Mate (Bride, #2)
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“Can you, though?” A male voice interrupts him. It travels in our direction from some place in the thicket of trees. A rich, slow curl, at once vicious and detached. No answer exists that could faze this voice. “Can you really, buddy?”
Smellbee
Oh we are SO BACK!!!!!!!!!!!
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Alpha.
Smellbee
GOD WE ARE SO BACK
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diametrically opposed
Smellbee
Ok
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Vocabulary. That’s what stands between me and understanding Koen.
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“Hearing you verbally acknowledge your limitations brings flavor and spice to my life.
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Koen could use an adult, instead of a cute little ball and chain combo that only slows him down.”
Smellbee
HARSH
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“There are three things I believe with utmost certainty. Death will come for all of us. No matter what, the sun will rise every morning. And Koen is never, ever going to touch you. Not even if you beg him for it on your knees.”
Smellbee
Eat shit
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Cute, how she thinks he’d ever let her out of his sight.
Smellbee
These parts are my favorite parts of chapters
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It projects right inside my head, and listening to its bidding is like an itch that…I could help scratching, but why would I, when obeying feels so good?
Smellbee
Hey. Hey, Ali? Ali. Hey, hey Ali. I love u.
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In my ideal, remarkably unremarkable future that will never be, I’d go to a job I love, come home, make dinner for someone whose face was in my head and heart all day long, and spend the rest of the night watching boring TV shows with them.
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“I…” A tear slides down my cheek. I cover my smile with the palm of my hand. “I just realized that I’m going to need some sunscreen.”
Smellbee
:,)
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I observe him for a while, wondering whether it’s normal, feeling—feeling so much about a single person. Surely, it’s unfair. Surely, a love this deep should be reserved for the universe as a whole. But what if, to me, he’s the linchpin? What if he’s the stitch that keeps it all together?