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I wanted to ignore him but couldn’t stop myself from replying. To be ignored felt like a cut in one’s chest, and it made me sick to think I’d ever make someone else feel that way.
“One look from you, and women swoon at your feet.” He was growing annoyed with me. “Yet here you stand.”
“You want to know why I don’t touch you?” I shook my head. “Because if I did, I wouldn’t stop. Not until I’d snuffed out that pretty fire in your eyes.” His gaze flashed. “Don’t shut yourself in a room with me again, Gianna.”
“Should have known you would be this perfect,” he murmured.
this man would run for the hills the moment he became aware of my daddy issues.
“You are so right. A lot of men struggle with impotence. It’s nothing to be ashamed about.”
all I wanted was to not fear the past in the dark, if only for a moment. “I guess it’s as they say,” I whispered, “the bee has a sting and honey, too.” We all searched for strength in life. Unfortunately, mine just happened to lie at the end of a line of powder.
You weren’t there. You weren’t there for me, just like everybody else.
She’d thrown her goddamn shoe at me.
As she should
“Wouldn’t you want someone to believe in you, even if you knew you couldn’t do it?”
“You’ll never be done with me.” He grasped me by the throat, pushed me back against the car, and swallowed my next breath in his mouth.
“Ty samaya krasivaya zhenshchina kotoruyu ya kogda-libo videl.”
He took the plate from my hand and slammed the door. I sighed. My neighbors sucked.
“You look like a traffic cone,” he told me.
S volkámi zhit’, po-vólch’i vyt’.
“What do I taste like?” His eyes drifted back up to mine. They were so deep and serious they held me captive. His next two words tugged at my heart, even though I didn’t know the meaning. “Kak moya.”
She thought I liked her. I’d gone out of my way and followed her around for goddamn years just to look at her.
“I was a whore to you when I was ten years old wearing my pink church dress. That word is a little worn out, Papà. Can’t you think of something a little original?”
“Every time you touch something that belongs to me, I’ll fuck up something of yours.”
YES GAWD
“What if someone arrests me while you’re in the bathroom?” “I’d bail you out.” “If you couldn’t?” “I’d be locked up beside you.”
“There are plenty of women who could make you happier, Christian.” “You’re the only one I want.”
“You’re not even Catholic!” “I’m whatever you are.”
“Why do you kiss me?” I sighed into his mouth when he kissed me with a sweet pull. “Because you’re the only woman who’s ever tempted me.” His lips brushed mine. “Because you love it.” The last one was soft, with a possessive bite. “Because every part of you is mine.”
“I’m always thinking about you, malyshka.”
“How about because I love you, Gianna? Because I think I have since the moment I saw you? Because if you weren’t in this world anymore, I would find a way to take myself out of it?”
“Somehow, she got mixed up with a pimp in the Bratva. We all knew when she had a client because they would always knock three times and it would shake the entire one-bedroom apartment we lived in. It was a never-ending cycle. Couldn’t get any sleep with the sounds of fucking going on in the other room until four in the morning.”
“She tried to fuck her own son.”
Omg
