose the girl who loved me, even when I couldn’t love myself.”
Tessa Bailey
Fix Her Up
“If I sit across from you much longer, I’m going to pull you astride my lap and kiss your superbly formed mouth until you soak straight through my pants.” He pulled back just enough to watch redness suffuse her cheeks. “It wouldn’t take long, sweetheart. I can do amazing things with my tongue.”
Tessa Bailey
Owned by Fate
“If I were the kind of man who apologized for something he said, this may or may not be how I would go about doing it.”
Tessa Bailey
Baiting the Maid of Honor
“If she ever decided to stop pretending they didn’t set each other on fire, she’d seriously have to woo his ass. And no, he didn’t care if that made him sound like a chick.”
Tessa Bailey
Asking for Trouble
“If someone put a single scratch on your skin, I would go utterly mad, Ginny, and yet I burn to sink my teeth into your neck every second of the day. I don’t know how to uncomplicate that for you.”
Tessa Bailey
Reborn Yesterday
“If this woman tacked the word “please” onto any request, he would find a way to fulfill it. Build me a palace, please. How many floors, baby?”
Tessa Bailey
It Happened One Summer
“If you keep working that hot little tongue against mine, I’ll have no choice.”
Tessa Bailey
Officer off Limits
“If you need servicing while we’re stuck in this fancy-ass hotel for a week, I’m going to be the one to do it. No one else. Not Golden Boy. Not even your right hand.”
Tessa Bailey
Baiting the Maid of Honor
“If you never left again, I would still spend the rest of my life missing you.”
Tessa Bailey
Too Hot to Handle
“If you want the rainbow, you’ve got to put up with the rain.”
Tessa Bailey
Protecting What’s His
“I’m not going to let you walk away thinking I didn’t love every second I spent touching you. Kissing your pretty mouth.”
Tessa Bailey
Officer off Limits
“Is this like a strange kink? Instead of flashing people, you just go around accosting people with bizarre tales?”
Tessa Bailey
Window Shopping
“Is this your first time?” She dropped her forehead to the bed. “First time I’ve had it done right.”
Tessa Bailey
Driven by Fate
“It makes choices for you. It demands you obey it, not taking no for an answer. And it’s usually right. It knows you better than you know yourself.”
Tessa Bailey
Unfixable
“It turns you inside out. Occasionally, it hurts, but in the best way imaginable. To remind you of how powerful it is. To keep you feeling alive.”
Tessa Bailey
Unfixable
“It’ll never be enough. I can’t touch all of you at once and it drives me crazy. I need everything, always. More, more.”
Tessa Bailey
Risking it All
“It’s inevitable, Willa. We are inevitable. When you stop fooling yourself, come find me.”
Tessa Bailey
Unfixable
“It’s only been one day since I was deep inside here, but it’s been too long.” Unexpectedly, he gave her a rough squeeze through her panties. “I know ways to get it deeper.” (Tessa Bailey Quotes)
Tessa Bailey
Chase Me
“It’s so good because I love you Rita. It’s good because you love me back. No matter the time it took. When it’s right, it’s right.”
Tessa Bailey
Too Hot to Handle
“I’ve loved you up one side of forever. Now I’m going to love you back down the other.”
Tessa Bailey
Thrown Down
“I’ve met her twice in my life. This time, I was smart enough to fall in love with her.”
Tessa Bailey
Fix Her Up
“Jesus Christ. This is what sin feels like,” he rasped. “Wrong and right, at the same time. Life and death. Blond, long-legged, and tight.”
Tessa Bailey
Too Hard to Forget
“Leaned back in his chair and did a quick scan of his cluttered office. What would she think of him when she walked in here?”
Tessa Bailey
Chase Me
“Let me be clear, Ginger, since you insist on talking in circles. I want you underneath me in my bed. I want to be buried inside you so deep that I have to remind you of your own name.”
Tessa Bailey
Protecting What’s His
“Listen to me. I love your sister. I love her so much I can’t wait for tomorrow. To see what she says, what she wears, which laugh she’ll use. She’s not your sister to me. She’s Lucy. She’s the girl who makes me feel human.”
