It Takes Two to Tumble (Seducing the Sedgwicks, #1)

by Cat Sebastian

Captain Dacre’s eyes were a pretty blue, and Ben rather wished they weren’t.

Neat categories of valid relationships that everyone understood, phrases of belonging that could be etched concisely onto tombstones:

He genuinely didn’t know, had indeed deliberately avoided thinking about what it might mean to find love and companionship and desire all in the same person, because to form that thought would mean to acknowledge a future he would never have.

He was handsome, Ben supposed, if you liked angry men, which Ben wouldn’t have thought he did.

Ben supposed that blithe indifference to everyone’s well-being other than one’s own let a man sleep well at night.

He felt that this would be irrevocable, that this next hour or so would either burn every bridge he hadn’t yet destroyed, or build new ones to places he hadn’t ever been.

Phillip felt that he was standing at a dizzying height, looking at the world beneath him.