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Unfortunately, smart men knew when to not keep women waiting.
“It’s the big one, Jersey,” she said. “The Retirement.”
“That’s a very long drive to leave somebody in the trunk of a car,” Memphis said. “It’s a big trunk.”
“Move over.” “Um, I think the fuck not,” I said. “There’s a whole bed over there with your name all over it, Mr. Marine.”
He hooked a third zip tie through the one on his wrist and then through the one on mine before he tightened it. “Now, move over.”
“Stop being a psycho and I won’t get so much pleasure out of annoying you.”
“You know what, Triss? If you don’t come before I even touch you with my cock, I’ll let you walk right out that door. And I’ll give you a full fucking sixty minutes before I come find you again.
“We both know you were fucking soaked before we even made it into this room.”
I used those two fingers to paint her arousal across her bottom lip then I sucked that bottom lip in between my own. She tasted like fucking ecstasy, like a hit of nitro straight to the heart.
I kissed her the same way that I planned to fuck her, like I hated her.
“I’m sorry, Jersey.” “You will be.”
“You better run fast, Fancy Face. I’ll be right behind you.”
“I’m going to need you to start thinking with your big head, Jersey Boy. Not the little one.” “They’re really about the same size.”
Hate and love both hold hands with passion. They both make people do equally crazy things and the line between them disappears while you think you’re staring right at it.”
“I figured you still owed me a date in a place like this. Your money is paying for everything. It felt right.”
We both know you’ll hate me a little more with every run I make. You’ll go from wanting to fuck me to just wanting to hurt me anyway,”
“I’m not interested in someone burning the world down for me. I can light a match all on my own.
“I think love for me would just look like safety. That’s how fucked up my life has been,”
“I want to be able to fall asleep and wake up knowing I’m safe. That my heart is safe. That’s it. That’s all there is to it.”
Those of you who have both abilities are all fucking psychopaths. Doesn’t seem like a reasonable trade off to have to give up orgasms in exchange for stability.”
“Stability isn’t worth more than an orgasm? How drunk are you?”
“A soulmate doesn’t just happen by chance,”
Soulmates are made.
“Only good girls get called good girl,” he said. “Bad girls end up in my handcuffs. They choke on my dick. Bad girls get fucked in every way imaginable until they beg me to stop. And then I fuck them a little harder.”
She tasted like pure ecstasy.
“I’ll let that one slide because I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything quite as stunning as you are when you break for me.”
“Let it happen, baby,” I whispered. “Break for me. And shatter me with you.”
“Everything about you makes me uncomfortable.”
“I think I like her a little more every time we have these talks,” Memphis said in my ear.
“Crazy seems to have a way of finding crazy, doesn’t it?”
“The most wonderful thing about Tiggers is I’m the only one.”
You choosing to follow the rules and not kill me now doesn’t change the fact that you’re just delivering me for someone else to finish the job.”
The broken sob that came out of her shook her entire body. It wasn’t fake. Son of a motherfucking god damned bitch. My arms were wrapped around her before I could stop myself. “Just kill me. Please, Jersey.” The words were muffled and broken by her crying, but I still fucking heard them. “I can’t.” Contract or not. Rules or not. I couldn’t kill her. I wouldn’t.
“No, baby.”
“Let me do it now, so I don’t have to suffer just for the sake of satisfying someone’s desire to torture me.
Memphis. She was the difference it made for me.
“I hate you,” she said into my chest. I hate me too, baby.
“How kind of you to want to escort me right into Hell.”
He leaned down to kiss me so softly that it took my brain a full three or four seconds to really grasp that it was happening. It wasn’t punishing or possessive. It wasn’t dominating. It was so tender that it hurt.
“Don’t,” I said quietly. “Please.” “What was that?” She pressed anyway. “You wouldn’t believe me even if I told you, honey buns.”
What happened to her from this point wasn’t part of the job. I was supposed to tie her to the chair that was in the middle of the room. And then I was supposed to walk back out.
and I tried with all my fucking willpower to not look at the other items laid across that table. “God, Jersey,” Memphis said. “What are all those for?” “Punishment.” “I think I could’ve lived my entire life without seeing that,” she said. My hands shook when I picked up the rope.
She was just waiting now. Accepting it.
You know how to survive. Stay together.” “Jersey —.”
“Stay with her,” he said to Memphis. “She’s fucking crazy. And her whole existence is like nails on a chalkboard. But she’ll keep you safe.”
“We’re out of time, baby. I need you to get moving,”
“You can’t be here anymore. You’re the only thing I see when you’re around. You’re constantly in my fucking way.”
“You take up all the space in my head. You block the eye contact I prefer to keep with the devil at all times. I need you to go now, so I can see him clearly again. So, I can let out what you’ve been keeping at bay.”
“I’m not in love with him, you psycho. I just love him. He’s like that crazy cousin who nobody really wants at the family cookout, but he shows up anyway, starts a food fight, pisses everybody off, steals your brother’s new girlfriend, and then just leaves. How could you not love that?”
“Tell me that’s not your thong wrapped around the shifter.”
