The Greatest Risk Quotes

“Be strong for the world, darling, if that’s what you need to be. But here, with me, you can be whatever you care to be.”
― Kristen Ashley, The Greatest Risk

“Stop being amusing,” he ordered. “I can’t. That’s me. I’m a badass, a hardass and a smartass. It is what it is and you picked me so get over it.”
― Kristen Ashley, The Greatest Risk

“My choices are nothing alcoholic, nothing alcoholic and nothing alcoholic, so who cares, honey. Just give me something wet,” Susan answered, coming to stand close to Stellan and her son. “She’s pregnant,” Harry explained to Simone. “Wow. Congrats,” Simone said to Susan with another smile. “I cried three times before getting in the car to come over here just thinking about hearing Stellan call you ‘darling’ again. In other words, like the last one, it’s gonna be a rough ride.” “Crying?” Simone asked. “Crying all the time, and my nipples were hard and hurt like heck for seven months straight, and I actually broke a window when I threw a jar of jelly through it that I couldn’t open, and that was in month five. It went downhill from there.”
― Kristen Ashley, The Greatest Risk

“I fear you’re not believing in this.” Her eyes, which had drifted closed with oncoming sleep, opened with ready alertness, like in the next instant she’d need to take flight. “How do I get my Simone to believe?” he asked in a tone where it was clear he did not expect her to answer.”
― Kristen Ashley, The Greatest Risk

“She stopped when, on the vanity by the sink she used, she saw the glossy cream box with the frosty-blue satin bow. This was sitting on top of what looked like the white linen shirt Stellan had worn at the pool party last weekend. And both of these were beside a full mug of coffee that was resting on one of those individual coffee warmers. She moved toward it and saw there was a thick-stock notecard sitting on it embossed at the top with STELLAN PETTER LANGE. Of course the man didn’t just dash something off on a scratch pad. Always class with Stellan. She smiled before she even picked the thing up. Written on it, it said, S–Come down wearing this, darling. I want you adorably fuckable. –S”
― Kristen Ashley, The Greatest Risk

“You make me laugh, honey. Even Susan, who was dead set to think you were taking me for a ride, or at the very least would put me through the emotional wringer, got over it when she saw I’d found someone who made me happy. It had not occurred to me in my life of plenty that I was missing anything, but I’ve learned I was. I started this in an attempt to make you happy. What I’m discovering is that it’s happening the other way around.”
― Kristen Ashley, The Greatest Risk

“He’d told her he’d be dismantling the fully kitted, seriously-the-bomb playroom in his house because the way he’d work her would be “in our home and in our bed.” Sixx had no idea what that meant.”
― Kristen Ashley, The Greatest Risk

“It was that he thought she was funny. God, every time she made him laugh, she felt like a god, like she’d wrought some miracle. He was happy. Happy to be with her. She’d never made anyone happy in her entire life. She was a definite smartass, so she’d had occasion to make people laugh. But it was different with Stellan. It moved her completely that she could give that to him. It was … she couldn’t describe it even in her head. It just meant everything that she could make Stellan happy. The rest, regardless of how much of it there was, and there was a lot, was frosting. Not the sex. Sex with Stellan was definitely moist, rich, delicious cake. But the rest felt like she was on a game show, and she’d jumped through all the hoops to win the million-dollar prize, and then the confetti dropped and the band played and she’d been told she’d also won the fabulous all-expenses-paid vacation to Italy, the new car and the yacht. Seriously, he looked like he looked, dressed like he dressed, fucked like he fucked … and the man could cook and he liked to cook, but mostly, he liked to cook for her.”
― Kristen Ashley, The Greatest Risk

“I’m fully aware that I’ve chosen a woman to spend my life with that is not at this point ready to offer me the same. I can wait. And honestly, Simone, if you never are, but you give me the beauty we have now, then that will make me far from unhappy.”
― Kristen Ashley, The Greatest Risk

“Sweet pussy is worth any hassle. But to earn the attention of a queen…” He curled his hand around her jaw and used it to force her to look at him. the touch was dominant, but gentle, and achingly sweet, and when he caught her eyes, he concluded, speaking every word in a way each was laced with steel, “I. Will. Do. Anything.”
“You have my attention,” she whispered.
“I have your utter devotion.”
― Kristen Ashley, The Greatest Risk

“This is, and you know it, Sixx, the only way I have even the remotest chance to win you,” he stated.
Her eyes narrowed in confusion. “What?”
“I have to go all in because if I don’t, all is lost before it’s even started.”
― Kristen Ashley, The Greatest Risk

“I don’t want to be your friend, Simone,” he told her bluntly and watched her flinch.
But he wasn’t done.
“I want to be your lover. I want to be your Master. I want to know all your secrets. I want to unravel the mystery that’s you and then help you keep it safe. I wantyou, and the way I want you is beside me, in bed, in play and in life.”
“You can’t know that,” she said softly.
“And this is something you’ll be learning about me. I do know that. I know myself. I know what I want. And when that’s identified, I get it.”
― Kristen Ashley, The Greatest Risk

“We’re not two halves that make a whole. We’re two souls who share a vital understanding.”
― Kristen Ashley, The Greatest Risk

“Is this a sleepover?”
He started down the steps. “For you it is.”
He halted in front of her as she asked, “I thought after the party we were having a conversation.”
“We are,” he confirmed. “Then we’re going to fuck, and after that, we’re going to sleep.”
― Kristen Ashley, The Greatest Risk

“Sometimes, Susie,” he said gently, “love is not about give and take. There are loves that are only about giving. And with Simone, who was born wit nothing and to protect herself carried on keeping it that way, it might be high time she had the opportunity to take all she can get.”
“Then she found the perfect man.”
― Kristen Ashley, The Greatest Risk

“You trust me, Simone,” he urged gently. “And if you do, I swear to fuck I’ll make you happy that you did.”
― Kristen Ashley, The Greatest Risk

“We’ll talk more Saturday evening,” he replied.
“And should I tell you to go fuck yourself, get up and walk out of here, and there is no Saturday evening?” she inquired.
“You have no intention of telling me to go fuck myself, sweetheart.”
― Kristen Ashley, The Greatest Risk

“He’ll go all in for you.” Aryas throwing that out there got her attention again, and she twisted toward him. He kept at her. “Stellan finds the one that’s worth it, he’ll break his back, sell his soul, work his fingers to the bone to win her and keep her.”
― Kristen Ashley, The Greatest Risk