Tessa Bailey
Staking His Claim
“Listen to me.” He waited for her nod. “You’re going to take me somewhere now where I can see you without your panties on. I’m going to get you off good and hard, maybe a few times. And then, Honey, we’re going to talk.” He bucked his hips into her twice. “But first, I’m going so dirty, you won’t be able to look anyone but me in the eye afterward. Have you heard everything I’ve said?”
Tessa Bailey
Need Me
“Love comes in many forms. It’s not always sweet. Or comfortable. Sometimes it’s selfish and consuming. Volatile. It makes choices for you. It demands you obey it, not taking no for an answer. And it’s usually right. It knows you better than you know yourself.”
Tessa Bailey
Unfixable
“Maybe it was the way she only reached his shoulder that sent protectiveness surging up to his jugular, while somehow—at the very same time—he wanted to seek refuge in her.”
Tessa Bailey
Fix Her Up
“Maybe she should try to put her phone down more often. Or at least take in the real moments when she could.”
Tessa Bailey
It Happened One Summer
“Miss you?” He grated the incredulous question, dropping his mouth to her temple. “You left me without a soul. I can barely remember the days since you left. They passed without me feeling a single thing. Because you are feeling for me. You’re the only thing that keeps me from being numb. Twice in my life you’ve turned me back into a living, breathing man, and missing you… missing you, Peggy, doesn’t even begin to cover it. You revive me.”
Tessa Bailey
Too Hard to Forget
“More than likely, his skill had been perfected with hundreds of women. And she’d just inflated his ego even more by acting out her own amateur version of Gone in Sixty Seconds against his leg”
Tessa Bailey
Officer off Limits
“My sanity, my soul, my existence, depend on you being mine.” He groaned a first to his chest, right above his heart. “This cannot be governed by rules. I was a fool to think it ever could.”
Tessa Bailey
Reborn Yesterday
“New Yorkers hustled past in every direction, somehow managing not to run smack into one another. A dozen scents hit her at once. Car exhaust, meat being grilled by a sidewalk vendor, and was that…a slight hint of urine?”
Tessa Bailey
Officer off Limits
“Next time you need me, wake me up.” He bit her earlobe, tugged. “You don’t spend a minute unsatisfied in my bed. Understand?”
Tessa Bailey
Asking for Trouble
“Nothing in my life has felt as amazing as you, either. Nothing.”
Tessa Bailey
Window Shopping
“Now Lucy sighed on his behalf. Communication must be difficult when your ass whittled the opposite sex’s vocabulary down to one word.”
Tessa Bailey
Staking His Claim
“Now, gorgeous girl. What dirty little secret were you going to tell me? Let me know when I’m getting warm.” His thumbs drew lazy circles on the insides of her knees. “Were you going to tell me that you woke up after our night together, all tight and wet for me, wishing I was still there to take care of you?”
Tessa Bailey
Officer off Limits
“Officer Brent Mason, at your service. You let me know if anyone gives you trouble, capiche?”
Tessa Bailey
Driven by Fate
“Oftentimes people make questionable decisions. And even though they already taste the fat regret sandwich headed their way, they do it with a smile.”
Tessa Bailey
Protecting What’s His
“Oh captain, my captain.” The fighter slapped a hand over his heart, punctuating the heavy Brooklyn accent he spoke with. “Try not to endear yourself to me too quickly. We just got here.”
Tessa Bailey
Up in Smoke
“Oh, I’ll keep going. If for no other reason than to show you what happens when you walk into my room asking for things you don’t understand.”
Tessa Bailey
Driven by Fate
“People who are good and kind, inside and out, hold up mirrors to the malevolence around them. I’ve walked this earth for almost ninety years and I’ve never met anyone who exemplifies that truth more fully than you, Ginny. You are good in every sense of the word. And evil hates reminders of what they’re incapable of being.” He kissed her mouth softly. “Let them flail and sputter in their inferiority. You’re a goddess among fruit flies.”
Tessa Bailey
Reborn Yesterday
“Prayer isn’t an excuse to sin.”
Tessa Bailey
Too Hard to Forget
“Roxy had once called him the Pussy Whisperer, and it had kind of stuck. For the sake of brevity, though, they simply called him P-Dub.” (Tessa Bailey Quotes)
Tessa Bailey
Need Me
“Running for mayor is time consuming. That’s why I’ve never done it.” My laugh sneaks up on me. “Oh, is that why?”
