First Touch Quotes

“And then sometimes, rarely, in the middle of the night, he’d be sweet. Pulling me into his lap, kissing me, caressing me. Letting me fly but anchoring me with his eyes. Speaking words he’d never dare say in the light of day.”
― Laurelin Paige, First Touch

“That was the funny thing about smiles--if you flashed the right one, no one knew there was more going on inside.”
― Laurelin Paige, First Touch

“His weakness was me. He wanted me and he hated that maybe as much as I hated him.”
― Laurelin Paige, First Touch

“Why can’t we worry about each other?”
― Laurelin Paige, First Touch

“I don’t know, Reeve. Because you do a lot of talking, and all I hear are mixed messages.”
“I’m unmixing them now. Listen. This is the one I want you to hear.”
― Laurelin Paige, First Touch

“A flood of inadequacy poured over me, a feeling of I-don’t-belong, but if not here, then where? The room began to close in around me, blanketing me with acute heaviness.”
― Laurelin Paige, First Touch

“It was a kiss that took—took my desire, took my passion, took my will.”
― Laurelin Paige, First Touch

“I’m an awful host,” he said eventually. “I should tell you to make yourself at home, but all I care about is making myself at home inside you.”
― Laurelin Paige, First Touch

“The only thing shittier than the way men treated a pretty woman was the way women did.”
― Laurelin Paige, First Touch

“Even in my thoughts, he watched me.”
― Laurelin Paige, First Touch

“I’m trying. I’m going to keep trying with you.”
― Laurelin Paige, First Touch

“He had so much control over me, so much power to have me this close to destruction so quickly. I was exposed. Raw and vulnerable. Caught off guard by how easily he annihilated me each and every time. It scared me.”
― Laurelin Paige, First Touch

“Now the door was open. Now one of us just had to walk through it.”
― Laurelin Paige, First Touch

“I can’t figure you out, Emily.” His words were tight yet even. “I don’t know if I like you or if I just want to fuck you.”
― Laurelin Paige, First Touch

“I understood exactly what it was to want to change. To try to change. To find it impossible.”
― Laurelin Paige, First Touch

“No,” I told him. “You tell me what I want. That’s what I want.”
― Laurelin Paige, First Touch

“He’s a rich, powerful man. Rich, powerful men get away with things all the time. It’s the law of capitalism. It’s especially an issue when those rich, powerful men have ties to men who are richer and more powerful.”
― Laurelin Paige, First Touch

“I was here because this was who I was—a strong, independent woman with distinct wants and needs that were only met when I submitted to a man.”
― Laurelin Paige, First Touch

“He was always rough. Always raw. He fucked me however he wanted.”
― Laurelin Paige, First Touch

“What do you want? How do you want it? I never felt like I had a good answer. For the first time, I realized why. Because what I wanted was to not be asked the question.”
― Laurelin Paige, First Touch

“They were the men who liked to fuck, but on their terms. They were the men who liked giving gifts and praise almost as much as they liked taking them away. They were the men who liked to hurt. To humiliate. Manipulate. They left bruises. They left scars. They were the men that induced fear. The men who debased and defiled.”
― Laurelin Paige, First Touch

“Feet shuffled closer then halted when Reeve said, “Touch her, I’ll break your neck.”
― Laurelin Paige, First Touch

“A glance at his crotch gave me the slightest smidgeon of satisfaction. He was unmistakably hard. He might be punishing me, but he was punishing himself too.”
― Laurelin Paige, First Touch

“all I hear are mixed messages.” “I’m unmixing them now. Listen. This is the one I want you to hear.”
― Laurelin Paige, First Touch

“After a while – minutes, hours, I didn’t know – the reprieve tapered off and half-ideas slipped in with the conviction of plans. Promises. Reeve’s cousins. His guest room. Get to his ranch. His staff. The common thread always him. He was my only chance for finding out what happened to Amber. He might not have all the answers, but he had some.
By the time I turned the Jag toward his house, he was pulling me in other ways. Distraction. Comfort. Reason. Preoccupation. He was the source of everything I needed now.
The path to closure, an asylum for pain, a place to find truth, a place to hide.
For good or bad, all roads led back to him. Perhaps that’s what it meant to really be his.”
― Laurelin Paige, First Touch

“The problem with men who are actually a threat is that you don’t ever find out how unsafe they are until it’s too late”
― Laurelin Paige, First Touch

“But his eyes caught me. There was something I recognized in them—a sorrow or a longing that was both gripping and haunting. I saw myself in those”
― Laurelin Paige, First Touch

“– Az igazán veszélyes férfiakkal azonban az a baj, hogy mire rájössz, mennyire veszélyesek, már késő.”
― Laurelin Paige, First Touch

“Forrt a vérem. Epekedtem. Sóvárogtam. Minden akaraterőmre szükségem volt, hogy ne kezdjek vonaglani a keze alatt. Hogy ne kezdjek könyörögni a … miért is? Még többért. Csak erre tudtam gondolni. Többet akartam.”
― Laurelin Paige, First Touch

“Ez a kilátás sokkal ideillőbb volt. Ez lapult a csillogás külső felszíne alatt – végtelen sötétség. Olyan könnyen beleolvadhatnék, átölelhetném, benne élhetnék abban a reményben, hogy egyszer csak áttör rajta a csillagfény. De tapasztalatból tudtam, hogy olykor – legtöbbször – a fény sosem tör át.”
― Laurelin Paige, First Touch