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To know fear in its purest form was to live, and life was the greatest gift we were bestowed.
Emotions came in many forms, and love appeared in mass shades. Mine was as dark as it came, and the fixation just happened to develop where hadn’t belonged.
Love may have taken residence in my heart, but love killed.
He was so unlike the other Masters here. He was different. He loved me. He told me he did.
My love for her burned in my chest like a hot poker, stirring things inside me that were dangerous to acknowledge.
Even beat to hell, she was the most beautiful woman I’d ever seen. Maybe even more so
I’m telling you I want her.
I’ve seen…for years. When and what I want of you, I will take.
I had any weakness, it was her.
Twenty-four-six-ninety was going to be mine. He loved her. The longing in his eyes while he hid behind that screen proved that.
Love didn’t tame monsters like me. The stupid fucking emotion only intensified it.
He may treat you well. But you will never want him like you want me.
“You’ll stay with me tonight. You’ll sleep with me so I can hold you like this. I don’t ever want to let you go.”
wasn’t a slave in our moment. I was his.
God, I loved her. I loved her more than what was fathomable.
But hurt you? Yes. And I’d do more than just cut you. I’d mark my ownership all over your body.
“Black is authority. As it happens, I do have other colors. Would you like me to wear something special for you? I could do that. There’s almost nothing I wouldn’t do for you, Everleigh.”
“I fear nothing being with you. Only being without you.”
To see her smile…it was suddenly the only thing that mattered.
everything of his was to be yours. Except Whitlock.
“Some were afraid. I feared they had valid reason. I wanted to make sure every single one was safe.”
am capable of anything. Anything. But I don’t do kids—not the selling, not the sick shit that happens to them. I don’t support it, and you know that.”
loved him,” I whispered. “This isn’t real. It can’t be. Bram’s not dead.”
“Stay strong, Mistress. Don’t let them see your fear.”
I am assigned to Mistress Davenport. Not you. She is under my care from here on out, and abuse of her person is not something I will tolerate.
Just because I don’t mind killing, doesn’t mean I’m capable of everything.”
“My little sister is in there. We do what we must. We can do something
Amongst a throne, behind stone walls, the emptiness will not evade me. But there is one, one girl, one sun. If only she could save me. Broken bones bend to the beat of my heart, falling. Love is death.
am the shadow over your shoulder. Look up. There I am. Do you feel yourself growing colder? Let the devil love you, the shadow projects delusions. Imagine what that sort of love is capable
It was too close. Too similar to his mindset. To her.
This was Bram’s sweet Everleigh. The love of his life. And she was mine to destroy or love in any way I saw fit.
Death and I are secret lovers. We take turns fucking each other every chance we get. Today, it’s my turn to be on top.”
“For who am I, if not a man? I’ve asked myself that question a million times. The answer evades me like the damned. And I must be damned to have been placed in this hell that swallows me by the day. I once thought by discovering the truth of what I queried it would set me free. But do cursed men ever find peace for their tainted souls? “Maybe I’m asking the wrong questions,” I read, glancing at West. “Maybe I’ve known the answer all along: love. “I once loved a woman. Once…no, I love her still. Her presence haunts the empty cells inside me, weaving in and out of the dark crevices like a ghost
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