Tessa Bailey
Getaway Girl
“Russell had a theory that every girl owned one perfect dress that could make men do anything they wanted.”
Tessa Bailey
Chase Me
“Say the first five words that comes to mind when you think about it.” “Damp. Friendly. Fireplaces. Beer. Wool.”
Tessa Bailey
Reborn Yesterday
“She wanted to be alone with him. To hear what he’d say next. To see exactly how he hoped to accomplish his goal of getting her into bed.”
Tessa Bailey
Protecting What’s His
“She wanted, craved Jonah. He’d grabbed hold of her libido and shaken it like a snow globe.”
Tessa Bailey
Owned by Fate
“She’d been pleasantly surprised to find out the movie starred Mark Wahlberg and Reese Witherspoon and decided the tape probably belonged to Bethany—but around the one-hour mark, the scene happened. The one on the roller coaster when Mark uses his finger on Reese.”
Tessa Bailey
Fix Her Up
“She’d wanted to be free, thought it was the only way to be happy, when happiness was belonging to Jonah.”
Tessa Bailey
Owned by Fate
“She’d once been told by her Sunday school teacher that she laughed loudly enough to distract Jesus from performing miracles.”
Tessa Bailey
Baiting the Maid of Honor
“Small favors often turn into full-time obligations.”
Tessa Bailey
Protecting What’s His
“So you know what your punishment is going to be, sweetheart? I’m going to make love to you. Slowly. Hell, it might take me until tomorrow. I’m going to lose count of how many times you come. And every time you do, I’m going to tell you that I love you. Until you get used to it.”
Tessa Bailey
Protecting What’s His
“Somehow she’d ended up in bed with the man mothers warn their daughters to stay away from. The kind of man fathers go after with a shotgun, their sobbing daughters trailing behind them in a wedding dress. She should have stayed away, because now that she knew what all the fuss was about, she would never be satisfied with anything less. He’d blindsided her, ruined her, and addicted her in one single evening.”
Tessa Bailey
Officer off Limits
“Somewhere in Hayden’s town house, her panties were still smoking.”
Tessa Bailey
Staking His Claim
“Speaking of Austin, he and Polly were in the back row, closest to the exit. They weren’t in a place just yet where trusting a roomful of cops was in their repertoire.”
Tessa Bailey
Raw Redemption
“Speaking of jeans, good Lord, the man’s ass was a bona fide work of art. As he strode toward the nearby counter to place his order, his work boots not making a single sound, those tight buns set off a choir of rejoicing angels in her head.”
Tessa Bailey
Staking His Claim
“Starting now, Rita, for each minute it takes to put that thing in the oven, I’m going to give your incredible arise a slap. You understand me?”
Tessa Bailey
Too Hot to Handle
“That sparkle was positivity and life and promise of better things, and she always, always had it, glowing within the blue of her irises, lighting up the room.”
Tessa Bailey
It Happened One Summer
“That was for the hard-on I’ll be walking around with tonight. And you’ll goddamn wear the imprint of my hand on your ass for it.”
Tessa Bailey
Protecting What’s His
“The captain is a little sensitive about Piper,” Fox explained, still wearing that shit-eating grin. “He doesn’t know what to do with his confusing man feelings.”
Tessa Bailey
It Happened One Summer
“The first time I tongue you into coming, it’s going to be an apology. The second time will be a reward for waiting.” He fell to his knees and took his first intoxicating taste of Lucy. A growl worked its way free of his chest. “The third time is going to be because I love to hear you scream.”
Tessa Bailey
Staking His Claim
“The first time they’d met, in this very pub, he’d hit on her using so little finesse, she’d been forced to ask if he was kidding. Granted, they’d both had a few too many drinks that night, but nothing excused the line, “I’m not drunk, I’m just intoxicated by you.”
Tessa Bailey
Asking for Trouble
“The innocent memory of Georgie lying on his bed and mumbling that she needed Dale took on a whole new meaning.”
Tessa Bailey
Fix Her Up
“The kind of cry a woman gave when a man conquered her and she realized she loved it.”
Tessa Bailey
Up in Smoke
“The longer it takes me to get between your thighs, the rougher I’m going to be when I finally get there. Understand?”
