Annabeth Albert Quotes

all he had to do was be himself, and Adrian took care of the rest.

Maddox had been kissed there before. Polite little explorations, tentative tongue flicks, quick forays before the main event. But Ben made a meal out of his ass - a seven-course banquet of sensation and tongue fucking. Like literally, fucking, tongue delving deep. That was new, deliciously so. "God.

Please don't let us lose this. Breathing

Please let him keep sleeping in here.

If he hung around Ravi long enough, he was going to become a terrible curse-word abuser, because there weren't enough polite words for how jumbled up Ravi made him feel.

The crankiest not-a-couple has made up. It's a beautiful day.

Cody probably tossed away orgasms like Kleenex.

This is what you like, isn't it?" Ben held him tight, big body surrounding Maddox, strength meeting strength. "Slow and soft?" "Love being close to you," Maddox admitted, soul stripped bare by this unexpected side of Ben. "Don't even need to come. Just kissing and rubbing like this is...special." "Yeah, it is." Ben didn't laugh at his sappiness. Instead, his eyes were dark and intense in the early morning light. "Wanted this so long." "Me

Putting the brilliant dude's brain offline was a serious ego trip.

He's the thing you can't quit.

Relative repellant activate!

Love is always a risk. One many people can't take and one that seldom pays off.

The distance between their beds felt chilly and infinite and a heartbeat from everything he'd ever wanted. Adrenaline

Fell." Maddox was cold and wet, and had been only vaguely aware of Ben dragging him through the jungle. Bumpy. Ben pleading. Ben's lips ghosting over his skin. "From

was like he'd lost a baseball game, his dog, and his last hundred bucks in the same day.

What the hell? In my time away from the scene, apparently I'd gotten fucking trendy.

Actually..." Maddox looked over Ben, question in his eyes. Ben nodded. "Not entirely accurate." "What? You didn't make up?" Apollo blinked, awfully slow for a guy who commanded troops with ease. "No, idiot." Dylan gave him a light thwack on the shoulder. "Not not-a-couple." "Oh." Apollo's eyes darted between them. "Well. About damn time." That

Not unless we got married or did something stupid." Even Maddox had to know what a ludicrous - Wait. Did Maddox want to marry him? Like him, not some faceless dude he dreamed about in his pretty little fantasies? But him? Did Maddox really want that with him? And had Ben stomped all over that in his upset about Maddox not re-upping? Fuck. I really am an ass. He

You said you were done with long-distance relationships," he reminded Adrian.

"That was before I went and fell in love with you.

No. Like a memory. I wanted to be the memory of your first kiss and I wanted to make it incredible for you and...never

They're fighting an infection in his leg. Trying to save it - save him. But you saved his life out there in the field, no doubt about that." The praise felt so hollow Ben was surprised the words didn't echo. "He can't die," Ben whispered. "I need to see him." "He'll

You'd be okay with going straight to bed and sleeping?" Noah sounded skeptical, but Adrian was serious.

"Yeah. I didn't come back for sex, Noah. I came back for you.

What else am I missing here? What's in this for you?" "You." Ben was honest for once, and it seemed to work, making Maddox stop mid-laugh and wiping the smart-ass expression off his face. "You're in it for me. I don't do relationships, you're right. But I do you. And I want to try this with you.

Want to give you everything you need." You do. You are. Hopelessly romantic words died in Maddox's throat. This moment was already perfect enough. I've loved you for years.

To science." Ben chuckled and closed the distance between them, brushing his lips across Maddox's for the first time. As per his usual, Maddox was several days past needing a shave, and his cheek was bristly against Ben's hand and his upper lip tickled Ben's. Maddox

Apollo knew well and good that wishes were nothing more than dust held together with hope, impossible to hold and foolish to dwell on.

Then do it. Do this thing with me. For real." For keeps. That wish he kept tight inside his chest, not ready to trust it with breath yet.

Last night, after their mad dash to rescue his dad's passport and an impromptu late lunch with some wedding guests, Maddox had been in the mood to talk. Ben had been in the mood to fuck. He'd won the mock-argument handily, and the memory made him shiver - God, how did things keep getting better and better between them? "You

We'll go to Napa. I'll be a better friend. A better man. Just don't die on me. Maddox's

Regrets will eat you alive if you let them. You gotta outrun them. Find something in the now.

Hey, Apollo," Maddox called. "We were just talking. If Dylan can't stay here, Ben and I could rearrange some stuff, see if he could stay with us." Hah. Apollo knew the "rearranging stuff" would undoubtedly include jockeying for whether Dylan shared Ben's bed or Maddox's by summer's end and just...no. Something angry and surprisingly protective unfurled in his gut. "He's staying here," Apollo said firmly before he could recall the words. The girls sent up a delighted squeal, and Dustin grinned widely. Ben winked at him, and Apollo knew he'd been had. Fuck.

Stop overthinking. Did you sleep good last night?" "Yeah." "And are you enjoying this right now?" "Yes." He turned his head so Adrian could nuzzle his neck. "Then that's all that matters. Tell your brain to take a little break. You'll get back to it later.