“If a woman recognizes her power, she can present herself in rags and people will recognize her as queen.”
―
Beth Kery,
Because You Torment Me
“No. I want you too much to take you in stingy little servings. Maybe you’ll think that’s greedy of me, but I’m not the kind of guy who takes what he wants in half measures.” ― Beth Kery, Wicked Burn
“Who’s Beth?” Keri asked.“The bartender at your wedding.”“Oh, that’s right. How could I forget whenmy husband almost got thrown out of our ownreception for trying to hire her like a hooker orsomething.”“What’s a hooker?” Bobby asked.Keri’s island tan flushed pink. “Oops.”“You put it on the end of a fishing pole,dummy,” Brian explained.Bobby frowned. “Uncle Joe tried to hire aworm?” ― Shannon Stacey, Undeniably Yours
“Eu sou o gato que anda sozinho, e todos os lugares são iguais para mim" - In, "Porque és Minha", Beth Kery, Saída de Emergência (2013)” ― Beth Kery quoted by
“Earth was the shorthand name for the classroom studio, named Earth, Fire, Air, Water, Spirit. Megan thought the alchemical name was especially appropriate for the art of sculpting, since the medium utilized all of those things.” ― Beth Kery, Gateway To Heaven
“More tears scattered down her flushed cheeks at the sensation of his cock throbbing while his seed jetted powerfully into her womb.” ― Beth Kery, Wicked Burn
“You should always control the strengths you have available to you, never let them languish or, worse, allow others to control them for you.” ― Beth Kery, Because You Are Mine
“I told you once before that a woman wears the clothes Francesca, ... If a woman recognizes her power, she can present herself in rags and people will recognize her as a queen.” ― Beth Kery, Because You Are Mine
“The chaos came to an abrupt halt as everybody held their breath when Brian pulled the trigger on one of the Nerf guns Paulie had brought and accidentally shot Beth in the forehead. “Brian,” Lisa shouted at her third son. Beth blinked in surprise, then carefully set her gifts to one side and rose from her chair. Kevin stood, too, in case she was going to try to lock herself in the bathroom or make a break for the front door. She did neither. Grabbing a gun from under the tree, she very calmly started loading darts into the clip, and then she smiled at Brian and cocked it. “You are so gonna get it.” Brian screamed and took off toward the dining room, Beth on his heels. Bobby grabbed his gun with a whoop and took after them as the sounds of running headed toward the kitchen. Joey and Danny, being older and wiser, headed in the other direction with stealth, readying to cut the others off. “Epic Nerf Gun Battle of Doom!” Keri shouted, and all the adults laughed. Joe’s new bride had already suffered through the Tandem Cannonballs of Doom and the Annual Kowalski Volleyball Death Match Tournament of Doom over the summer, but she wrestled Stephanie’s gun away from her and took after the crowd.” ― Shannon Stacey, Undeniably Yours
“Then came Dani’s turn to read a question. “‘Who’s in charge in the bedroom?’”Much to the group’s amusement, none of them got a match, and Sean didn’t think they would either as he held up his notepad. “‘I am, since I carry the big stick.’”Emma read hers with a remarkably straight face. “‘Sean, because he has a magic penis.’”“Wow. Um…so Sean and Emma have a point,” Dani said as the men nearly pissed themselves laughing.No way in hell was he leaving that unpunished, and he winked at Emma when Kevin read the next question. “‘Where’s the kinkiest place you’ve had sex?’”The fact that Joe and Keri had done the dirty deed on the back of his ATV led to a few questions about the logistics of that, but then it was Emma’s turn. “‘In bed, because Sean has no imagination.’”Roger threw an embarrassed wince his way, but his cousins weren’t shy about laughing their asses off.Sean just shrugged and held up his notepad. “In the car in the mall parking lot. Emma’s lying because she doesn’t want anybody to know being watched turns her on.”Her jaw dropped, but she recovered quickly and gave him a sweet smile that didn’t jibe with the “you are so going to get it” look in her eyes.Beth asked the next question. “‘Women, where does your man secretly dream of having sex?’”Keri knew Joe wanted to have sex in the reportedly very haunted Stanley Hotel, from King’s The Shining. Dani claimed Roger wanted to do the deed on a Caribbean beach, but he said that was her fantasy and that his was to have sex in an igloo. No amount of heckling would get him to say why. And when it came to Kevin, even Sean knew he dreamed of getting laid on the pitcher’s mound at Fenway Park.Then, God help him, it was Emma’s turn to show her answer. “‘In a Burger King bathroom.’”The room felt silent until Dani said, “Ew. Really?”