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Hemlock, Nightshade, Cortinar, and Snakeroot. Four deadly plants. The four houses of Sorrowsong University. What university has houses? It’s straight out of a creepy fantasy book.
“I see through your act, Alex. If you think I can’t see that you’re decaying from the inside out, you’re sorely mistaken. Stay away from me and I’ll return the favor.”
Disrupt or be disrupted, Ophelia.
The Corbeau-Greens played a heavy part in my parents’ death, of that I am certain. Somehow, someday, I’ll make that public knowledge. I’ll bring their dynasty to its knees. I just need one final piece of proof.
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“I don’t want sympathy, Divya, I want revenge.”
“Wear your hair down, Twist, because that’s how I would’ve wanted it.”
I’m allowed to think he’s pretty and hate him all at once.
To be loved is to be known, and this week, I feel both.
There’s few feelings worse than someone making you feel stupid for your interests.
“He didn’t deserve it.” My shoulders tense. “The date?” “That dress.”
In the nineteen times it’s happened in my head, my first time on top of you didn’t look like this.
“Don’t make me chase you.” I take a step back. “I have stamina.” “I’d rather find that out a different way.”
“The passenger seat of my car, the couch in Carmichael’s office, my fucking bedsheets. You’re everywhere.”
“You’re too good a woman for a man like him.” “And you’d be better?” A dark chuckle vibrates in his throat. “Ophelia, love, I’d be significantly worse. But I can’t watch you with him.”
Stay away from me. You don’t know what I’ll do to you.
“He probably still sends out his Snapchat streaks in the morning.”
“Worried about where your mind will go if left unoccupied.”
The fire beneath her skin is missing. Does she know I’m fighting for her? Does she believe she’s worth fighting for?
“I know. I know, baby. I’m so sorry.”
“I’m too complicated, Alex. I’ll only ever hurt you in the end.” “I hate it when you say that. It makes me want to punch whoever put that idea in your head.” “You want to punch everyone, all of the time.”
“I’ve built my walls too high.” “They’re worth the climb.” “They aren’t.”
“They are. For me, they are.”
“Whatever it is that makes you think you can’t be loved, we’ll work through it.”
He feels so good. He feels like home.
For my own sanity, let yourself be loved until midnight.”
“If you end up being the death of me, Winters, I couldn’t ask for a better end.”
“Stop looking at me like that, Alex.” His hips grind into mine. “Like what?” “Like I’m the only woman on the planet.” His eyebrows shoot up in very convincing surprise. “There are other women on this planet?”
“Oh man. Corrupting you is going to be great.”
At some point in the last two months, he’s become the closest sensation I have to a home.
I have some real abandonment issues for a girl who’s never really been abandoned by anyone in her life.
Hey, Dr. Harwood, I have Daddy issues and I want legs as earmuffs, help.
“Then I’ll love you with the same intensity that you hate me. I’ll hold on to you just as hard as you push me away. I’ll fix you like you’re fixing me. I’ll always be here, Ophelia, I’ll sit at the bottom of valleys and stand on the top of mountains with you. We’re too good not to work.”
Forget dying for her. I’d live for her. I feel like I could overcome all the darkness inside if only it meant I’d get a life in her company in return.
He sees me and he knows me.
“We need business cards. We fuck like professionals,”
“Wherever you want, love. It’s home if we’re there.”
