Under Your Scars (Under Your Scars, #1)

by Ariel N. Anderson

“It means that I’m going to make you want me as bad as I want you. I’m going to make you fantasize about how it feels to have my fingers in your greedy little cunt. I’m going to make you beg for my tongue against your clit. I’m going to make you so wet and needy for me that you’ll do anything to get me to relieve that hot, achy feeling inside you. Once you admit you want me, that’s when I’ll show my appreciation. With every part of me. On every part of you.”

“Promise?” He holds out his gloved pinky to me, and I frown, but I take it in mine.

we love a pinky promise

“It’s in case you ever need help,” he explains. I lift the chain to examine it. “The charm attached is a silent panic alarm. You turn it on by clicking it five times. You’ll feel it vibrate, and it will send me an alert with your exact location. If you press it, I’ll come. No matter what.”

“I don’t want to kill you, angel. I want to keep you all to myself. You’d better take off those rose-colored glasses and accept that the only place you belong is in my black heart.”

“Who did this to you?”

kicking my feet

“If you don’t tell me the truth right now, I will find out myself by burning this fucking city to the ground.”

“They need to know what happens when they touch what’s mine, Elena. They’re going to convert religions, because they won’t be praying to God, they’ll be praying to me. Begging for my fucking mercy after I hunt them all down and show them the true meaning of fear.”

“If your safety is even slightly in jeopardy, it’s an emergency to me. Next time, press the goddamn button.”

“You can’t just keep killing people for—” “I can and I will, Elena. Until there’s no one left that can hurt you. That’s a promise.”

“I stabbed myself in the arm and waited for you to find me, and I forced you to help me.”

we love the dedication

I make a mental note to research psychiatric hospitals when I get home, because I need serious mental help.

LOL

“Whenever I want. As much as I want.”

“I need to be inside you. Right fucking now.”

“Your pretty pussy is crying for me.”

“I am painfully, catastrophically in love with you.”

“I am so, so sorry that you trusted me with your heart and that I didn’t give you mine back, but I promise I will. I promise we’ll have that all-consuming love that gives us cavities and I promise we’ll build a life and a home and a family together if that’s what you want. I just need a little time to learn how to love you back.”

I’m going to remind him about what he promised to me the day we got here. If he closes this deal, he’s going to fuck me so hard they’ll hear me across the world.

I should have burnt this city to the ground when I had the chance.

“Elena, I swear on my fucking life I will hunt him to the ends of the earth. I will find him and I will make him suffer until even the devil himself fears me.”

Loving her was a drug I got addicted to after a single hit,

Love makes people blind. It makes us blind, and selfish, and stupid.”

I think I’ve gone into shock. I think I’ve gone into cardiac arrest. I think I’m dead.

“But you are worth that sacrifice. That’s why I’m still here.”

Safe isn’t a place. It’s the people that love you.

“I’m going to take a quick shower. You can…join me if you want.” He rinses his mouth and shakes his head. “I took a shower last night.” “I didn’t mean to get clean.”

“I love you so much it makes me insane. I love you so much it makes me dangerous. I love you so much that I would burn this world for you and all the people in it just to keep you all to myself. Do you understand me? If it comes down to a choice, you will choose me. I don’t give a fuck if it costs the remainder of your soul. You are mine and only mine.”

“I may wear the pants in this relationship, but I’m not currently wearing any panties.”

“Then my wife should know that my chest isn’t the only thing in pain. I need medicine only you can give me.”

Everything that causes tension in our relationship melts away until I’m nothing but a beast lusting after her.

“You’re full of surprises, Mrs. Reeves.”

“Christian is the only person on this planet that’s allowed to break me, because he’s the only person on the planet who knows how to put me back together again.”

“God, you look so pretty on your knees,”

You know I believe everything happens for a reason. I think we’re all exactly where we belong, even if it doesn’t seem like it right now.”