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I also wouldn’t deny, and I’d kill anyone who did, that when I saw her across that crowded room, and the world stopped and her eyes met my gaze, from that moment on… She was mine.
“One day, the spring tide will bring a selkie to you. She’s yours, this magical creature… you’ll have to decide to let her go or to hide her seal skin, so she can never leave. If you let her keep her the skin, she might leave sometimes, but she’ll always come back. If you hide it, one day, she’ll find it and leave for good. Or so the song has it.”
Níl aon comhtharlúintí ann, níl ann ach cinniúint There are no coincidences, only fate
It wasn’t just her small and curvy body, waist-length black curls, or dark all-knowing eyes. It was the wicked curve of her smile.
If Ronan was the brains of the family, Killian the muscle, and me the disappointment… Quinn was the O’Connors’ beating heart.
“If you’re asking if I’m going to pound this guy and anyone else who challenges me into the ground, then the answer is yes — swiftly followed by you.”
“You’re going to come with my fingers in your cunt and my name on your lips, and nothing is going to stop that… so just let go, wee one.”
“I’m making sure I have your attention. This cunt right here is mine, got it? Don’t even think about letting anyone else touch it, taste it, lick it, or get within five feet of it. You shouldn’t even get wet for another man… I’ll know,”
I wasn’t stealing anyone’s skin.
She’d rage against the robbery of her freedom. My selkie… caught on shore by a selfish man. I was that man, after all. I’d stolen her skin, and I wasn’t giving it back.
“What do you say, wife? You’ll let me come inside you? Let me fill you up,”
“Did you really not know?” he murmured against my forehead. “Know what?” “At the wedding, did you really not know we’d end up here, like this?” I had no answer for that. It was hot, honestly, and worrying as hell.
“You, selkie, are my dying wish.”
“Which is all a long-winded way of saying that no matter how we met, where, or when… I’d fall in love with you every time, in every eventuality, selkie. There’s no version of my life where I don’t love you. That’s what fate means. I was fated to love you, and I will be here, unwaveringly doing that, until you come back to me.”
“I believe you,” I told him. It was true. I had no doubt. “You do?” He tipped his head to the side. “Why?” “Because you returned my skin.”
