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I remember whose love she came back for and whose killed her.”
There is no one like me, and if you were really paying attention, you’d stop putting me after everything else.
I don’t have any grace left to extend you. Because I’m spectacular, and I deserve to be treated as such.”
Pop off Sylvie 👏🏻👏🏻 and Evan get your act together!
She can rule a room of men with far more power than her, but what she wants to know is that she has you, because the only person she really wants to know she has dominion over is you.”
“It’s about a woman whose husband loses pieces of himself every time he kisses her. But he loves her so much he simply can’t stop. So he goes on kissing her until there’s nothing left of him and he disappears.
She’s grieving him even while he’s still in her arms because she can see the end of their time together each time, with each kiss.”
You can’t love someone without losing parts of yourself.”
“If you don’t trust yourself now, trust who you were when you loved her. Trust you would only love someone who had your best interests at heart.”
“For what it’s worth, I think you deserve more love than you’ll let yourself receive. Look for someone who gives it to you in a way that you can take it,”
Theodore Andrew Reynolds – Friend, Protector, Hero.
‘I wanted to tell you that you’re really brave. You’re brave how you fight, but you’re braver how you love—with your whole heart. I understand why they both fell in love with you. Don’t lose that. Even if it hurts. Don’t let them lose it, either.’”
TEDDY 😭😭😭😭😭
I was open and vulnerable, and scared. I left myself out there for you, and you crushed me.
“Leave the scar,” he whispered. “Why?” He swallowed hard. “Better to have a visible scar than one I can’t see that still hurts.”
“This ring and this scar are bookends on our love. The start and the end, both beautiful and ugly. I like to keep the truth of that close at heart.”
SHUT THE FUCK UP 😭😭😭😭😭
But since she’d arrived, he’d finally laid down his charcoal and stopped drawing her. Finally, he saw her as she truly was—someone he could never capture.
I love you very much, but I can never be to you again what I once was. It makes our time together mean no less. It makes me feel no less affection toward you. It’s simply true.”
“It’s not easy to let go,” Cece whispered. “Sometimes you think you want something, but what you need is to let go. I was lost to you before you ever had me.”
Cece wasn’t the damsel in distress. She was the knight in shining armor.
Even if I’d known you would wreck me, I wouldn’t surrender any time with you,”
What I promised you, I will always promise you. What I promised you can’t be promised to another. But I will try to find new things in myself to promise.”
“I love you, Cecilia Reznik, and I always will. And because I love you, I will let you go.”
Love was different things to different people, but to Xander and Cece, it was the same. Love was being seen and understood. And that was the love they could both keep.
“I am releasing you so that I can hold on to a part of you I couldn’t otherwise have. You gave me something I desperately needed. You saw me when no one else d...
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“What is yours is no one else’s. What is mine is mine alone.”
“This isn’t the ending. It’s the start of a new story. Trust me. I’m an expert at storytelling.”
One last time, he stared into her eyes with all the love in his heart, and she stared right back. Because she could meet his vulnerability with her own.
Xander grinned. “For learning names? No, I’m afraid I don’t have people for that and I would very much like to know yours.” “Why?” “Because I have a thing for exceptional women.”
“Why don’t we spar and I can try to earn your name?”
Most men are too weak, too proud, or too busy looking up from their backs at me.” Xander grinned, an old fire stirring to life in his stomach. “Truthfully, I enjoy this view.”
“Can I offer you a piece of advice, Your Grace?” “I suspect I’d like anything you offer me,” he said.
“The point of life is to live, right? Not to endlessly chase down death. Why shouldn’t you try something new?”
“It speaks to your loyalty that you carry your commitments in your heart even after the obligation has ended.”
“I was coming to save you, you stubborn ass.” Evan choked on a startled laugh. “I know. You were so beautiful tonight, it distracted me.”
I have spent every moment since we met trying to earn your love with gifts and surprises when I should have just told you that I am so ridiculously, inconveniently in love with you.”
No more telling you to wait. There’s nothing else I want to wait for. I’d marry you tomorrow. I love you. Please don’t leave me.”
“Yes, I’ll marry you. Now don’t make me almost get killed so that you’ll set a date. Let’s do it right now.”
THANK GOD
Although Rainer had always been cautious, he lived for the spark he saw in Cecilia, unsure from one moment to the next if she would burn the world down or shine much-needed light into dark places. She had always been worth the risk of finding out.
“I see nothing wrong with a king who shows his love so freely. Why shouldn’t he still have love and respect for a woman he made vows to?”
This world doesn’t reward weakness, so trust that if you’re the person she shows the broken parts of her heart to, then she must really love you. She must trust you.
Maybe happily ever after is just all of us trying to pick up the pieces and move on, however messy, emotional, and imperfect that may be.
Nothing fun ever happened in a library. Of that, Evan was certain.
Babes weren’t you there earlier lmao
“Darling, I will never command you,” Xander said gently.
Rainer smiled at the remaining guards. “Touch her and I’ll make sure you die drowning in your own blood.”
It’s just that all of you Saveros think you’re so different, but you equally overestimate your ability to charm women.”
It wasn’t Vincent’s torture that had her sobbing. It was that Rainer was hurting but still sending reassurance through their bond.
“Are you offering to take his place?” Vincent challenged. Rainer looked up at her sharply, but Cece said nothing. “I am,” Xander said.
SHUT THE FUCK UPPPPPPPPPPP
It was Cece or his kingdom.
I’m afraid that this is the thing I cannot come back from.
Rainer’s love surged through their bond, mixing with his fear and her pain. You’re not alone, it seemed to say. That broke her.
Rainer’s love surged through their connection. It reminded her of the way he’d followed her through the wild, the way he’d promised that he’d follow her into any darkness.