Tessa Bailey
Protecting What’s His
“The scene reminded Lita of a Marvel Comics movie where the hero tries to blend in among mortals, but is so obviously everyone’s savior. Her savior. If he would only allow himself to be.”
Tessa Bailey
Rough Rhythm
“The thing about convictions is they run on faith. Now I need you to have it in me.”
Tessa Bailey
Raw Redemption
“There’s a lot we don’t know about each other. For instance, I didn’t know you were afraid of heights.” “What?” Ailish’s brow wrinkled. “I’m not afraid of heights.” “No.” Erin’s nodded at Ailish’s jean shorts. “Your zipper is, though.”
Tessa Bailey
Raw Redemption
“There’s something to be said for small victories when they’re made out of chocolate.”
Tessa Bailey
Officer off Limits
“This butt is courtesy of baked goods and there’s no getting around it—that fact or my ass.”
Tessa Bailey
Window Shopping
“This girl. I want to run away with her. Elope. Go on safaris. Sink down to the bottom of the ocean holding her hand.”
Tessa Bailey
Window Shopping
“This is where you’re soft, babe. Right here.” He drew his knuckle through her folds, back and forth, in a devastating pattern. “Does this soft pussy need something hard?”
Tessa Bailey
Need Me
“This isn’t summer camp.” Those hands clenched. Unclenched. “If you want to kiss me, you’ll get everything. I’m not going to hold back.”
Tessa Bailey
Up in Smoke
“This morning, he’d carved out daylight for her in that stifling basement.”
Tessa Bailey
Up in Smoke
“Trying to figure out what to do when no one is watching. And wondering if maybe that’s the stuff that actually matters.”
Tessa Bailey
It Happened One Summer
“Unlike her, he came from a good family. A prechopped pepper kind of family.”
Tessa Bailey
His Risk to Take
“Unlock the door or I’ll call a locksmith. You’re going to be comfortable in my home, goddammit.” Her mouth wobbles and she breaks into a laugh. “What is this? Aggressive southerning?”
Tessa Bailey
Getaway Girl
“We build resentments toward our loved ones. Sometimes we’re not even aware of them. But they grow so strong, they prevent us from remembering what we loved about our partners in the first place. Maybe one or both no longer wants to give their significant other the satisfaction of showing their amusement, so the other person stops trying. And the laughter dies.”
Tessa Bailey
Love Her or Lose Her
“We can fix this by laughing at ourselves. If we stop taking ourselves so seriously for a moment, our partner can do the same. There is relaxation and acceptance in laughter. It’s the anti-resentment drug.”
Tessa Bailey
Love Her or Lose Her
“We’re not about cutting people out of our lives. We’re about refusing to accept anything less than what we deserve. About realizing that we’re all important here despite mistakes or bad relationships or lackluster careers.” (Tessa Bailey Quotes)
Tessa Bailey
Fix Her Up
“What are you looking at?” “Just checking to see if your milkshake brought all the boys to the yard.”
Tessa Bailey
Getaway Girl
“When I bit you, I slid in even deeper.” His lips moved at her neck, over the bite mark. “Made you wet, didn’t it? Bad little beginner.”
Tessa Bailey
Driven by Fate
“When I had my tongue in it…when it started shaking for me…I thought I’d never taste anything sweeter. My smooth, wet Eliza.”
Tessa Bailey
Exposed by Fate
“When I hug you?” His heart was turning over and over like a car engine. “My hugs are your recharging station?”
Tessa Bailey
It Happened One Summer
“When I saw you on the side of the road, Rita, I saw my wife, I knew.”
Tessa Bailey
Too Hot to Handle
“When the doorman asked for his ID, Brent gave him a look that said seriously man? And kept walking.”
Tessa Bailey
Asking for Trouble
“When you think she deserves someone better? When you can’t imagine being the one who actually gets to keep her? That’s how you know you’re the one who deserves her. Not some asshole in a puffy shirt carrying a sword.”
Tessa Bailey
Baiting the Maid of Honor
“Who do you think you are?” His gaze dropped to her lips. “I’m the guy who’s going to kiss you tonight.”
Tessa Bailey
Risking it All
“Why do women believe they need an occasion to dress up? Dress up for life, goddammit!”
