His Secret Quotes

“Leaving you the way I did still remains my biggest regret. Seeing how hurt you were is seared into my brain. Because you…you were everything to me. And when I lost you, I lost a part of myself.”
― Isabel Lucero, His Secret

“You can’t ask me to tell you to walk away, because I remember what it feels like to be the one left behind, and I’ve been waiting for you to come back to me for a long time. If you want me. Truly. Without reservation or fear, come to me and tell me, and I’ll be waiting.”
― Isabel Lucero, His Secret

“I was thinking about how good it might be to have you on your knees”
― Isabel Lucero, His Secret

“Everything,” he replies with a wide smile. “I want to do everything with you.”
― Isabel Lucero, His Secret

“Selfishness overpowers everything, and I’m not afraid to admit that I’m selfish enough to keep this up—because he is mine. He always has been. She’s just been borrowing him.”
― Isabel Lucero, His Secret

“My heart is in my throat, beating rapidly as my body heats up. Matías is turning me on through texts while I worry about my wife coming out of the bathroom to try to sleep with me.”
― Isabel Lucero, His Secret

“I feel so overcome with emotion, and I don’t know why. I want to say things I have no right to say. I want to cry and beg for his forgiveness for how I treated him before. My head is all over the place.”
― Isabel Lucero, His Secret

“Matías gives him a tight grin. “No worries. We’ll be in room thirteen if you’re interested in seeing what you can’t have.” He takes my hand and leads me down the hall to door number thirteen. My chest vibrates with excitement. At his claim. At his authority. At him telling this man he can watch us.”
― Isabel Lucero, His Secret

“Like the good husband that I am, I check in with my wife before I head to a sex club with the guy I’ve been sleeping with. I scoff at myself. Disappointed, and yet, not willing to stop.”
― Isabel Lucero, His Secret

“So I decide, from here on out, I’ll be detached. Maybe it’ll save me from future heartbreak. I won’t allow this to happen again. I clearly can’t trust anyone. Love means nothing. Apparently you can say you love someone and still hurt them beyond repair.”
― Isabel Lucero, His Secret

“Walking away from him split me apart. My heart has been living without a piece of it for years, because that piece resides in him. I’m married. I’m married.”
― Isabel Lucero, His Secret

“I don’t know what’s possible between us. At times I feel like maybe nothing, but at others, I hope for the most incredible future. The two thoughts have been at war in my mind for a long time.”
― Isabel Lucero, His Secret

“I ignored you because the alternative is to touch you. To hold you. To steal you away and bring you up here so I can have my way with you. I had to ignore you, because my thoughts were running away with fantasies and ideas I’m not welcome to. I ignored you to keep from making you do something you might regret.”
― Isabel Lucero, His Secret

“I hit reply and attach the itinerary, ready to send it with only that, but I hesitate. The devil on my shoulder whispers in my ear, and there’s no angel on the other side to counter the thoughts. It’s reckless, wrong, and a terrible idea. He’s married. I’m his boss. It’s a disaster waiting to happen. I begin typing.”
― Isabel Lucero, His Secret

“My heart recognizes that he’s the piece that’s been gone. It would be easy to fall in love with him all over again, if the circumstances were right.”
― Isabel Lucero, His Secret

“Love is a strange thing. It’s consuming, yes. Sometimes it’s blind and intoxicating. Other times it’s freeing.”
― Isabel Lucero, His Secret

“I look away, unable to keep eye contact any longer. He was right. We shouldn’t be trying to be friends. Or be left alone together.”
― Isabel Lucero, His Secret

“I was thinking about whether or not you know what it’s like to be with a man. Not a college kid still learning what he likes, but a man who knows what he’s doing. A man who could open your world to things you haven’t thought about.”
― Isabel Lucero, His Secret

“He folds his left arm on the table, the fingers on his right hand brushing against his bottom lip. “I was thinking about whether or not you’d obey me, allowing me to use you for my pleasure before I gave you yours.”
― Isabel Lucero, His Secret

“I swallow, thinking about how my wife is at home waiting for me, but the man I once loved is sitting in front of me baiting me into a question that will no doubt flip my world upside down.”
― Isabel Lucero, His Secret

“Adrian Kennedy was my first love—and my first heartbreak. Even saying that makes it sound minimal. Like it was puppy love and a normal breakup. It wasn’t.”
― Isabel Lucero, His Secret

“He smirks. “Good. Glad I wasn’t alone in fantasyland.” Fidgeting with my fingers, I say, “What now?” “Everything,” he replies with a wide smile. “I want to do everything with you.”
― Isabel Lucero, His Secret

“I can take you to a club. It’s not in town, and it caters to those of us in the alphabet mafia.” He chokes on a laugh. “The what?” “Alphabet mafia. LGBTQIA. The alphabet.”
― Isabel Lucero, His Secret

“We can’t choose our parents.” “No, but you can choose your family. You can find people who will accept and love you regardless, and you make a point to keep them close.”
― Isabel Lucero, His Secret