“No, not really,” Sean growled. “Really,” Emma said over him. “He knows that’s the only way he can slip me a whopper.”As the room erupted in laughter, Sean knew humor was the only way they’d get through the evening with their secret intact, but he didn’t find that one very funny, himself.It was the final answer that really did him in, though. The question: “If your sex had a motto, what would it be?”Joe and Keri’s was, not surprisingly, Don’t wake the baby Kevin and Beth wrote, Better than chocolate cake, whatever that was supposed to mean. Dani wrote, Gets better with time, like fine wine, and Roger wrote, Like cheese, the older you get, the better it is, which led to a powwow about whether or not to give them a point. They probably would have gotten it if they weren’t tied with Keri and Joe, who took competitive to a cutthroat level.When they all looked at Sean, he groaned and turned his paper around. They’d lost any chance of winning way back, but he was already dreading what the smart-ass he wasn’t really engaged to had written down. “‘She’s the boss.’”The look Emma gave him as she slowly turned the notepad around gave him advance warning she was about to lay down the royal flush in this little game they’d been playing.“Size really doesn’t matter,” she said in what sounded to him like a really loud voice.Before he could say anything—and he had no idea what was going to come out of his mouth, but he had to say something--Cat appeared at the top of the stairs.“I hate to break up the party,” she said, “but it’s getting late, so we’re calling it a night.”Maybe Cat was, but Sean was just getting started.” ― Shannon Stacey, Yours to Keep
“Nick didn’t take from me, he infused me, showed me the woman I could be—the one I wanted to be. Sexy. Fierce. Shameless. One who took what she wanted without apology. Without fear.” ― Keri Lake, Ricochet
“Sanctimonious asshole,” Vic muttered under his breath.” ― Beth Kery, Wicked Burn
“He’d make it right. He had to. The alternative just wasn’t viable.” ― Beth Kery, Wicked Burn
“So even though he saw uncertainty in her beautiful eyes, he chose to let the heat of the moment burn it away. She would either accept his ways or she wouldn’t. He couldn’t change who he was for a woman. He’d already tried that once.” ― Beth Kery, Wicked Burn
“I wanted to tell you about Michael, Vic. Not just about his murder. Everything. He was such an amazing little boy,” she said with a small, desperate laugh. “I . . . I’ve really hated the fact that I haven’t been able to talk about him for so long. He deserves so much better than that” ― Beth Kery, Wicked Burn
“honey.” ― Beth Kery, Wicked Burn
“I won’t, either. I’ve never lied so much in my life as when I told you that what happened between us was nearly forgettable.” ― Beth Kery, Wicked Burn
“I’m kidding, Niall. I might be a moody son of a bitch when I’m writing, and my sister and a hundred or so other people have told me that I’ve got a foul temper, but I don’t lie. That’s not one of my vices. I hate lies.” ― Beth Kery, Wicked Burn
“Have you even tried to contact him?” Davie said, hanging the dress in her bathroom.“No. I can still feel his fury. It’s like it’s emanating all the way from the Chicago River to our house.” ― Beth Kery
“No. I want you too much to take you in stingy little servings. Maybe you’ll think that’s greedy of me, but I’m not the kind of guy who takes what he wants in half measures.” ― Beth Kery, Wicked Burn
“Who’s Beth?” Keri asked.“The bartender at your wedding.”“Oh, that’s right. How could I forget whenmy husband almost got thrown out of our ownreception for trying to hire her like a hooker orsomething.”“What’s a hooker?” Bobby asked.Keri’s island tan flushed pink. “Oops.”“You put it on the end of a fishing pole,dummy,” Brian explained.Bobby frowned. “Uncle Joe tried to hire aworm?” ― Shannon Stacey, Undeniably Yours
“Eu sou o gato que anda sozinho, e todos os lugares são iguais para mim" - In, "Porque és Minha", Beth Kery, Saída de Emergência (2013)” ― Beth Kery quoted by
“Earth was the shorthand name for the classroom studio, named Earth, Fire, Air, Water, Spirit. Megan thought the alchemical name was especially appropriate for the art of sculpting, since the medium utilized all of those things.” ― Beth Kery, Gateway To Heaven
“More tears scattered down her flushed cheeks at the sensation of his cock throbbing while his seed jetted powerfully into her womb.” ― Beth Kery, Wicked Burn
“You should always control the strengths you have available to you, never let them languish or, worse, allow others to control them for you.” ― Beth Kery, Because You Are Mine
“I told you once before that a woman wears the clothes Francesca, ... If a woman recognizes her power, she can present herself in rags and people will recognize her as a queen.” ― Beth Kery, Because You Are Mine
“The chaos came to an abrupt halt as everybody held their breath when Brian pulled the trigger on one of the Nerf guns Paulie had brought and accidentally shot Beth in the forehead. “Brian,” Lisa shouted at her third son. Beth blinked in surprise, then carefully set her gifts to one side and rose from her chair. Kevin stood, too, in case she was going to try to lock herself in the bathroom or make a break for the front door. She did neither. Grabbing a gun from under the tree, she very calmly started loading darts into the clip, and then she smiled at Brian and cocked it. “You are so gonna get it.” Brian screamed and took off toward the dining room, Beth on his heels. Bobby grabbed his gun with a whoop and took after them as the sounds of running headed toward the kitchen. Joey and Danny, being older and wiser, headed in the other direction with stealth, readying to cut the others off. “Epic Nerf Gun Battle of Doom!” Keri shouted, and all the adults laughed. Joe’s new bride had already suffered through the Tandem Cannonballs of Doom and the Annual Kowalski Volleyball Death Match Tournament of Doom over the summer, but she wrestled Stephanie’s gun away from her and took after the crowd.” ― Shannon Stacey, Undeniably Yours
