In the Gray Quotes

“stop setting your feelings aside to make room for people who wouldn’t think twice about yours.”
― B.B. Reid, In the Gray

“If you don’t want me to follow you into fire, then don’t run into fire.”
― B.B. Reid, In the Gray

“I guarded my loyalty…for you. I kept my heart hard as stone so that when the day came I found the woman I couldn’t hold any of that back for, I’d know without a doubt that I’d found the one.”
― B.B. Reid, In the Gray

“The gray. The sliver of space between right and wrong, knowing and not knowing, salvation and damnation—between hope for a future and the calamity of us.”
― B.B. Reid, In the Gray

“I’m going to get my water back,” he answered between pecks. A bolt of alarm shot down my spine”
― B.B. Reid, In the Gray

“I guess I kind of had since that break-in had been one-hundred-percent staged. While Atlas was spilling her guts to me over dinner, I’d sent Britain and his crew to ransack her room so that I could bring her sexy ass home with me without all the kicking and screaming of actually kidnapping her. I still couldn’t believe how flawlessly I’d pulled it off.”
― B.B. Reid, In the Gray

“I’d heard disobedient bitches had the best pussy around, and I needed hers in the worst way.”
― B.B. Reid, In the Gray

“I didn’t do missionary, but Atlas had me considering slow-stroking her pussy while I stared deep into her eyes on some sucker-for-love shit.”
― B.B. Reid, In the Gray

“If you want me to believe you don’t want to be fucked,” he told me in a tone that promised sex, “you’re going to have to lie better than that.” I had two warring reactions to that. My skin turned cold with dread, but my pussy… It opened like a flower that answered only to him.”
― B.B. Reid, In the Gray

“I want to give you shelter and be your peace. I want to take care of you, Dream. I want to be yours. I won’t ask if you like me too because I don’t waste time with stupid questions. Instead, I’ll only ask one.” I held my breath and waited even though I already knew what his question—and what my answer—would be. “Can I be your boyfriend, Atlas Ilana Beck?”
― B.B. Reid, In the Gray

“I’d miss you,” he told me. “And if you left, I’d follow you. There’s nowhere else I’d rather be than on your bumper, Dream.”
― B.B. Reid, In the Gray

“Fuck, I know, I know, but I need you to look at me,” he pleaded gently. “Can you do that?” I nodded, but I still didn’t lift my head. I stayed put where I knew I was safe from the world. “Come on, baby. Let me see those pretty brown eyes.”
― B.B. Reid, In the Gray

“Let me know if you have any more trouble,” I told her quietly. And then, not so subtly, I squeezed her ass, earning a glare from her. “It doesn’t matter how small; I want you to come and get me. It doesn’t even need to be work-related. Anything you need, and Daddy will make it happen. And Atlas?” I gripped her chin when her stubborn ass looked away. “Only me.”
― B.B. Reid, In the Gray

“You demand things from me I’m not ready to give, but you’re so good at making me want them too—so much sometimes that nothing else matters. But then…then you make me feel like a fool for feeling that way, and I’m lost all over again. I know what I said before, but I lied, Owen. I don’t think I can give you my body without giving you my heart too.” Rowdy was still as if bracing himself for what I would say next. “But you said it yourself. You’re not interested in that part of me, and I couldn’t trust you with it even if you were.”
― B.B. Reid, In the Gray

“Above all else, guard your heart,” I recited to Rowdy’s bent head. I could have sworn he stiffened as if he knew what I’d say next. “For everything you do flows from it.”
― B.B. Reid, In the Gray

“I finally allowed myself to meet his gaze, letting him see my sincerity as I said, “I’m sorry.”
― B.B. Reid, In the Gray

“Roc had rich brown skin, long lashes, chestnut eyes, a thick patch of hair adorning his chin, a thin mustache and beauty mark above his thick lips, and enough waves in his close-cut hair to make you seasick.”
― B.B. Reid, In the Gray

“Initially, I’d only been trying to get her to bust it open for me, but then she tried to kill me and everything changed. I couldn’t stop replaying how she looked standing on that table, full of jealous rage, and wielding a golf club meant to end me.”
― B.B. Reid, In the Gray

“From the moment she’d tried to kill me in a jealous rage three nights ago, I decided I was ready for a girlfriend, and I wanted that girl to be Dream.”
― B.B. Reid, In the Gray

“I didn’t say we were dating.” He shrugged as he pulled out his phone and started typing. “You told Earl I was your girl.” He glanced up at me briefly before returning his gaze to his phone to finish texting. “I’m dating your pussy, Atlas. I’m not dating you.”
― B.B. Reid, In the Gray

“This was not the time to reveal I’d been stalking her pretty ass every chance I got. Some nights I even slept in the room next to hers just to make sure no one fucked with her.”
― B.B. Reid, In the Gray

“I know what I said before, but I lied, Owen. I don’t think I can give you my body without giving you my heart too.” Rowdy was still as if bracing himself for what I would say next. “But you said it yourself. You’re not interested in that part of me, and I couldn’t trust you with it even if you were.”
― B.B. Reid, In the Gray

“That’s your problem, Owen. You think physical pain is the only hurt there is. It’s not even the kind that cuts deepest. You’d know that if you knew how to care for anyone but yourself.”
― B.B. Reid, In the Gray

“Whatever the truth is, Atlas, know that she was wrong. You are enough. Don’t ever let anyone tell you differently.”
― B.B. Reid, In the Gray

“They said nothing worth having was ever easy.”
― B.B. Reid, In the Gray

“Kissing, however, was completely fucking unnecessary. It always felt like I was sending a message I didn’t mean or making promises I didn’t intend to keep.”
― B.B. Reid, In the Gray

“I knew Black didn’t crack, but she couldn’t be older than sixteen if she were a day.”
― B.B. Reid, In the Gray

“Going legit had its ups and downs, but it beat being carried by six or judged by twelve.”
― B.B. Reid, In the Gray

“One of them was a child’s hand gripping the forefinger of a much larger one with a date under the wreath of sunflowers adorning the child’s wrist. Written across his chest in Old English were the words, “Only Halo Can Judge Me,”
― B.B. Reid, In the Gray