Rebel (The Renegades, #3)

by Rebecca Yarros

“Everything I told you in Vegas is still true. You’re still gorgeous, still sexy as hell, still everything that draws me in like a damned magnet, but you’re also everything I can’t have. Don’t you get that? When you pull shit like that on the dance floor, you successfully drive me batshit crazy, watching you in some guy’s arms.”

“Woman, I got into a strange car for you. Illegally BASE jumped off a Ferris wheel to stay

close to you. Went to jail for you, and I make you do stupid things?”

“I let you stay in my class. Stupid. I look for every reason to run into you, while simultaneously praying you’ll stay far away because I need this job. Stupid. I take one look at you in that fucking dress, and I’m so hard I’m afraid I can’t hide it in a room full of students. Stupid. I can’t stop thinking about the way you taste, the way you open up under me, the way your nails left little half-moons in my shoulders when I found how wet you were for me.”

“I can guarantee you that any way you use that phrase, I want you more.”

You’re everything I want, everything I need, and I just want the chance to be what you need, too.”

and I’ll be yours when we’re alone, if you’ll just be mine here in this room. Please…just be mine, because this is real.”

You’re the only woman who can make me crazy enough to chance this. You’re the only woman I can’t get out of my head or my dreams. There’s no one else for me, because I’d rather have these stolen moments with you than have a normal relationship with anyone else.”

“This does not speak logic. This stopped working the minute you pulled the turn, and it didn’t begin beating again until I saw you standing safely on the landing deck. This will not listen to reason, because it’s too busy being terrified by how much of it you already own. Do you understand me?”