Voracious (The Edge of Darkness, #2)
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Started reading September 9, 2025
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It’s over. It’s been over for two years. He’s wrong. If it was over, then what the hell has this entire trip been? The sex. The kiss. The need to hold me. We aren’t done.
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She could be singing a musical horrendously off-key with food all over her face, and I’d still see her as my own fucking angel.
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“I love how romantic you are,” she says. “I know you keep saying you’re not, but you really are. You’re just as needy as me.”
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“What are you going to do when I go to Hawaii with my family in January?” “Burn your passport before you can leave.”
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“You’re doing so good, Freckles,” I say, kissing below her ear as I thrust harder. My voice is shaky, but I keep praising her. “Taking it so fucking well.”
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She’s like my own sunrise. Beautiful. Perfect. She fills a part of me that’s been empty and dark for as long as I can remember.
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She sold me to a married couple for two days then had to clean the mess up because I killed them both. I don’t remember skinning them alive, but apparently I did the wife first while the husband watched.
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well I mean that's what you get when you buy a person and then drug them
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“One of these days, I hope whatever you drug me with kills me. Then I’ll be free of you.”
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I’d trust Base blindfolded and on every drug possible before willingly getting into a car with her on a public road.
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my husband at me
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It’s like a mixture of love and not being able to breathe unless she’s around – thoughts that run wild wondering what she’s doing, where she is, if she’s thinking of me. It’s the butterflies that flutter like maniacs when I know I’m going to see her soon. The Stacey Rhodes Effect.
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eyes wrinkling at the corners as I smile. “The world would need to hide if we ever had children. They’d undeniably be heathens.”
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“Because I love you. I’ve been in love with you for ages – it’s been all I’ve thought about. And I keep falling more in love with you every single fucking day.”
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“Because I was worried about our friendship! Which obviously needs re-evaluated if you need to keep such a thing from me! You even lied that you only had one brother – not two! Who does that?”
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How in the fuck you gonna make this about you rn
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“I don’t want him arrested; I want him dead.”
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“I asked you, and you said you fell. Another lie.”
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Wow you suck dude
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“It’s not real. It’s a learned emotion. He taught himself how to feel things he couldn’t, but it’s not the same.”
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Ok dude really like really f u c k y o u u u u
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Maybe if I die, I’ll reincarnate into a dog. Stacey likes dogs. She’ll cuddle me.
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“Make them go away, Freckles.” “Make what go away?” I manage to ask. “The voices.”
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Kade: Run and hide. Unless you want everyone to witness me fucking you? Having an audience won’t stop me – I’ll take you in front of the entire party.
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“Ty moy, Vesnushki.”
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You are my freckles
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“Always such a good girl when you’re on your knees for me. Taking every inch, your throat welcoming me home.”
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“I knew you were delicious, Freckles,”
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She rolls her eyes. “Like I’d ever cheat on you.”
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“Stop trying to control everything, Luciella. I’m surprised you even have any fucking friends left.”
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True dat
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“If your family can’t get the job done, I need you to watch Stacey. I need you to keep Stacey safe for me while I’m gone.”
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I wanted to tell her that I’ve already broken rule five. That she can have every fractured shard of my heart, if only she knows how to fix it back together – but I’m an asshole, and I broke her heart instead.
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But do I want a future with her? Undoubtedly yes.
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“I want to know everything. Do you hear me? Everything. Don’t you dare leave the manor without security, and you stay by Barry’s side. When you all fly over here, I want a meeting set up with him.”
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Daddy Tobias
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Staying silent and in your head just invites the bad thoughts inside, with no one to keep you on the right path.
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Look at me now, my little princess. Daddy’s gone, and he’s never coming back.
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He reminded me of what it felt like to be alive.
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