“You shine, Baby LeBlanc. So fucking bright sometimes you’re the only thing I see.” — L.J. Shen Copy Share Image
“I will always be in the right headspace to be inside you. You’re my home.” — L.J. Shen Copy Share Image
“You really are F****** arresting, love, but I reckon I'll be the one doing the cuffing tonight.” — L.J. Shen Copy Share Image
“I needed to grow up, but growing up meant letting go of who I’d been for the past seven years. The last… — L.J. Shen Copy Share Image
“No matter the pain, I could take it, because it wouldn’t last very long. Not more than an hour, anyway. And Brock… — L.J. Shen Communication Copy Share Image
“Why was Brock so hell-bent on hurting Troy? He was the one who ended up marrying Troy’s girl and got a job… — L.J. Shen Copy Share Image
“Grandmama said that the cherry blossom was life. Sweet and beautiful, but so darn short. Too short not to do what you… — L.J. Shen Blossom Copy Share Image
“What the hell? Did he not see how much I longed for him? How much I wanted him? How I couldn’t, for… — L.J. Shen Life Copy Share Image
“But imperfection is where we thrive. In the dark alleyways of society where we first met. I take her face in my… — L.J. Shen First met Copy Share Image
“I’d finally found him. The one man scarier than my father. Not that I was looking. Because while Vicious made a lot… — L.J. Shen Parenting Copy Share Image
“I just received some very bad fucking news, and I’m really in the mood for some torturing. One last time—where’s the fucker?”… — L.J. Shen Copy Share Image
“OBJECTIVELY SPEAKING, my wedding to Troy Brennan was a beautiful event. Obscenely lavish and obnoxiously wasteful. Brennan spared no expense when it… — L.J. Shen Beauty Copy Share Image
“He did atrocious things, but it was him I wanted. Always, only him. Troy stopped when we were nose to nose. Toe… — L.J. Shen Copy Share Image
“Dean ‘Ruckus’ Cole was a different kind of asshole to Baron ‘Vicious’ Spencer. He fucked you over with a polite smile on… — L.J. Shen Copy Share Image
“He deserved more than a girl who couldn’t tell him how she felt. He was perfect, and I was flawed. “Promise me.”… — L.J. Shen Every night Copy Share Image
“Over the past few months, I had taken every precaution to avoid the local papers and Internet sites. I did everything, other… — L.J. Shen Copy Share Image
“Ask me what I want,” Vicious murmured into my face. The public display of affection from him—not sexual, not bullying, but pure,… — L.J. Shen Affection Copy Share Image
“Los Angeles was like a B-Grade prostitute. She let anyone in, looked less than average, and once inside, you realized there was… — L.J. Shen Copy Share Image
“I was going to yell my lungs out when I got to her for pulling this kind of shit. Once I got… — L.J. Shen Break free Copy Share Image
“He was no knight in shining armor, a far cry from a savior. He was just a broken, sad boy who was… — L.J. Shen Knight in shining armor Copy Share Image
“How can it feel this good?” she nearly protested, reaching with her hand to touch me again. I moved away quickly, still… — L.J. Shen Copy Share Image
“It would take a long time until I laughed again, really laughed, or felt genuinely happy, but this was a start. I… — L.J. Shen Copy Share Image
“From afar, Alex Winslow looked like nothing could penetrate his armor. But he was an artist—and an artist’s armor is full of… — L.J. Shen Art Copy Share Image
“Trent was tall, built, and tan. His black hair was buzzed close to the scalp, marines-style, and he wore charcoal slacks, a… — L.J. Shen Copy Share Image
“I was infected head to toe. Resistant to any medicine, immune to anything he might do. In fact, I knew that even… — L.J. Shen Copy Share Image
“This time, the record company had asked for, “catchy, fun, bubbly, with a hint of rock ‘n’ roll.” So of course my… — L.J. Shen Business Copy Share Image
“Indigo’s gaze clung to my face, not unlike a puppy. I glared back, because I was a petty fuck, and because staring… — L.J. Shen Text Messages Copy Share Image
“Yesterday I lay with you in a bed of glass We broke together trying to survive your past Still, in your pain… — L.J. Shen Beauty Copy Share Image
“Whatever we were, we were toxic. A lullaby on a thoroughly scratched record that keeps hiccuping again and again on the line… — L.J. Shen Lullaby Copy Share Image
“It was a mistake of epic proportions, I knew that. And just like any huge mistake, payback was going to be painful.… — L.J. Shen Failure Copy Share Image
“Why was he acting like we were total strangers? I wanted to strangle and kiss the hell out of him and jump… — L.J. Shen Strangers Copy Share Image
“He looked straight into my eyes with an intimacy you couldn’t fake. I felt so exposed, it was almost like he ripped… — L.J. Shen Copy Share Image
“His knob could be on the cover of Vogue wearing a beret with a cigarette sticking from the tip and he would… — L.J. Shen Cigarette Copy Share Image
“She was warm and silky. Delicious, really. I wanted to take her like a drug. All at once, in one gulp. I… — L.J. Shen Copy Share Image
“Why was I crying now? Because I had my life back. Because I had my family around me. Because everything was supposed… — L.J. Shen Copy Share Image
“That’s the thing about broken princes. Not all of them have to die. If their soul is whole, they sometimes survive. Sometimes,… — L.J. Shen King Copy Share Image
“Rose LeBlanc got her name for a reason. She was full of fucking thorns. She was so beautiful—so ridiculously, unbelievably alluring—that just… — L.J. Shen Copy Share Image
“Guilt was a thief. It would steal your mind, mess with your priorities and would eventually steer you from your original plan.… — L.J. Shen Guilt Copy Share Image
“I’m just not sure how you can be both nice and compassionate and a terrible asshole all at the same time,” I… — L.J. Shen Compassionate Copy Share Image
“He was navigating the streets like a fire-spitting monster was on our heels, violating every driving law known to man, and inspiring… — L.J. Shen Driving Copy Share Image
