Cross Quotes

“Depend on a man to feed you, and you give him the power to starve you.”
― Shantel Tessier, Cross

“Men aren’t as complicated as women seem to think. If we want you, you’ll know. Even the ones who try to act all hard are easy to catch.”
― Shantel Tessier, Cross

“I don’t care what any man tells you. We know pretty quickly if we’re going to let you go or want you to stick around.”
― Shantel Tessier, Cross

“This woman is my damnation. I’ve always known I was going to hell; now I know it’ll be her who sends me there. Because I will do absolutely anything for her. She doesn’t even have to ask.”
― Shantel Tessier, Cross

“I’m in love with you. And when a King finds his queen, he’s one hundred percent committed.”
― Shantel Tessier, Cross

“A sinner is a man who takes what he wants without question. I want her. Right now. Tomorrow and the next day. I need her like I need a hit that I haven’t had in weeks.”
― Shantel Tessier, Cross

“She’s my altar, where I kneel and repent for all the sins I’ve committed over the years.”
― Shantel Tessier, Cross

“They say love should be your shelter from the storm, but that’s not even close to what I feel for Alexa. She’s everything I was taught to need. Crave. She’s my altar, where I kneel and repent for all the sins I’ve committed over the years. The souls I’ve taken.”
― Shantel Tessier, Cross

“The road to being a King is paved with dead bodies. Eventually, our sins will catch up with us and demand a payment for all the carnage we leave behind. They can have my Kingdom, but they will never touch my Queen. I will set fire to the world and watch it all burn, me included, before I let her pay for my sins.”
― Shantel Tessier, Cross

“Grave asked me if I loved you.”

My eyes widen. “Why would he ask you that?”

“I didn’t get to answer him. April stormed in.” He doesn’t answer my question.

“That’s a good thing,” I breathe.

“I was going to say yes.”

I swallow nervously. He shifts onto his left forearm and looks down at me. His right hand cups my cheek. “I didn’t realize it until this morning. When I received the call that your bar was on fire. For a moment, I forgot you were standing in my bathroom.” His eyes search mine. “I understood what I’d be losing. If someone hurt you.” His hand drops to my chest, and he places his palm on my skin, feeling my heart race. “If someone took you from me. Alexa … I don’t need you to feel the same way.” He gives me a smile as if he won a bet. “But I want you to understand that …” He leans down and tenderly kisses my parted lips. “I’m in love with you. And when a King finds his queen, he’s one hundred percent committed.” Pulling away, he cups my face.

I open my mouth, but his lips find mine again, and before I know it, he’s back on top of me. I’m desperate for him.

His touch.

His words.

His love.

I never thought it would feel like this. Like I’m the only woman in the world. Nothing before him ever mattered.”
― Shantel Tessier, Cross

“Why is us such a hard concept for you to comprehend?” he snaps in my face.

I shove his chest, but he doesn’t even sway. “Fucking doesn’t mean us. You’re lying to him.”

He moves both of his hands into my hair, grabbing a handful, forcing my head back so I have to look up at him. “Why is it so hard to comprehend that I want more from you than just your body?”

His words make me pause. My eyes search his, looking for any indication he’s lying. I wait for him to laugh, but instead, he licks his lips and steps in closer to me. His body presses into mine while his grip loosens. “Cross …”

“I’m serious about you. About us.” He runs his hands through my hair. “So, if you don’t want that, I’ll let you leave. But just know I want you to stay.”

I ignore the butterflies in my stomach that he wants more than just a fuck. I’ve had the same thoughts, but I’ve refused to try to decipher them. But I’ve been doing this a lot lately—jumping without thinking twice. That’s how I ended up with Kink. And the same way I added Jasmine to Lucky’s. Why not do the same with him? He told me that timing was rarely on our side. And that seems to continue to prove true. “I want to stay,” I say softly. The more I learn about Cross, the more I can’t walk away. He’s exactly what I thought he would be—all consuming.

Letting go of my face, he runs his knuckles down over my neck, feeling my pulse race. “I was lying,” he whispers, his free hand wrapping around my back, holding me in place.

My stomach drops. He was baiting me to see how I felt just so he could say it’s over.

A slow smile spreads across his handsome face. “I wasn’t going to let you leave.” Then his lips are on mine. Desperately, demanding all of my attention.

“Don’t you have to go to work?” I ask, not wanting to keep him, knowing he has a lot to do. The poor guy never stops.

“I can be late,” he answers against my lips.

