Falling for My Enemy (Dirty Martini Running Club, #2)

by Claire Kingsley

She popped up everywhere with her long-winded attacks on my work.

But Angry Hot Librarian in the back had come after me like she had a bone to pick.

“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.” ~ Charles M. Schulz

“Thanks, I love this shirt. It’s so hard to find things that fit my chest. But I guess you’d need to have boobs to understand that problem.”

Nora: I’m all for using valid names for things, but penis is one of the world’s unsexiest words.

And that brief but powerful fantasy of ripping Hazel’s shirt off had left me feeling flustered as fuck.

At this point, we were swimming in awkward.

“Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.” ~ Oprah Winfrey

That was probably best. And I probably needed to take a break from comic books.

How long would it take before he noticed it said Norban Cash outside his office?

“When you are courting a nice girl, an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder, a second seems like an hour. That’s relativity.” ~ Albert Einstein

It was the first time she’d ever really, truly smiled at me, and it hit me like a blow to the chest. I was so fucked.

Really, Hazel? Copy paper does it for you now?

“Books are finite, sexual encounters are finite, but the desire to read and to fuck is infinite.” ~ Roberto Bolaño

I remain skeptical about the math skills of urban scavenger birds.”

“In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.” ~Albert Schweitzer

“Look man, I don’t know what this is about or why you think Hazel needs someone to play scary dad on her behalf.

You wouldn’t think finding your keys in the fridge would be a possibility, but once I’d put my phone in the freezer, so you never knew with me.

of four women wearing the gaudiest outfits I’d ever seen. Bedazzled Bitches? Who in their right mind had thought that was a good idea?