{"author":"Kate Meader","author_id":"Kate+Meader","total_quotes":19,"quotes":[{"text":"This pride of yours, it’s admirable as all get-out, but there has to come a point in your life where you admit you need a hand. Pain might be necessary, but suffering is optional. Are you going to let me be the fucking man here and help my woman?","author":"Kate Meader","tags":["brazen","brody-kane","emma-strickland","pain","pride","suffering","taking-the-score","tall-dark-and-texan"],"id":4421,"author_id":"Kate+Meader"},{"text":"She cracked a sexy smile with a side of condescension. “Jack, I’m not looking to know you.”No, she wasn’t, unless you counted biblically. She was looking for the guy who indiscriminately dated and bedded famous women. A guy whose life could be reduced to adjectives, most of them unflattering. That guy.","author":"Kate Meader","tags":["fame"],"id":20278,"author_id":"Kate+Meader"},{"text":"And then that mouth was speaking Russian, rough, sexy, sweet nothings that drove her wild. Forced out all common sense. His mouth trailed her jaw, delivering little nips and hot licks to her neck.“Bella”—something in Russian—“Bella”—more Russian—“Bella.” As if one language was inadequate to express how she affected him.","author":"Kate Meader","tags":["chicago-rebels","kate-meader","kissing","russian","so-over-you"],"id":66066,"author_id":"Kate+Meader"},{"text":"She leaned in, a tip she had read today on HuffPo’s Love \u0026 Sex section. Boobs out, smile wide, voice low. Being sexy was exhausting.","author":"Kate Meader","tags":["alex-dempsey","chicago","dating","firefighters","hot-in-chicago"],"id":122291,"author_id":"Kate+Meader"},{"text":"But that kiss did more than turn her into a puddle of lust. It terrified her. Not because of how soul-searingly good it was, but because kisses like that don’t just happen. Kisses like that implied history and connection and bone-deep knowledge, and it made her question everything that had existed between them before.","author":"Kate Meader","tags":["braze","chicago","hunter-dade","kisses","kissing","tall-dark-and-texan","tess-mckenzie","texans"],"id":139285,"author_id":"Kate+Meader"},{"text":"Those blue pools still wavered between her eyes and mouth. “I’m gonna kiss you now, minou.”She might have nodded. She might have blinked. One for yes, two for hell yeah.","author":"Kate Meader","tags":["chicago-rebels","hockey-player","hockey-romance","irresistible-you","kate-meader","kiss"],"id":142308,"author_id":"Kate+Meader"},{"text":"Falling in love with you was the easiest thing I’ve ever done. Falling is easy. Staying that way is hard. But I’ve been choosing hard all my life, so why the hell would the life I make with the woman who completes me be any different? I love you like a madman. You’re the air I breathe, my next heartbeat, and I’m never letting go.","author":"Kate Meader","tags":["falling-in-love","firefighters","hot-in-chicago","kate-meader","sparking-the-fire","wyatt-fox"],"id":145643,"author_id":"Kate+Meader"},{"text":"Pucker up, Hollywood. By the time I’m finished with you, the neighbors are gonna need a cigarette.","author":"Kate Meader","tags":["firefighters","hot-in-chicago","kate-meader","kissing","sparking-the-fire","wyatt-fox"],"id":152574,"author_id":"Kate+Meader"},{"text":"Knowing what she did to him made her feel powerful, just as knowing what he did to her made her feel weak.","author":"Kate Meader","tags":["alex-dempsey","chicago","eli-cooper","firefighters","hot-in-chicago","love","mayor","strength","weakness"],"id":161947,"author_id":"Kate+Meader"},{"text":"Flynn was kissing her again, not to help her forget but to force her to remember. Everything he had meant to her then. Everything he meant to her now. How he always had been, and forever would be, her world.","author":"Kate Meader","tags":["alpha","brazen","forever","kate-meader","kissing","tall-dark-and-texan","texans"],"id":178086,"author_id":"Kate+Meader"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":19,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}