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I wanted a new label. One that said: girlfriend who will do anything to be tied, spanked, and fucked all over rather than adored.
Breathing hard, my entire body wanted to weep, but my eyes remained dry. These men didn’t deserve my tears.
“I hate you. One day, you will suffer as your victims suffer. One day, Karma will come and bite your ass.”
They didn’t care who I was. Only what I was becoming. Something to be sold.
The tears I shed froze on my cheeks, reminding me to keep my frosty exterior to survive. I had to become an icicle—cool and impenetrable, sharp and deadly.
“You are mine. You are mine. Repeat that until it gets into your head. You cannot disobey. Unless...” A glint of interest smouldered in his eyes. “Unless you want to be punished?”
“Fine,” he barked. “I’ll call you Dove, until you answer. Like the grey-blue of your eyes.”
“I am not an esclave and you are not my maître. You will never be.”
“You are my esclave. It isn’t negotiable. And consider my proposal for two options revoked. I can no longer do so.” He breathed hard with unmasked desire. “You’re mine, and I chose option one.”
“Until tonight, esclave.”
“This is mine. Everything is…”
“Don’t stop living while you endure. And don’t let the pain of your past stop you from being happy in this new life.”
He rescued me from horror and protected me from the bastards who hurt. Q was no longer the devil. He was my master and I belonged to him.
“It’s over. You don’t have to fear,” he whispered. “I’ll kill anyone who hurts you.”
“Je suis à toi.”
“Answer me, esclave. Is it really so bad to be owned by me?”
“Je suis là,”
“Let me make you forget. Let me give you a new memory, esclave.”
“Écarté tes jambes pour moi.”
“Only think of me and what I’m doing. There is intimacy in pain, esclave. Let me make your pain my pleasure.”
“You beguile me when you let go, esclave. Let go.”
“Baise moi.”Fuck
“Ah, esclave, you’re in serious trouble. I’ll never be able to leave you alone now.”
You think you hide it, but I know that darkness in your eyes. It feeds me, calls to me.”
“Je veux te faire crier.”
“You think you’re so fierce with your threats. My job isn’t to wrap you in shackles, esclave. My job is to unshackle you. And as much as you deny it, I’m doing a damn fine job.”
I want to hurt you. I want to own you. I want to devour you. I want to make you mine. I’m already yours.
“Monsters find each other in the dark.”
“Ah, esclave. Tu m'excites comme c’est pas croyable.”
“I want to own all of you, esclave. Including your name.”
“I own all of you, esclave.”
“You’ve submitted completely, and you have no idea what that does to me.”
“Qu’est ce que tu es en train de me faire?”
“Tu es à moi.”
You used me, but you kept me safe.
“I never thought I’d enjoy vanilla,” he mumbled into my hair.
“Smell so good. So fucking good. Like rain… no, no like frost. Sharp and fresh and icy and cold and… and painful.” He closed his eyes, voice trailing into a whisper. “You love c—causing pain.”
Je n’appartiens qu’à moi. I am mine.
“Only think of me and what I’m doing. There is intimacy in pain, esclave. Let me make your pain my pleasure.”
Je suis à toi Q
“As you wish, esclave. Every time I call you Tess, remember I can do anything I want to you. I fucking own you.”
“He opened my cage and allowed me to fly. I can’t help it if my freedom is here.”
“My name is Tess Snow. Not Sweetie, or Tessie, or Honey. I’m a woman only now realizing what she’s capable of. I’m no one’s daughter. I’m no one’s girlfriend. I’m no one’s possession. I belong to me, and for the first time, I know how powerful that is.”
“I came back to be your everything… just like you’re becoming mine.”
“I will never get enough,” he whispered. “C'était la plus grosse erreur de ma vie de te renvoyer chez lui.” It was the biggest mistake of my life sending you away.
“Break your promise. Now. With me.”
“I vow to fight you to the death before I let you break me.”
“This little bird belongs in your cage. No one else.”
“You’re the one, Q Mercer. You were always the one.”
“I promise to protect you, ravage you, hunt those who hurt you, and give you the life you deserve. My fortune is yours. My secrets are yours. And I will give you the corpses of the men who hurt you.”