I jump up into his arms and wrap my legs around his waist, suddenly a little less tired. Nothing a Monster drink can’t fix later. He starts walking up to his room and then we’re on his bed. Clothes are being ripped off.”
― Shantel Tessier, Cross

“Our fathers knew us as weak little boys. Now at twenty-six, the world knows us as Titan, Bones, Cross, and Grave. Each one of us earned our nickname at different times in our life for various reasons. None of them good. People bow to us because we fucking earned it, not because our fathers gave it to us. We’re nothing like them. We’re worse. We just choose not to hide who we are. No, we parade it around Las Vegas in broad daylight.”
― Shantel Tessier, Cross

“A Queen protects her King. She stands in front of him because she knows he’s got her back.”
― Shantel Tessier, Cross

“They are having a girls’ night—whatever that consists of—and I plan on crashing it and taking her home.”
― Shantel Tessier, Cross

“IT’S A QUARTER till three when I pull up to her bar. Hers is the only car left in the parking lot. Getting out of mine, I walk up to the back door and enter. Grinding my teeth, I’m irritated that she leaves it unlocked. That’s not fucking safe. I walk down the long hallway and come to a stop when I see her standing behind the bar, cleaning it off with a towel, softly humming to herself. She turns and jumps, letting out a scream when she spots me. “Jesus, Cross.” Her hand goes to her chest. “What the fuck are you doing? Creeping?” “Well, if you’d lock your door …” “Don’t start with me.” She slaps the towel on the bar. “I’m not in the mood.” Then she disappears into the cooler.”
― Shantel Tessier, Cross

“Anyway,” she goes on. “I tried to repay you …” I snort at that statement. “The next day, you showed up with a two-hundred-thousand-dollar car.” A woman I had only met the night before bought me a car. I thought she was out of her mind. I still think that. “I told you I’d pay for the tag and insurance …” “I’m not accepting it,” I remind her. She does this often. She still has it in her garage. As though I’m just going to call her up one day and say hey, you know that Audi R8 Spyder you bought me? Yeah, I’ll take that now. “This isn’t about the car.”
― Shantel Tessier, Cross

“Haven and Alexa had taken April to the hospital. Grave ran out of there so fast we couldn’t keep up. Once we arrived at the hospital, we found out April had lost the baby.”
― Shantel Tessier, Cross

“I’m not sleeping with her,” I add quickly, watching to see how Alexa reacts. Nothing. Her eyes stayed glued to her phone. “Maybe not right this very second.” Grave snorts. Emilee smiles. “I hope you fired her then.” Nope. But it’s on my list of things to do now. She’s been acting weird ever since I told her I didn’t give a fuck who she slept with. And then add the fact that she saw me with Alexa.”
― Shantel Tessier, Cross

“Your assistant at Tit for Tat?” Emilee is the one who speaks. “She was very rude to me that one time I was looking for you.” She crosses her arms over her chest at that memory when she was trying to find the Palace suite. “She acted like I was going to fuck you right then and there in your shop when I just needed help finding Titan.” I watch Jasmine tense. She and April both know about Alexa and me. So, they think I’m fucking both of them. Why do I want to correct them? Biting my tongue, I decide now is not the time. I need to tell Grave first and not in front of everyone. After his fight, I’ll get him alone and fill him in. Grave adds, “Yeah, Rachel’s had a thing for him ever since Cross hired her.” He shakes his head with a laugh. “I told him not to fuck her, but he couldn’t resist.” Fuck! Titan’s eyes go back and forth between Alexa and me, but she’s no longer looking at me. Her eyes are back down on her cell, and she’s typing away. It better not be to fucking Mitch. “Grave …” April stands in front of him, patting his legs. “It’s none of our business who Cross gets with.” He just laughs as she tries to divert the conversation.”
― Shantel Tessier, Cross

“Ever heard of curiosity killed the cat? Well, call me a dead pussy.”
― Shantel Tessier, Cross

“I never thought it would feel like this. Like I’m the only woman in the world. Nothing before him ever mattered.”
― Shantel Tessier, Cross

“They say love should be your shelter from the storm, but that’s not even close to what I feel for Alexa. She’s everything I was taught to need. Crave.”
― Shantel Tessier, Cross

“They can have my Kingdom, but they will never touch my Queen. I will set fire to the world and watch it all burn, me included, before I let her pay for my sins.”
― Shantel Tessier, Cross

“She’s not my redemption. No, she’s my reminder that you don’t need to be saved in order to be loved.”
― Shantel Tessier, Cross

“I was that cold, lifeless body freezing to death, and Cross came along and lit my world on fire.”
― Shantel Tessier, Cross

“Alexa Jade Milner is the fire I’ve always craved and never want to put out.”
― Shantel Tessier, Cross

“Are you afraid I won’t love the real you?” “No,” I say honestly. “I’m afraid that you will.”
― Shantel Tessier, Cross

“I don’t believe a person should have a set of balls in order to do what they want,”
― Shantel Tessier, Cross

“We can be dominant and rule over men. “I’m in.”
― Shantel Tessier, Cross

“I need twenty chicken nuggets and a Bible.”
― Shantel Tessier, Cross