Annabel Joseph Quotes & Sayings

He and Harmony had been wed a week now, and still the briefest glance at his wife awakened the savage in him. The smallest movement or casual touch made him want to rip off her clothes and press her back on the table and rut on her wildly. His mother would not have approved. — Annabel Joseph

What kind of slut do you think I am?"
Theo bumped his hips against hers. "This might not be the best moment to ask me that. — Annabel Joseph

I want to mark you, and I want to own you. I want to fucking live inside you. — Annabel Joseph

Do you have some kind of syndrome that makes you act this way, or are you just a rude, socially inept asshole? — Annabel Joseph

They stopped and bowed their heads close together as the revelers ate and danced and celebrated around the glow of the fire. Darkness was falling over Lilyvale, the pink horizon a glorious and unusual marvel.
Lily and James hardly noticed, lost as they were in the preciousness of the moment. "Lily mine," James whispered. "We're finally home. — Annabel Joseph

Some part of me was aroused by that trust. Another part of me felt like the wolf leading Red Riding Hood into the forest. — Annabel Joseph

I'd never admitted before how much I wanted to hear those words. How much I wanted to be treasured, cared for, loved. Not just loved for the person I tried to be, but the person I was. — Annabel Joseph

You might be playing hard to get, but we both know where this is going to end up," he said, once again invading her space bubble as if she were in a Pepe Le Pew cartoon in which she starred as the unfortunate cat with a white stripe painted down her tail. "You, me, the moonlight ... " "And my vomit all over you, — Annabel Joseph

My dark, surrendered world was filled with his dominance, and a fine edge of pain. — Annabel Joseph

You stood with me in the bleak, black house. Don't let the light fool you. Don't leave me. What if you leave? — Annabel Joseph

What I really wanted to say to him was: I love you. I love you. I love you. But you scare me so bad. But I love you. I love you. I love you so much. — Annabel Joseph

Chapter One: Lady Maitland England, 1793 The Earl of Warren let his mind drift as his younger sister rambled on in a cheerful voice. Wilhelmina - or Minette, as everyone called her - could carry on a conversation for hours, no matter if the other person participated in the exchange. He had the questionable fortune to be sharing a carriage with her on a day-long journey to a friend's home in Hertfordshire. "Will we be there soon?" Minette perched on the edge of her seat, craning to look out the window. — Annabel Joseph

Dear religious, all-powerful entity, please help me be professional. Please help me resist sleeping with my sexual titan of a boss on this business trip. In the name of God or Krishna or Moses, or whoever can freaking help me. Amen. — Annabel Joseph

I wanted this girl, entitled asshole that I was, but I didn't deserve her. — Annabel Joseph

The worst thing was what I had started wanting from her by the end, what I still wanted from her with inappropriate intensity: her tears and misery, her trembling surrender, and my selfish perversity unhinging her soul. — Annabel Joseph

Theo was so pleased with her, so proud of her. In love with her, whatever love was. — Annabel Joseph

Maybe ... Maybe this was one of those moments in life, one of those karmic incidents you had to embrace. Maybe the universe had put this man in my path for a reason. Maybe it wasn't coincidence that he'd been there to unlock the dressing room door. — Annabel Joseph

Let's have a little honesty," I said instead. "You want me every day. You want me every hour, just as I want you. You fantasize about my control, my commands, my gaze on your naked skin. You want me to hurt you. You want my cock inside you, fucking you until everything else falls away." With every word, her gaze flickered a little. The front of prim professionalism would never hide the need inside her. "Just admit it," I said quietly. "To me and to yourself. — Annabel Joseph

It is a lovely day, isn't it?" she said, because she couldn't think of anything else to say to his daunting shoulder. "Yes, and a lovely party, as you mentioned some moments ago. You seem to find everything lovely. What a charming quirk." Aurelia wished she could quirk him right between his eyes with the heel of her slipper. — Annabel Joseph

I let go of control and fear and something else swept in to take their place. Surrender. Capitulation. Peace. — Annabel Joseph

I missed him like madness. I missed him so I lay in bed every night and cried for an hour. I missed him so that food had no taste and art had no beauty and life had no meaning. — Annabel Joseph

Dance better than you. Right. Because that's so easy." "No, it's not easy. It's hard, very hard. Something to strive for. Something to expire to." "I think you mean 'aspire,'" I said, although expire was probably more accurate. — Annabel Joseph