Tessa Bailey
Fix Her Up
“With this kiss, I willingly damn myself to a lifetime of suffering.”
Tessa Bailey
Reborn Yesterday
“You can be as high maintenance as you want, honey. But I’m the only one who does the maintenance.”
Tessa Bailey
It Happened One Summer
“You can wrap me as tight as you want around that little finger, but I won’t play games about what this is. Get me, Piper?”
Tessa Bailey
It Happened One Summer
“You could take me to Mass every day for the rest of my life and I’d still be the kind of guy who would finger you in the back row.”
Tessa Bailey
Risking it All
“You don’t get locked up somewhere for four years and leave without a few soul scrapes.”
Tessa Bailey
Window Shopping
“You don’t have to fight the battle alone… You don’t have to be alone at all. Give us a chance. I’m acknowledging the risk. I’m taking it.”
Tessa Bailey
Reborn Yesterday
“You have to admit, you’re a little clumsy.” I gasp. “Only when scary politicians leap out of the shadows.”
Tessa Bailey
Getaway Girl
“You have to fight for what you deserve. What you want is no more or less important than what anyone else wants.”
Tessa Bailey
Fix Her Up
“You know me as Oliver, your friend’s brother. The guy who gave you platonic hugs and wished you luck on your exams. The guy who asked you about your college classes or whether or not you liked your professors.” With one hand, he wrapped her hair in his fist and tilted her head so he could speak very precisely beside her ear. “I’ve got news for you, Eliza. I wanted to get you alone and screw your little college coed body silly.”
Tessa Bailey
Exposed by Fate
“You know there’s absolutely nothing you could do that would be wrong, don’t you?” Biting his lip, he ran the smooth head across the seam of her lips. “You could lap at it like a kitten, and I’d come like the dirty I am.”
Tessa Bailey
Make Me
“You marked up my neck last night with that filthy mouth of yours. And you know what else?” Troy felt his defenses slipping. Against his better judgment, he looked down and immediately got lost in her green eyes. “I like it. Having your marks on me.”
Tessa Bailey
His Risk to Take
“You own this city now, Mr. Mayor. Right now, that includes what’s under my dress.”
Tessa Bailey
Getaway Girl
“You ruined the sky for me today, Rita,” he said gruffly. “It’s flat-out mediocre without you up against it. I reckon it always will be now.”
Tessa Bailey
Too Hot to Handle
“You understand how it works yet, Polly? You tell me what your body needs… and I make it happen.” (Tessa Bailey Quotes)
Tessa Bailey
Boiling Point
“You were all given a choice,” Derek boomed. “Prison time or my time. One or the other. If you thought I was the lesser of two evils, you were wrong. You each have a skill that landed you in this room and I intend to use those skills to make Chicago safer.”
Tessa Bailey
Up in Smoke
“You’re going to be sore tomorrow. From me. Every time you walk, sit, or stand, you’re going to think of me.”
Tessa Bailey
Staking His Claim
“You’re incredible with or without me,” he rasped beside her ear. “I can do my best to learn to live with both if it means I get to keep your heart.”
Tessa Bailey
Love Her or Lose Her
“You’ve got innocent eyes, but a hot, greedy body. God help me, I would never stop banging you.”
Tessa Bailey
Risking it All
“You’ll have free rein to neglect me. Strap me to a chair and give me a naughty striptease until I’m begging. Give me a hand job beneath the table in a restaurant and leave me on the verge of coming. Make me crazy. Make me pay for everything I’ve done. Everything you hate.” He nipped at her earlobe. “Or simply prop your sweet arise up in the air and ask for a rough bang.”
Tessa Bailey
Boiling Point
“Your legs. I’d like to know the exact color of your pussy before I make it cry.”
Tessa Bailey
Driven by Fate
“Your own wife stole fifty grand from another version of O’Kelly once, didn’t she? Would you have returned your wife to that man just to create an opportunity to go undercover?” “Don’t you ever speak about my wife again.” Derek’s voice vibrated down the line.”
Tessa Bailey
Raw Redemption
“Your testing my patience here, duchess,” he growled. “If you have any doubt about my ability to ever-loving sarcasm right out of you, I’ll be more than happy to clear it up.”
Tessa Bailey
Asking for Trouble
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