Wicked and the Wallflower (The Bareknuckle Bastards, #1)
Rate it:
Open Preview
17%
Flag icon
“I hope to eventually love my husband, but I needn’t be consumed by him.” “You wish to do the consuming.”
17%
Flag icon
She wished to be wanted. Beyond reason. She wished to be ached for.
17%
Flag icon
“You wish for him to fly into ...
This highlight has been truncated due to consecutive passage length restrictions.
17%
Flag icon
“When you are ignored by the stars, you wonder if you might ever burn bright.”
29%
Flag icon
“Felicity Faircloth, you’ll burn me down.”
30%
Flag icon
You’ve never felt passion; you think passion is sweet and kind and good—love beyond reason. Protection. Care.” Resentment flared. “Not think. Know.” “Let me tell you about passion, Felicity Faircloth. Passion is obsession. It is desire beyond reason. It is not
30%
Flag icon
want, but need. And it comes with the worst of sin far more often than it comes with the best of it.”
30%
Flag icon
“She belongs to me.”
35%
Flag icon
“I wish to be wanted.”
59%
Flag icon
“It’s strange. All those times we’ve met in darkness, and I’ve only ever seen you in sunlight.”
73%
Flag icon
“You are the most remarkable woman I’ve ever known, and if I have only this moment—this present—with you, then I wish to make you burn until you’ve made the stars jealous of your heat.”