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“Because I want you to see what I do when I look at you. The strength and poise you wear so elegantly. The determination that burns from within like an eternal flame. You’re a fighter—a survivor. The next time you doubt yourself, look at this drawing. Remember who you are. What you’re capable of. Everything you’ve overcome.”
royce
Hell, there are a hundred different moments in which I fell in love with Riley James.
logan
“Then I’ll just have to show you how serious I am. About you. About us. Especially, because there will be an us again, Riley. I refuse to accept a reality where there isn’t, and just so you know, there isn’t a thing on this planet that I’ve gone after and not gotten. You’re tempting a famished husky with raw meat, and rest assured, I’ll snatch it from right under your nose.”
logan
“Sometimes the dream isn’t always what we think it is. If we’re lucky, it’s better than we ever hoped for.”
“Don’t say I never gave you anything,” he teases as he passes me the cold drink. “Dude, did you just quote One Tree Hill to me? You sad motherfucker.” He barks out a laugh. “You’re the one who recognized the quote. I’d say you’re the sad motherfucker.”
“I’ve waited my whole life for you. I fucked up, and I have my dues to pay; I get that. I’ll happily pay them, seeing as the alternative… losing you altogether is not an option. So maybe you’re right. Maybe you’re not mine, but I am most certainly yours.”
logan
“We just have to get through this first, just… don’t give up on me, okay? Do that one thing for me. Don’t shut your heart off from loving me. Protect it, keep it safe, but don’t shut it off. Can you do that for me?”
logan
“So long as we’re around one another, this chemistry between us will keep pulling us into one another’s orbit. Whenever I’m around you, I want to strip you down and take my time learning every dip and curve of your body,
royce
“I’ve never been this consumed by another person before. What we have is rare and powerful. With time and nourishment, it’ll be a force to be reckoned with. We will be a force to be reckoned with. I don’t believe even you can overcome it.”
royce
“You became an addiction. A craving I had to sate.
royce
“Foolish girl. You’ve just handed your heart over to the devil. There’s no getting it back now. It’s mine, and I plan to keep it for the rest of eternity.”
royce
My daylight and my night, and encased between them, I’ve never felt more protected.
That first morning I woke up to you in my bed: 100/10. Nothing has ever felt more right.
logan
She’s the bane of my fucking existence. And the best fuck I’ve ever had.
grayson
“I’m Grayson,” I tell her, “And I’m pretty sure the last thing I could ever do is hate you.”
“You’ve had all of my attention from the moment you stepped into my house all those years ago. And I wasn’t the only one who noticed you. I had to declare you off limits to the guys on the team because they’d keep saying they were going to ask you out, and I couldn’t fucking handle it.” I sigh wearily. “You’ve always been mine, even if I could never have you.”
grayson
“I can’t hate you, even when I want to. Even when I know I should. For a while there, I’d convinced myself I did, but all it took was one look at you on that stage…” My teeth grind, my pants growing tight. “And the last thing I felt for you was hate.”
grayson
“Not God, baby. I’m the one who has you dripping on the fucking floor while you strangle my fingers. You’ll say my goddamn name when I’m the one making you feel so good.”
grayson
“You’re the person I want beside me for every achievement and happy moment, but you’re also the one I want to share my losses with, wallowing in the hard times. And I want to be that person for you, too. I want to be the one you talk to when you’re angry, whose shoulder you cry on when you’re sad, who you run to when you ace a test.”
logan
“The women in these books may be your heroines, but, baby, you’re mine.
logan
“We’ll keep the demons at bay,”
royce
“In the realm of brokenness, there is one advantage: the remaining fragments are immune to further shattering.”
logan
“You make broken look absolutely stunning.”
logan
“Even on your knees, you wear your crown with grace, for strength isn't defined by standing tall but by rising every time you fall."
logan
“And what a perfect fucking death it would be,” he half moans, half growls, burying his nose in the neatly trimmed hairs of my mound. “To die with your thighs wrapped around me and your cum all over my chin.”
royce
“There is no existence where I’m not better for knowing you, James,”
royce
“Because I see the way he looks at you, as if you’re his whole world.
royce
“You own all of me. Every broken and jagged piece—even the parts I don’t know how to share with you yet.”
royce
You keep the darkness at bay, and on days when it threatens to overwhelm me, you simply sit in it with me.
royce
“You fall; I fall, Shortcake.”
logan
I’ve never wanted anyone the way I need you, and once we cross this line, you’ll be irrevocably mine.”
logan
“Glad we cleared that up. So next time, I am going to paint your inner walls with my cum, then watch as it drips down your thighs, marking you to the whole world as mine.”
logan
You can date and fuck those two upstairs, but you’ll always be mine. You were mine first.”
grayson
“When I’m making you feel so good, I am your God, and it’s my name you’ll scream when you’re coming on my cock.”
grayson
“That’s it. I’m the one making you feel so good. I’m the only one here. It’s you and me, and I’m the one fucking this pretty little pussy of yours. I’m the one ripping you apart. You better fucking remember that.”
grayson
There’s only you and me, and I want to wring every ounce of pleasure from your body before I mark it as mine.”
grayson
“You should have gone to Logan. Now that you’ve given me this, I won’t stop until I have all of you.”
grayson
“Don’t you know by now I’d do anything to make you smile?” “I’m starting to catch on.”
logan
“I’m yours, Riley. You own every piece of my black soul. Don’t ever doubt that.”
royce
“I regret many things, but this won’t be one of them,”
