Sway (Landry Family, #1)

by Adriana Locke

There's something completely intoxicating about being treated like a lady and manners are the best foreplay.

Her body is curvy perfection,

fear is a powerful emotion, maybe the most powerful of all,

“My God. Those men have genetics that need reproduced and I volunteer for the job.”

“What does happy look like to you?” You. Feeling like I feel when you look at me. Having this little ball of giddiness when I see you smile, this level of comfort that I haven’t felt with a man before.

“It looks like fall afternoons on a porch swing, summer afternoons with a glass of lemonade by a pool. Happy looks like late night talks under a pile of blankets with a man that loves me like I love him.”

"I think you're still in the quasi-winery. I know I would be. Hell, I kind of am and I haven't even been properly graped."

“I just don’t need a knight in shining armor. In my world,” she says, pausing, “I am the knight. I’m the one that saves the day.” “I can respect that. Just let me be the stallion you ride in on.”

“It’s hard to believe in yourself when you aren’t sure you’ve ever accomplished anything on your own.”

Stupidity is the first thing I’ve found that doesn’t look good on you.”

Once you’ve been burned by someone, the scars never leave. They become more sensitive to the same type of fire that got you once, tingling when you get too close to the heat.

You sound like a guy that is getting his priorities together. Making your girl feel special should be the first thing you do in your day. I mean, if you lose her, what do you have left?” He gets it.

She's all that exists in the world right now and I want to be so far into her, lose myself so deeply into her, that it takes an act of God to separate us.

“Speak as you find. And, well, you’re like family now, kind of. And we protect each other. We don’t let each other get bullied and that’s what I felt like they were doing—getting information they could use against you.”

“Supporting someone and believing in them are two different things,

I hold her tight, this precious girl that dropped into my life with a tray of champagne. She has no idea what she means to me or that I need her every minute of every day.

I want him to grow up confident, knowing everything is okay. Not worrying about adult problems until he’s an adult, and if I can keep him from it then, I know I will.

“Baseball is one big analogy for life.”