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“Will you please stop calling me ‘woman’ like it’s a bad word? I hate that!” His piercing gaze on mine, he replies softly, “I’ve never said it like it’s a bad word. It’s the most beautiful word in the language.”
Not killing yourself wasn’t an act of cowardice. It was an act of courage. It takes so much more bravery to keep living when you’re in pain than it does to give up.”
“I’ve wanted you since the first second I saw you, stabbing me to death with those eyes from the bedroom window at your house. This fake marriage includes sex, or it doesn’t happen.”
“I’ll marry you. But if you decide to kill me, wait until tomorrow.” She arches a brow. “Because?” “Because I need to feel those sharp claws of yours dig into my back at least once before I die.”
The priest sighs, shaking his head. “Very well. Do you, Homer, take this woman—” “I do.” “Hold your horses, lad,” the priest mutters. “This isn’t a bloody race.” He exhales hard and starts again. “Do you, Homer—” “I do.” “—take this woman, Reyna—” “I do.”
“Viper. My lovely, lethal wife. You’re fucking perfect, inside and out. Don’t ever worry about disappointing me. You couldn’t. Even when you’re homicidal or hurling insults, you take my breath away.”
Later on, I’ll look back and realize this is the exact moment I fell in love with her.
“I’ll kill anyone who ever disrespects you. I’ll kill anyone who even looks at you the wrong way. If anyone so much as annoys you, I’ll put a bullet in his skull and throw his body into the Charles River. You never have to fight your own battles again, viper, understood? I’ll fucking destroy any dumb motherfucker who ever dares to even make you frown.”
“Fucking hell, you’re gorgeous. My sweet girl. I’d kill an army for you. I’d burn down empires and lay all their gold at your feet.”
“I guess I like that they’re written for women. The whole world is made to please the male gaze, but romance novels only care about what we want. What we need. They’re specifically for our pleasure. Some of the stories are great escapist fantasies.”
“I think you’re a brilliant golden sun in a sky that’s only ever known the black and starless night.”
“You’re a privilege I don’t deserve, but I’m going to spend the rest of both our lives trying to be worthy of you.”
“Make me believe you’re mine.”
“I started to unravel the first moment I laid eyes on you, viper. And even if tonight is all I get, I’ll never be wound right again.”
“Yes, my beautiful Irishman. I’ll marry you. I’ll marry you every day for the rest of forever, because I’ve never loved anything in my life the way I love you.”