Hadn't I known from the start he was perfect? But I hadn't known I was perfect too, just as I was. Perfect for him, anyway. — Annabel Joseph

Oh my God. Party punch. He'd brought a woman with the social age of twelve to the Citadel. He deserved everything he got. — Annabel Joseph

I just can't right now," she said, staring down at her design book. "Price, I can't. I'm sorry." She bit her lip and went silent. I looked back at my blueprints. Someday I'd punish her for this. Someday I'd exact revenge for all my suffering and make her beg for my touch and my cock. She thought I had too much power to hurt her? She hadn't seen anything yet. — Annabel Joseph

You're the prince whose kiss awakened me after a hundred years. The wait was nothing. — Annabel Joseph

Come if you must, you ridiculous girl. — Annabel Joseph

I get to marry the fairy queen. — Annabel Joseph

I looked up at the stars that were really flowers and thought about vanillas who were really kinky folks waiting to be born — Annabel Joseph

Do you know about it, Kelsey?" he asked after a while. "Dominance and submission? This thing we're doing? I don't know so good how to explain it. Only how to do it. — Annabel Joseph

It was good for her though, to submit to things that weren't for her pleasure, but his. — Annabel Joseph

His whole life had become those naked hours, her warm, soft body beneath him and beside him. Her kisses, her touches.
Her sighs. — Annabel Joseph

Hunting trophies are deceased wild animals," said the man next to her, "skinned and mounted on the wall. — Annabel Joseph

I'd rather have the want of you The rich, elusive taunt of you — Annabel Joseph

Ashleigh was the answer to a prayer I hadn't even known how to put together. She was all up in my boundaries, and it was a wonderful thing. — Annabel Joseph

I have to help you, Ash. I can't say no to what you're asking, but I'm afraid I'll hurt you in this process. I won't mean to, but I will. — Annabel Joseph

I said that Lady Chastity has accepted a marriage proposal from Lord Goss. Isn't — Annabel Joseph

I'd come here to fuck Ashleigh Keaton. There was no way in hell I was staying out. — Annabel Joseph

I was ridiculously picky about my submissives, for a good reason. When I played, I liked to play hard. — Annabel Joseph

Too normal, I'd worry about. Too weird is perfectly fine. — Annabel Joseph

See, tops are mostly into the sensation and pleasure of it. They play casually, for fun. Dominants are more serious about roles and rules, and usually more into the power exchange. — Annabel Joseph

No, you have to finish school. The wind turbines need you. There's possibly an apocalypse on the way." I felt like an apocalypse was happening right now, a personal one. I felt as if I'd waited to start living my life until she came. "We'll work things out," I said. "The important thing is that we need to be together." Most of my clients owned at least one masterpiece they knew they could never part with. I had apparently acquired mine. — Annabel Joseph

She wished she wasn't jealous, but in quiet, weak moments, she desperately wanted to be like them. She wanted gentlemen to shoulder each other out of the way for her attention, to hang on her every word, however vapid those words would have to be. She wished a gentleman, just one gentleman, would notice her.
But then she remembered that she didn't like to be vapid, and she didn't wish her entire life to revolve around the attention of men. — Annabel Joseph

Oh drink me up That I may be Within your cup Like a mystery — Annabel Joseph

Then I wanted to lock her away where no one could touch her, where I wouldn't even let her touch herself. I wanted to take away her safety and make her long for her mats and blankets. I wanted to clamp her and plug her and chain her and train her to grovel at my feet. When she was completely broken, when her will and soul were mine, then I'd give her mats and blankets back. That's what I wanted. — Annabel Joseph

You can put your bra back on if you want. A lot of people play in clothes." I turned and gestured around the room, where absolutely no one was playing in clothes. "Maybe not tonight, but ... — Annabel Joseph

What I really wanted to say to her was: Don't go back to Chicago. Quit your classes and live in my cage. I promise I'll take care of you forever. You're the first work of art I've ever wanted to keep. — Annabel Joseph

Do you enjoy being cruel?"
"Jesus. That's a really loaded question."
"It's a yes or no question."
"And one I'd rather not answer if nothing's going to happen between us. — Annabel Joseph

My cock ached, but this moment was more than sex, more than horniness. — Annabel Joseph

I was his comfort object, and what he asked for, I did. — Annabel Joseph