Good Game (The System, #1)

by Madison Fox

Content Warning This book contains sexuality explicit situations, including role-play and spanking, and explicit language. This book is by no means a guide to the BDSM community.

It’s that feeling of having butterflies in your stomach and throat at the same time; you’re not sure if you want to laugh or throw up.

Chase was the one sticking his hot dog in various buns. I can’t believe Daniel had the gall to act like my vagina wasn’t good enough for him.

“What if I pour this entire bottle of wine into a bowl and drown myself in it.” “While death by wine sounds like a classy way to go, I’m going to advise against it.”

There is just something about someone who makes it their entire life’s mission to outdo you when you have never been anything but nice to them that just sends you a little over the edge.

“You look devastating.” His voice comes out low and deep. “Like a goddess dripping in gold, and I’m just an unworthy mortal blinded by your beauty.”

“Asking you for your number.” “What number? Apartment number? Phone number? Body count number?” Always a bit of a brat, this one. “Social security, actually. I was really hoping to steal your identity and open multiple credit cards in your name so that I could fund my addiction to Cadbury chocolate.”

When your life is based online, it breeds a certain level of anxiety around privacy.

“Stephanie. If you keep grinding your pussy against my ass, I’m going to turn around and fuck you on this bike faster than you can say ‘oh.’”

I knew this girl was going to ruin me, but I think she is going to be my complete destruction. And I will happily let my castle crumble around me if it makes her happy.

it is important that I invest my time in someone who accepts every part of me no matter what.

in the short period of time that I’ve known her, she has completely crushed my world and rebuilt it around herself. My universe doesn’t revolve around the sun, it revolves around Stevie.

She’s the king on this chessboard, and I’m just a pawn charged with protecting her.

I might play the hero in video games, but I’ll be the villain in life if it keeps her safe.

“I know I’ve been a complete mess, a zombie. I’m acting like my world is falling apart, when really, it’s yours. I’ve been selfish, and it’s because I can’t bear the thought of losing you. You are the blood in my veins, my heart beats for you, but I’ve just injected a poison into my bloodstream, and I don’t know whether it will kill us or not.”

“I’m sorry, Aleks,” she mumbles. I kiss her forehead. “I told you, Stevie. Good days and bad days, we’re there for each other. I’ll never give up.”

One look at her, and I feel powerful enough to take over the world. She is my goddess, and whether I’m a god standing beside her or a disciple at her feet, I will worship her until my dying breath—and even then, I’ll follow her into the afterlife.

Every game I play, I play to win. But I’ll lose against Stevie every time if it means she wins my heart.