Ruthless Creatures (Queens & Monsters, #1)

by J.T. Geissinger

“Sorry, princess. If you’re looking for a knight in shining armor, you’re looking in the wrong fucking place.”

“You are beautiful,” comes the hard reply. “But it has nothing to do with that fussy fucking dress.”

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“Interrupt me again and I’ll take you over my knee right here and spank that perfect ass of yours until you’re screaming.”

I need to kiss you.” “No.” It’s faint and not altogether convincing. “Then come sit on my lap and let me finger fuck you while I feed you dinner.”

“I want to taste every inch of you. I want to hear you scream my name. I want to make you come so hard you forget your own. I don’t have time to fuck around—excuse the pun—with the kind of wooing I’d usually do to win you, so that’s why I’m being so blunt. “Ask me to leave you alone and you have my word I will. But until I hear that, I have to tell you, Natalie, that I want to fuck your sweet cunt and your perfect ass and your luscious mouth and anything else you’ll let me fuck, because you are the single most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen in my life.”

“I want everything you have to give, Natalie, for as long as you want to give it to me.”

“I haven’t stopped thinking about you since the day we met. I’m not someone who obsesses over things, but I’ve obsessed over you.

I’d rather have the ugly truth than a beautiful lie.

“For a guy who claims to be such a bad scary criminal, you’re a big softie.” “Only for you.”

“So either don’t tell me your secrets or don’t make me fall in love with you. Because once I fall in, even death can’t make me fall out.”

“That’s where people go when they need to feel better: home.” “But your home is in New York.” “Home can be a person, too. That’s what you are for me.”