“Then came Dani’s turn to read a question. “‘Who’s in charge in the bedroom?’”Much to the group’s amusement, none of them got a match, and Sean didn’t think they would either as he held up his notepad. “‘I am, since I carry the big stick.’”Emma read hers with a remarkably straight face. “‘Sean, because he has a magic penis.’”“Wow. Um…so Sean and Emma have a point,” Dani said as the men nearly pissed themselves laughing.No way in hell was he leaving that unpunished, and he winked at Emma when Kevin read the next question. “‘Where’s the kinkiest place you’ve had sex?’”The fact that Joe and Keri had done the dirty deed on the back of his ATV led to a few questions about the logistics of that, but then it was Emma’s turn. “‘In bed, because Sean has no imagination.’”Roger threw an embarrassed wince his way, but his cousins weren’t shy about laughing their asses off.Sean just shrugged and held up his notepad. “In the car in the mall parking lot. Emma’s lying because she doesn’t want anybody to know being watched turns her on.”Her jaw dropped, but she recovered quickly and gave him a sweet smile that didn’t jibe with the “you are so going to get it” look in her eyes.Beth asked the next question. “‘Women, where does your man secretly dream of having sex?’”Keri knew Joe wanted to have sex in the reportedly very haunted Stanley Hotel, from King’s The Shining. Dani claimed Roger wanted to do the deed on a Caribbean beach, but he said that was her fantasy and that his was to have sex in an igloo. No amount of heckling would get him to say why. And when it came to Kevin, even Sean knew he dreamed of getting laid on the pitcher’s mound at Fenway Park.Then, God help him, it was Emma’s turn to show her answer. “‘In a Burger King bathroom.’”The room felt silent until Dani said, “Ew. Really?”“No, not really,” Sean growled. “Really,” Emma said over him. “He knows that’s the only way he can slip me a whopper.”As the room erupted in laughter, Sean knew humor was the only way they’d get through the evening with their secret intact, but he didn’t find that one very funny, himself.It was the final answer that really did him in, though. The question: “If your sex had a motto, what would it be?”Joe and Keri’s was, not surprisingly, Don’t wake the baby Kevin and Beth wrote, Better than chocolate cake, whatever that was supposed to mean. Dani wrote, Gets better with time, like fine wine, and Roger wrote, Like cheese, the older you get, the better it is, which led to a powwow about whether or not to give them a point. They probably would have gotten it if they weren’t tied with Keri and Joe, who took competitive to a cutthroat level.When they all looked at Sean, he groaned and turned his paper around. They’d lost any chance of winning way back, but he was already dreading what the smart-ass he wasn’t really engaged to had written down. “‘She’s the boss.’”The look Emma gave him as she slowly turned the notepad around gave him advance warning she was about to lay down the royal flush in this little game they’d been playing.“Size really doesn’t matter,” she said in what sounded to him like a really loud voice.Before he could say anything—and he had no idea what was going to come out of his mouth, but he had to say something--Cat appeared at the top of the stairs.“I hate to break up the party,” she said, “but it’s getting late, so we’re calling it a night.”Maybe Cat was, but Sean was just getting started.” ― Shannon Stacey, Yours to Keep
“Nick didn’t take from me, he infused me, showed me the woman I could be—the one I wanted to be. Sexy. Fierce. Shameless. One who took what she wanted without apology. Without fear.” ― Keri Lake, Ricochet
“Sanctimonious asshole,” Vic muttered under his breath.” ― Beth Kery, Wicked Burn
“He’d make it right. He had to. The alternative just wasn’t viable.” ― Beth Kery, Wicked Burn
“So even though he saw uncertainty in her beautiful eyes, he chose to let the heat of the moment burn it away. She would either accept his ways or she wouldn’t. He couldn’t change who he was for a woman. He’d already tried that once.” ― Beth Kery, Wicked Burn
“I wanted to tell you about Michael, Vic. Not just about his murder. Everything. He was such an amazing little boy,” she said with a small, desperate laugh. “I . . . I’ve really hated the fact that I haven’t been able to talk about him for so long. He deserves so much better than that” ― Beth Kery, Wicked Burn
“honey.” ― Beth Kery, Wicked Burn
“I won’t, either. I’ve never lied so much in my life as when I told you that what happened between us was nearly forgettable.” ― Beth Kery, Wicked Burn
“I’m kidding, Niall. I might be a moody son of a bitch when I’m writing, and my sister and a hundred or so other people have told me that I’ve got a foul temper, but I don’t lie. That’s not one of my vices. I hate lies.” ― Beth Kery, Wicked Burn
“Have you even tried to contact him?” Davie said, hanging the dress in her bathroom.“No. I can still feel his fury. It’s like it’s emanating all the way from the Chicago River to our house.” ― Beth Kery
