Off Base Quotes

“A virgin SEAL—” “Shut up.” He shoved Pike’s shoulder. Pike neatly sidestepped his grip. “I’m just saying, you must be rarer than a fucking unicorn. I thought you guys got all the ass—of any gender—you wanted.” “Hus—”
― Annabeth Albert, Off Base

“I’m falling in love with you. That’s what I should have said before I left.” Pike kept stroking Zack’s face. “I was a coward too. I needed you to know that, but I was scared of it not being enough—” “It is.”
― Annabeth Albert, Off Base

“Mr. Big Bad Virgin SEAL. Wow.”
― Annabeth Albert, Off Base

“Chief Weber would be stopping by too, to “lay eyeballs” on him. Fuck.”
― Annabeth Albert, Off Base

“Yeah, that night hadn’t turned out so bad after all, starting them on the road that led straight to here.”
― Annabeth Albert, Off Base

“will bodily harm his command if they don’t help him. I don’t care if they’re SEALs. He’s my guy, and I’m not going to let them hurt him further.”
― Annabeth Albert, Off Base

“Nothing sucks worse than not being able to talk about the best thing in your life.”
― Annabeth Albert, Off Base

“He had a healthy fear of falling, an innate knowledge of what a bullet could do, but he hadn’t thought a single word could end him. But here he was, dying as his heart walked out of this place with Pike.”
― Annabeth Albert, Off Base

“I think I’m falling in love with you. You mean everything to me. When you look at me, I feel invincible. Don’t give up. Whatever you do, don’t give up. Believe that I can make this right.”
― Annabeth Albert, Off Base

“But you’re not going to fight for me. Not going to keep me.”
― Annabeth Albert, Off Base

“Always gonna need you.” Zack’s lips were against Pike’s ear. “Always.”
― Annabeth Albert, Off Base

“You. Are. Not. A. Distraction.” Zack toppled Pike backward, loomed over him. “You’re my everything. And I won’t let them have you. Won’t them ruin this.”
― Annabeth Albert, Off Base

“Not gonna lie, I expected him to drive you batshit crazy, but then today you kept looking at him like he invented sunshine.”
― Annabeth Albert, Off Base

“The world was waiting on them, but whatever was coming, it could wait. Just a little more time, right here with his guy, heart still recovering from the marathon of feelings and sensations.”
― Annabeth Albert, Off Base

“The men are the heart of the ship. Each one has a story.”
― Annabeth Albert, Off Base

“want to know your story. I want to be more than a footnote to this Chapter of your life. I want to write our story together.”
― Annabeth Albert, Off Base

“I’m…not sure.” God, he hated admitting that. Having any sort of weakness pricked at him like a splinter he couldn’t get out.”
― Annabeth Albert, Off Base

“Not being in control left him with that same helpless feeling he got around Danny or Cobb, and no way did he want to feel that way around Pike.”
― Annabeth Albert, Off Base

“just know that I’m so tired of hating myself every second of every day, and when I’m around you, I don’t hate me so much. I’ve spent the last year trying to make sense of me, but when I’m around you, it feels like the answer might actually be out there.”
― Annabeth Albert, Off Base

“In his fantasies he most certainly did not have a gag reflex.”
― Annabeth Albert, Off Base

“Hello, friend zone, my old pal, how I’ve missed you never.”
― Annabeth Albert, Off Base

“Smooth. Hot. Pike. He was inside someone else. The trust that symbolized humbled him like nothing else ever had. He slid his fingers back and forth, shivers racing through him at the thought of doing that same motion with his cock. “Curve...your”
― Annabeth Albert, Off Base