Owned by Fate Quotes

“I love you so badly I could get lost in it and never find my way back out.”
― Tessa Bailey, Owned by Fate

“I’m going to love teaching you some patience, sweetheart. You don’t know what dying means yet. You’ll know when you’ve come for my mouth so many times, you’d sell your soul to be filled.”
― Tessa Bailey, Owned by Fate

“If I sit across from you much longer, I’m going to pull you astride my lap and kiss your superbly formed mouth until you soak straight through my pants.” He pulled back just enough to watch redness suffuse her cheeks. “It wouldn’t take long, sweetheart. I can do amazing things with my tongue.”
― Tessa Bailey, Owned by Fate

“She’d wanted to be free, thought it was the only way to be happy, when happiness was belonging to Jonah.”
― Tessa Bailey, Owned by Fate

“Really, his question had been more of a mission statement, of which she was the mission.”
― Tessa Bailey, Owned by Fate

“Yes. This was it. It had to be. He was setting her free of this prison she’d been locked in for weeks. If she helped him, he would release his hold on her. This was the solution. Finally. Right?”
― Tessa Bailey, Owned by Fate

“She wanted, craved Jonah. He’d grabbed hold of her libido and shaken it like a snow globe.”
― Tessa Bailey, Owned by Fate

“She always used to say if we believed in what we were doing, then she’d double that belief.”
― Tessa Bailey, Owned by Fate

“I just keep asking myself how your mother would feel about all this.”
― Tessa Bailey, Owned by Fate

“A phone call or showing up with cupcakes on his doorstep would not suffice. Not by a long shot. Deeds not words.”
― Tessa Bailey, Owned by Fate

“the girl who’d made him feel less than at every turn, when in reality, he was one of the best people she’d ever known.”
― Tessa Bailey, Owned by Fate

“What is with you and matching people up with celebrities?”
― Tessa Bailey, Owned by Fate

“Someone has to feed you, old man.” Her father held up a hardcover book. “I feast on words, son. They alone sustain me.”
― Tessa Bailey, Owned by Fate

“What hand did you win with?” He looked amused by her question. “A straight.” Caroline absorbed that with a reluctant smile. “I bet you find something funny about financing a BDSM club with a straight.”
― Tessa Bailey, Owned by Fate

“Is it true you won this place in a high-stakes poker game?”
― Tessa Bailey, Owned by Fate

“She wanted, craved Jonah. He’d grabbed hold of her libido and shaken it like a snow globe. Now the little particles, twisting and shimmering behind the glass, refused to settle.”
― Tessa Bailey, Owned by Fate

“Yet another person who wanted to keep any reminder of him locked away, never to be spoken of again. As if he were less than. Unworthy of acknowledgment by her anywhere but in the dark.”
― Tessa Bailey, Owned by Fate

“Jonah Briggs,”
― Tessa Bailey, Owned by Fate

“Caroline Preston.”
― Tessa Bailey, Owned by Fate

“That hot, throbbing feeling. The one between your legs. I know it’s there, sweetheart, and it needs me.” He nipped at the inside of her arm. “Come with me now and I’ll bring it screaming out of you.”
― Tessa Bailey, Owned by Fate

“I don’t understand you, Caroline. You seemed so cautious and level-headed, then you follow me in here, knowing I want to fucking debauch you.” His mouth brushed over hers, and he groaned. “I have a weakness for inconsistencies.”
― Tessa Bailey, Owned by Fate

“she’d come here to hate this place, hadn’t she? What better way to succeed than getting a front-row seat?”
― Tessa Bailey, Owned by Fate

“If you give me the slightest bit of encouragement, I will get you somewhere dark and rough up that mouth with mine. I’ll push those lips open and give it a better reason to pout.”
― Tessa Bailey, Owned by Fate

“There was knowledge in those eyes. Knowledge she didn’t have. A man who provided pleasure for a living. Arranged it. If given the opportunity, what would he do to her? Stop. Irrelevant.”
― Tessa Bailey, Owned by Fate

“he felt a sting in his chest at the reminder of others’ unwillingness to trust a word that came out of his mouth, simply because he owned Serve.”
― Tessa Bailey, Owned by Fate

“He’d gone rigidly hard when she’d sunk her white teeth into the lollipop. Not only because her spirit turned him on like hell but because it had felt like a transgression. She’d gone against his long-indulged wishes, and his dominant instincts made him want to chasten her for it, have that fierce spirit at his command. Not her. Not yet, anyway. “See, that was unwise. Now I’m just picturing you in a bustier.”
― Tessa Bailey, Owned by Fate

“He shouldn’t be bothering with this clearly uptight, disapproving sightseer. And yet, here he was. Trying to get her to suck a goddamn lollipop.”
― Tessa Bailey, Owned by Fate

“Jonah Briggs felt a punch of satisfaction when the woman’s eyes flashed up at him”
― Tessa Bailey, Owned by Fate

“So while her father had voted no outright, Caroline, the only other board member beside her brother, had agreed on a trial run of sorts. She wouldn’t be trying out the amenities herself. God, no. She’d be doing what she did best. Writing what she saw. They would publish a short feature about Serve in the current version of their magazine and observe the fallout. Knowing there wasn’t a chance in hell of a positive response, the situation was a win-win for her.”
― Tessa Bailey, Owned by Fate

“He’d found someone willing to bail out the magazine. A Manhattan-based publisher of lifestyle magazines wanted to revamp Preston’s, combining finance with more exotic, adventurous themes directed at the wealthy. BDSM included.”
― Tessa Bailey, Owned by Fate