Sea of Ruin (Sea of Ruin, #1)
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Read between December 19, 2024 - January 6, 2025
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“I didn’t ask for you. Yet here you are, an ungrateful, quarrelsome hoyden, born with both fists clenched.”
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“Unhand me, sir.” I thrashed, trying to dislodge his immovable grasp. “Do it now, or I’ll lop off the dull, inanimate fellow between your legs.” “Captain,” he said in a bored tone. “Call off your hell-born blowsabella before she hurts herself.”
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The devastation was too powerful, the pain too big to hold.
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“I love him so viciously I would die for him.”
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My heart died a thousand deaths before I found my voice. “Priest.”
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“If you loved her, you’d leave her be.” “That weak mentality is precisely why you’re still alone.” Priest
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Leave him alone, he’s just a baby
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The strength in his hands was diabolical, the sensuality hypnotic. Only a demon could be so potent.
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BARK BARK
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“You won’t feel like a man in a moment when this distance between us starts to bore me.”
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👀👀👀👀👀
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“You promised him I would be a man of his fortitude and spirit. A man who loves you above all else. Only you. And we shall be blinded by our love for life and beyond the ends of the sea.”
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He was, quite unfortunately, a handsome son of a bitch.
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Unfortunately? 👀
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“I’ve never met a siren, but you must be of the same ilk or nature. Unchristian, mysterious, dangerously enticing… If you think to lure me with those eyes and enchant me to shipwreck, you have the wrong sailor.”
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YOU SURE ABOUT THAT
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“I never imagined,” he murmured, “that a view could pertain to the sense of touch. Yet when I look at you, I don’t just see beauty. I feel it.”
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HELP?!
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“Love isn’t a decision. It arrives unannounced, breeds madness, and leaves a sea of ruin in its wake. Hate him or love him. Either way, he’s in certain hell.”
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“You are so gratifying to the senses. So clear and absolute.”
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😭
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We were meaningful together. Intricate. An unlikely bond formed in the dwelling place of souls.
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I AM UNWELL
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We were but two people who came from and belonged to the sea, reaching for each other because it felt right.
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My heart
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fierce eye contact, raw, untamed beauty… God help me, everything about you is such a welcome freedom from the tedious, rigid order of my life.”
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Hes just a baby
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Sir John Dycker
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what a name. This guy is bound to be awful
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“Mind your fingers, my lord,” Ashley said. “She bites.”
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I knew this level of evil existed.
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Good god that was tough to read
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He was shaking as viciously as I was, worse even, as he unraveled the blindfold and removed the gag.
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Sobbing!?!!?
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Cold blue eyes. Full lips pulled back into a snarl. A savage expression bathed in so many layers of fresh blood it was unrecognizable. “Ashley.”
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Djshjsjs
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And with a deafening boom, he was gone.
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My heart hammered so hard I saw black spots.
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How are you even surprised bennet??? Like genuinely lmao
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before the sand runs out,
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WHAT
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At last, with an enraged grunt, he surrendered his weapons.
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What are you doingggg
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I spotted Reynolds and Jobah as they cut down every brute in their path.
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BABIESSS 😭
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Jobah’s dark warm eyes stared back. Dear God, it was a relief to see him.
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Why did this make me tear up
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I had a terrible weakness where my helmsman was concerned. I let him get away with all manner of insolence, only because he had the purest heart of any man on my crew.
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I love her friendship with jobah. I was so afraid he would die
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“I rowed a jolly boat out to sea and set it afire.”
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Just a baby
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“Jesus.” Reynolds coughed into his fist.
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HAHAHA
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“You’ve been at it for nigh two hours.” Reynolds pushed up from his position on the floor and ambled toward the ladder. “I think I’ll go vomit now.”
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Wait i love reynolds sm
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“The great purpose of life is love.” I met him stare for stare, my heart beating loudly and clearly behind every word. “To know with certainty that we exist, we must love and be loved, even through the pain. It’s the inexplicable fever inside us, which drives us to battle, to sacrifice, and to surrender.
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I wept. How could I not? The
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Pls me too
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Love prevailed, not in the windless calm of life, but in the ruin.