Riot Act (Crooked Sinners)

by Callie Hart

Want something? Pax will take it from you. Love something? Pax will destroy it. Love him? Then Heaven help you. You’d have to be the stupidest person to walk the face of the earth.

I am no longer afraid of Pax Davis. I realized that when I convinced him to kiss me back in the hospital. Am I still insanely attracted to him? Absolutely.

I can exist alongside them quite happily, and that feels like freedom to me.

“Kiss me like you fucking mean it,” he orders. “Kiss me the way you want me to fuck you.”

I don’t want my mind to be fixed on you when the sun comes up and when it goes down.

Knowing something and being ready to own it are very different things, though.

“The path of least resistance doesn’t always mean taking the easiest option. Sometimes it means your soul finding its way home, toward something it loves, after you’ve held it back for too fucking long.”