Rock Wedding Quotes

“That didn’t mean she didn’t still fear loneliness. She always would, the scar too old and too deeply set into her psyche—but she was no longer held hostage to her need.”
― Nalini Singh, Rock Wedding

“Sarah loved Abe with a devotion that terrified her. She knew he didn’t love her back.”
― Nalini Singh, Rock Wedding

“I thought then that I could never love you more… but I do.” Fighting the fear that clawed at her, trying to hold her back, she said, “The man you are now, he’s the man I dreamed of all my life.” Shuddering, Abe buried his face in her neck. He didn’t speak for several long minutes, his breath jagged. “Abe?” She put her hand on the back of his head… and she realized he was trying not to cry. This big, strong man was struggling not to cry because she’d told him she loved him. She’d never been that important to anyone. Her own tears began to fall again. He kissed her when he raised his head, his thumb stroking over her cheek. And he kissed her and he kissed her. She felt her bones liquefying under his touch, and when he lowered his hand to between her thighs, she shuddered and held on to him as he played her body like a fine instrument. Pleasure rose in a heavy wave.”
― Nalini Singh, Rock Wedding

“Digging into the pancakes in the interim, Sarah moaned. “These are so good.” Abe stared at her mouth. “Stop making those sounds or you won’t get to finish the stack.”
― Nalini Singh, Rock Wedding

“You are so ridiculously hot,” she said, running her hands down his chest. “Stop it.” Grinning, he dipped his head to take a slow, smoky burn of a kiss. “Sweetheart, you annihilate me in the hotness stakes.” His eyes went to her hair, her curls wild around her head. “I fucking love everything about you.”
― Nalini Singh, Rock Wedding

“she had sticky fingers when he pulled up at the grocery store where they planned to quickly pick up a few other items. “Do you have a bottle of water?” She wiggled the fingers of her right hand at him. His eyes turned dark, intense. Gripping her wrist with a gentle but firm hand, Abe tugged her fingers to his mouth and sucked in a finger, swirling his tongue around it to clean off the caramel. Sarah whimpered. “There,” he murmured after he’d patiently and calmly cleaned off each and every one of her fingers, his eyes locked with her own the entire time. “Done.”
― Nalini Singh, Rock Wedding

“Abe spoke against her ear, the rumble of his voice cascading a thousand memories over her. “I haven’t been with anyone else since that day in your kitchen.” He drew back, thrust impossibly deeper. “You’re in my blood, Sarah.” Nails digging into his back, she locked her mouth to his. She couldn’t listen to his words, couldn’t start rebuilding dreams that had splintered forever. This was a night out of time. After it ended, she had to put herself back together and figure out how to get over Abe Bellamy all over again.”
― Nalini Singh, Rock Wedding

“Let go of my waist,” she muttered to Abe at the same time. “Make me,” said the man holding her prisoner.”
― Nalini Singh, Rock Wedding

“Delighted for her, Sarah stepped back so Kit, too, could hug the bride. She ended up bumping straight into the hard wall of muscle that was her ex-husband. Who hooked an arm around her waist before she could move away. “You look edible,” he murmured, his breath brushing her sensitive earlobe. Which Abe knew all about.”
― Nalini Singh, Rock Wedding

“She told herself it was her imagination, but her tingling skin and flushed face didn’t think so; then she reached the top of the stairs and turned… and caught him in the act. “Stop it,” she hissed under her breath. His response was a grin, his eyes traveling slowly up her body—and lingering on every curve along the way. Her thighs clenched, her body damp in that dark, secret place only Abe knew exactly how to touch. “I’m a red-blooded man, Sarah,” he said when he finally reached her eyes, “and, sweetheart, you have one hell of an ass.”
― Nalini Singh, Rock Wedding

“No way in hell was he letting some other man try to pick her up. Abe would be the only one doing any seducing, putting in motion his plan to win back his wife. He wasn’t going to fuck up. Not this time.”
― Nalini Singh, Rock Wedding

“He finally got it: he was in charge of whether or not he lived a life that made him happy.”
― Nalini Singh, Rock Wedding

“Abe wanted to grab on to that hope, use it to feed his hunger to fix the worst mistake of his life, but he knew the hope didn’t belong to him. Sarah had told him to go. He had no right to challenge her decision, to fight to be allowed back in. He’d given up that right the day he’d lied to protect himself. The day he’d told her he didn’t love her.”
― Nalini Singh, Rock Wedding

“The song he sang was about a sparrow with a broken wing, and it fucking tore Abe’s heart right out of his chest, left it bleeding on the floor.”
― Nalini Singh, Rock Wedding

“These Bellamy men, when they love, they go all in. And my poor Gregory, he couldn’t survive losing his baby girl. It was the helplessness that got to him—not being able to fight her dragons for her, slay them.”
― Nalini Singh, Rock Wedding

“Jeremy Vance had rescued a broken bird, expecting her to stay broken. But of course Sarah hadn’t been willing to be frozen in time.”
― Nalini Singh, Rock Wedding

“Abe grinned as Noah went in for the kiss. He'd expected laughing passion or maybe a raw lip-lock, but his hands cradling Kit's face, the guitarist kissed his new wife with a tenderness that had every single woman in the room sighing and all but melting into the floor.

Abe shook his head. "He really doesn't give a flying you-know-what about his bad-boy image does he?" he said to David.

David shot him a laughing look, his golden-brown eyes shining. with happiness for a friend who'd found his way out of the darkness that had haunted him for so long. "Says the man holding a baby and avoiding the F word.”
― Nalini Singh, Rock Wedding