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“Look. It stopped raining, and there’s a rainbow . . . It’s beautiful.”
“Yeah . . . it is.” She’ll never know I was looking at her, not the ocean.
“Good to know, love. But the first time I fuck you won’t be because I offered you a job.”
“No, love. I wanted to sleep with you before I thought about the position. The fact that you happen to be exactly what I need for the foundation is just a bonus.”
“Having a beautiful woman asleep in my arms isn’t a hardship.”
“So yes, I have no doubt there are women who’d like to trade places with you. But I don’t want any of them. I didn’t invite them into my home. Just you.”
“I haven’t agreed to anything yet, Your Highness.”
“You’re going to call me that on your knees one day, little bee.”
“I’d trade my next fucking breath to kiss you, but you better be sure.”
“I’ll give you everything you ever want, Bellamy. But your body . . .”—I slide my hand down and cup her sex—“your cunt, is mine. And I’m going to take my time with you.”
“You will never be my crisis, Bellamy.”
The only thing I’m sure of right now, in this insane moment, is that this man is staring at me like I’m the last string of sanity he has to cling to, and I refuse to rip that away from him too.
“I hate the idea of hiding you.”
The right man will raise goosebumps on your soul.
“Before you nearly concussed me, I couldn’t take my eyes off you. From the first moment I saw you, I thought you were the most beautiful woman I’d ever seen. It was like you’d been placed right in front of me, making it impossible for me to miss the next big thing in my life. You took my breath away before you nearly knocked me out.”
“I had Joss buy you every imaginable piece of lingerie, but I swear to God, you in my clothes, even three sizes too big, is the hottest fucking thing I’ve ever seen.”
“Even across an ocean, you’ll still be mine. . .”
“But will you be mine, Rhys?”
“You’re fucking right, I’m yours. Now show me how you kne...
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“I’m not so sure about that, love. I think marrying you may just have been the smartest thing I’ve ever done.”
“And I’ve wanted you from the first moment I saw you on the island. I’m not going to let a law from centuries ago determine whether you’re fit to rule by my side.”
“What’s worth it?”
“Isn’t it obvious, little bee? You . . . you’re worth it.”
“Fucking love waking up with you in my bed.”
“She’s better than you, Windsor. She’s better than all of us.”
Some girls watched Beauty and the Beast for the beast. I watched it for the library. —Bellamy’s Secret Thoughts
“Because I can’t lose you” is a pained admission ripped from his chest. “Not the way I lost her.”
“I have loved you since the very first day I met you, my queen.”
“More than my kingdom, my love.”
“I love you too, Rhys. Not your title or everything that comes with it. Just you.”
“But can you live with the title and everything that comes with it? Can you love me in spite of them?”
“It’s all a part of who you are. Loving you means accepting the crown. And you are worth it.”
“You are my true north, love. You are my direction. My reason why.”
“You are the love of my life, little bee. You. Not my country. Not my crown. You. I just want you.”
“You are the most important thing in my life, little bee, and I’m going to fucking worship you . . .”
A king doesn’t protect his queen because she’s weak. He protects her because she is his.
Raise your children to be so certain of their worth and their place in the world that even the loudest voices can’t rewrite their story.
