Anna Harding > Quotes

“He wanted me, ME to marry the cherished sister of the unhinged boss of the Bratva. I didn’t want my boss knowing what I did in bed and I sure as fuck didn’t want Simon Nemov knowing what I did to his sister in bed.”
― Anna Harding, Dark Atonement

“No way would I ever marry a girl of his choice. Some naïve little Russian virgin who’d run crying to her (and worse my) father if I did anything in bed to her outside the missionary position. I couldn’t think of anything I’d enjoy less.”
― Anna Harding, Dark Atonement

“She wasn’t a woman—she was a Goddess. And I’d bring down Heaven and Earth to make her mine.”
― Anna Harding, Forbidden Love

“Naturally you would be expected to prove yourself. Blood forms the basis of the covenant in the Bratva. You prove your loyalty to me by killing someone disloyal to me.”
― Anna Harding, Deceitful Union

“I admit to having a penchant for virgins, and Rose was the archetypal virgin. She also read poetry, understood wine, wrote novels in her spare time, and thought I was the sexiest man she’d ever met.”
― Anna Harding, Unlimited Power

“In the stories I loved, the girl was always rescued. But no one was coming to rescue me. I had to go face the monster myself.”
― Anna Harding, Dark Atonement

“She was quiet for a moment with her own memories. Her eyes glowed softly in the candlelight as she looked at me, and I gazed at her for a moment, awed by my own response to her.
I was falling in love with this woman.”
― Anna Harding, Unlimited Power

“Eloise I kill for a living. I kill for fun. I torture my enemies. I gut them. Then I come home to you and, fuck, I want to protect you. But the man you need protecting from most is your own husband.”
― Anna Harding, Dark Atonement

“Maybe if I’d been older, with more experience, or a better understanding of how relationships actually worked, things might have played out differently. But I was a simple man. I knew right from wrong, and I expected my future wife to know it too.”
― Anna Harding, Unlimited Power

“I’d never seen anyone with such… charisma. I couldn’t decide if I wanted to drag him to the library and discuss every book I’d ever read with him, or drop my knickers and lose my virginity at record speed.”
― Anna Harding, Unlimited Power

“Enough is enough.
Even I can only be pushed so far.
He gave me this woman.
There’s no fucking way he’s taking her back.”
― Anna Harding, Deceitful Union

“A truly powerful man needs neither violence nor sex games to command respect and obedience from his wife.”
― Anna Harding, Tortured Innocence

“No wonder this man was tipped to be the next head of the Mafia. I doubted he even needed to raise a finger to torture things out of people. I’d tell him anything he wanted just for a smile from him.”
― Anna Harding, Unlimited Power

“You look fucking beautiful,’ he said roughly. He loosened his tie with his other hand. ‘You like books and fantasy, don’t you?’
I nodded.
‘You like pretending? Ok. Well tonight you’re going to be allowed to do all the pretending you want.’ He unfastened his tie and, to my shock, tied it around my head, completely blotting out my vision.
‘Tonight,’ he said huskily, ‘I can be anyone you fucking need me to be.’ He lifted me up and carried me in his arms into the bedroom. ‘You want to imagine you’re being ravished on a pirate ship or seduced in some sultan’s palace, then do it. Close your eyes and believe whatever works for you.’
He laid me gently on the bed and slipped his hand between my legs. ‘Just feel, Lilia,’ he said. ‘No thinking, just feel…”
― Anna Harding, Cruel Punishment

“My father had discussed morality with me when I entered the family business. He told me that although we operated outside the law, we operated within a strict moral code. Morality, he had said, was even more important for people like us, as we couldn’t rely on the law to draw our lines for us. We had to know our own limits and understand which lines we were prepared to cross—and which ones would damage us if we crossed them.”
― Anna Harding, Deceitful Union

“Every time he rolled a condom on, I felt so helpless, so full of anger that my life was being dictated to like this. So many times I’d almost ripped it off him and accepted the consequences. But I couldn’t. Maybe I was as bad as Lorena at fighting our upbringing. Or maybe I just didn’t want to bring a baby into the mess of a Mafia life.”
― anna harding

“She was giving a brilliant performance of terror. The realism was far more erotic than the usual giggling in a dark room with a whore in slutty lingerie. I appreciated her attention to detail and I appreciated her acting ability. This was going to be one hell of a fuck.”
― Anna Harding

“When we finally broke apart, I was breathless.
‘I liked that,’ I whispered.
He gave me a relieved smile. ‘I’ve wanted to do that since the first time I saw you.’
I couldn’t help but ask, ‘Why didn’t you?’
Nikolai looked straight at me, a mixture of tenderness and devilment dancing in his eyes. ‘I don’t rush into anything that means a lot to me.’
I caught my breath. ‘I…’
‘It was always going to happen, Isabella. You and me. I just needed to know we were both ready.”
― Anna Harding, Murderous Secrets

“I didn’t feel human any more. I didn’t even feel like an animal. I had been forgotten by life outside this room and I didn’t exist as anything but a toy for these men. They took me out to torment me and tidied me away after their games.
I didn’t know if I was broken.
I didn’t know if I wanted to live or die.”
― anna harding