Devout (Devout, #1)

by Takerra Allen

I guess the deeper in love we fall the scarier the thought of that love leaving us becomes.

Baby, I’m not fuckin’ stupid. I’m not the nigga that gets the girl everybody wants and forgets she’s the girl that everybody wants. Trust me… I know what I have.”

A Ninja with some sense

But she was a consenting adult, going in with eyes wide shut.

I feel ya sis.

He couldn’t control her past but he damn sure could control her future. Neeka would not be with another man from this day forward. She would be his wife when she was ready for that, they would grow old together, he would die first, and she would die a day later.

Not him telling her when to die.

“You tried to fuck with my man!” Before Eryn could reply, the horror in her eyes turned to guilt and Neeka brought the thick, leather Gucci belt up and down across her wet skin.

🤭🤭🤭

“That’s! Ya fuckin’! Problem!” Neeka hollered out with every strike of the strap, the slapping noise of leather on wet skin giving her a psychotic rush. “Ya! Mama! Never! Beat! Ya Nasty! Ass!”

Yo, I’m weak at this!! 🤣🤣🤣

I’ll change your entire life, Neeka. I swear to God. I’ll rob this whole earth of all good and bring it to you.”

😍😍😍

“Neeka, people put diamonds under magnifying glasses because they can’t find flaws without ‘em.

“You gonna call Joseph, the wise men, and the apostles up in here too, girl?”

Stellar D will have you calling every name in the Bible.

“They say the best unions are made amongst the greatest storms. So maybe it’ll be a fucking hurricane or something on our wedding day,” Daddy offered, getting in himself.

No matter how much you tried to become something else, the person you really are inside somehow manages to bleed through the cracks.

“You should let me tattoo your dick with my name,” I joked and tried to keep a straight face, tracing my finger along the vein of his assassin, still slick with my sap.

Assassin 🥵

“Acceptance is the first step to overcoming consequences of misfortune.”