Preferential Treatment Quotes

“Knyazhna, I did not know what love was until you took it from me. Please give me your heart back, because you already have mine. With love always, Your Mishka.”
― Heather Guerre, Preferential Treatment

“People matter more than money. Especially the people we love.”
― Heather Guerre, Preferential Treatment

“She needed the money, but her pride had some value too, and being a billionaire’s on-call sugar baby rankled a little bit. She’d always imagined herself manning the guillotine during the revolution, not jerking off the ruling the class.”
― Heather Guerre, Preferential Treatment

“Anna narrowed her eyes. Kate imagined a psychic shield around her brain, blocking Anna’s unnatural perceptiveness. Of course mind-reading wasn’t real. But it didn’t hurt to take precautions”
― Heather Guerre, Preferential Treatment

“Pride and indomitability radiated off of her like an ancient Slavic goddess. It didn’t help that the sun coming through the windows had cast her in a pool of morning light, turning her hair the color of old gold, making her eyes snap like blue flames, while she was wrapped in twisting vines and glaring at him like she’d smite him off the face of the earth, given the slightest provocation. Wary and brittle, she might have been a defeated goddess, but she was all the more dangerous for it”
― Heather Guerre, Preferential Treatment

“All the money in the world, and he couldn’t buy the one thing he wanted most.”
― Heather Guerre, Preferential Treatment

“She liked his dry humor and his protectiveness and his even his unreadable stoicism. She liked that she felt safe with him, but also unstoppably powerful. Selfishly, she liked that he wanted to give her things, and that he did so without an ounce of prickish entitlement.”
― Heather Guerre, Preferential Treatment

“I did not know what love was until you took it from me. Please give me your heart back, because you already have mine. With love always, Your Mishka.”
― Heather Guerre, Preferential Treatment

“It couldn’t be. Love was supposed to be grand and poetic and magical, and all Mikhail felt was a base need—something like hunger or thirst. It was primal and simplistic and far too straightforward to be love.”
― Heather Guerre, Preferential Treatment

“I wish I were capable of it, Katya. I know I’d love you, if I could.”
― Heather Guerre, Preferential Treatment

“In his best attempt at the classic Chicago cadence, he said, “I don’t have an accent.” “You sound like a really bad KGB agent.” Mikhail barked out a surprised laugh. “How do you do, fellow American?” she went on, imitating him. “I enjoy watching baseball and eating hamburgers. Tell me, what government secrets do you know?”
― Heather Guerre, Preferential Treatment

“It’s very difficult to find mustard compresses in American pharmacies.” “Yeah, I’ve always thought so too.” “But there is a Ukrainian shop near here that sells them.” “Oh, thank goodness.”
― Heather Guerre, Preferential Treatment

“But Mikhail was a CEO’s name, not a pet wolf’s. Something more intimate would suit, but all she could think of was “Mike,” which sounded ridiculous. She fought a smile as she considered calling him that, just to see his reaction.”
― Heather Guerre, Preferential Treatment

“Kate had always thought she’d make a good Emperor.”
― Heather Guerre, Preferential Treatment

“Charming, sneaky bastard. She had to move away from sentimental talk or she’d end up cuddling him like a puppy. Apparently she was a very soft domme, but she sensed that she was not being paid for softness.”
― Heather Guerre, Preferential Treatment

“She didn’t bother standing up to peer over cubicles at the commotion. It was almost certainly because of a food delivery. The only reason anybody ever got excited about anything around here was because there was free food in the break room.”
― Heather Guerre, Preferential Treatment