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Busy being fucked up, down, and sideways by my fake husband.
you can be lonelier in a crowd of people than you can when you’re all by yourself.
“There is nothing wrong with loving love. People deserve to be happy. Even rotten bastards like us.”
I know her body almost as well as my own at this point. The curves and edges of her. The places she likes to be touched. I want to revisit all of them now.
Amongst everything I don’t know, there’s one thing that is undeniable: I want her.
The weight of the night disappears while I’m inside of her. Nothing matters beyond her breath on my neck. The weight of her in my arms. And when she cries out, clamping down around me as her orgasm pulses through her, I’m convinced she’s the single most important thing in the world. So I close my eyes and give her everything I have, too.
“Are you insane? You’re engaged to a kajillionaire right now. This is literally the setup to half of the romance novels I read.”
“A girl needs to be wooed. It’s important.”
Men need to be taught. Trained.”
“That must be why I can’t find a man worth dating,” Jorden ponders. “Because I’m looking for one that has already been trained.
“I hate it,” I repeat, moving towards her, “because every set of eyes in the room would be locked on you. I’d have no choice but to claim you as mine in front of everyone.”
“If seeing you in the dress is bad,” I breathe, “then fucking you in it must be unforgivable.”
“Straight to hell,”
“I’m already going to hell. What’s another sin on the way down?”
With Cora, I want to be with her more than anything, but I can’t.
Out of sight, out of mind.
The one thing it all taught me is that when the going gets tough, you run as fast as you can and never look back. People abandon you. You abandon people. It’s the twisted, knotted-up circle of life.
I just want to cry ‘til I fall asleep and then sleep until I’m dead.
I’ve seen the way Ivan looks at you. He doesn’t look at you like he wants to kill you; he looks at you like he wants to devour you.”
“The reality is, Cor, you are my best friend. I know it doesn’t always seem that way, but having my entire life flipped upside down because of you made me realize that you’re one of the most important people in the world to me.
I’ve realized what’s important to me through all of this and I've decided something: wherever you’re going, I’m going, too. I won’t let you take off on this adventure alone.”
It’s that I can’t marry her. I can’t be with her—because of my own bleeding fucking heart.
If she can’t be a decent mother, she might at least be a decent source of information.
If you sacrifice yourself now when it’s no longer necessary, you aren’t a hero—you’re a coward.
“You have to take care of yourself before you can take care of others,”
“Why? Why don’t you want to trust me?”
“Because it isn’t safe for you. The closer you are to me, the more danger you’re in.”
She chuckles miserably. “Funny, because the only place I’ve ever felt ...
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“Later, when this threat is neutralized, I’d like to hear you say it…on your knees.”
“And Cora… you know I didn’t murder Katerina, but I need you to know something: I will kill anyone and everyone who gets between me and you. Any soul that lays a hand on you dies. I won’t hesitate and I won’t ask questions.”
“I know you will, Ivan,” she says softly. “Please be careful.”
