He tastes and feels even better than I ever dreamed he would. It’s like waiting years and years for the present you have always wanted, longed for, then unwrapping it and finding it’s so much more than you ever imagined it could be.

Well, Sonny should make you plenty powerful then.

You already have me.

Your answer is yes, you would. You’re afraid to say it out loud because you know, once you do, it makes it real – this thing between us – and then you won’t be able to stop it from happening. What, deep down inside, you know is inevitable.

It’s like he doesn’t know which part of me he wants to touch the most.

I’ll never love anyone like I love him, and I’ll always be his whether I’m with him or not.

There’s nothing wrong with being afraid. Everyone feels fear. But the day you let your fear control you is the day you stop living.

In this moment I just love him. Not love him, love him – but love him, oh you know what I mean.

Let your mama sleep,” he says. “If she’s moody and tired, Daddy doesn’t get any.

Yesterday is a memory. Tomorrow may never be.