Execution (Off Balance, #2)

by Lucia Franco

"Why did you not answer my calls? Are you upset with me? Because fifteen minutes ago you asked me to come over, then you send me a very erotic photo of your pussy. Then you ignore me. You are sending me mixed signals."

We were forbidden chemistry. A lethal attraction.

"I would love to get inside your head. It would be insanely sexy to know your deepest, darkest thoughts."

"You are already in my head, baby. More than you know."

"V tihom omute cherty vodyatsya." Our eyes met. "Still waters run deep,"

'Under calm waters, the devil waits patiently.'"

"You want to kiss me. I can feel it,"

We were on the same page, more than one could fathom. We had nothing and everything in common. It made no sense.

I took a risk for you. Now take a risk for me and drop every fear you have ever had. Go out there and be defiant. Refuse to lose.

I was a cub, and he was the lion who breathed strength into me.

I opened up and landed with both feet together on the blue mat, my arms raised above my head, and stuck my dismount. I nailed it. I fucking nailed it.

"If you still feel that way when this is all over, then when you walk into practice Monday morning you make up for it. Give me all you got, and I will take it and more. I promise you, I will take you for everything you are worth, but do not let your emotions soar so high that you lose it all in a ninety second routine. That fear will make you fail. Do not fail."

I will always be by your side, that is, if you will have me.

You make me happy.

Coach: I have drank myself into a stupor this week. Every time I take a sip of vodka I pretend it is your lips I am kissing. I am drunk on you That's actually pretty sexy, I like the visual. But what if you lick the vodka off my lips instead…and off other places?

smiled to myself and wiped away the lone tear that fell. It felt good to reject him. He called a few more times and each time I shut him down. I bet he was regretting his actions now. You get what you give. Asshole.

I was a liar just like them. Possibly the dirtiest with the most shameful secrets.

"To make the impossible possible, you have to twist the situation around so you're not the only one left with your back against a wall. Everyone needs a hero, but you have to save yourself first before you can save everyone else."

"By the way, I would find you anywhere."

"You said you are going to move so I cannot show up whenever I wanted. Ria, I will always find you. You have a part of me that no one has ever had, as I do with you."

I wanted to crawl inside a hole, light myself on fire, and die a painful death.

Ignorance at its finest when someone else is trying to heal another's pain.

Kova was married. Kova was married. Kova was married.

We were the same, yet we were not, because I'd never, ever hurt someone the way he hurt me.

Prosti.

I loved Konstantin Kournakova.

I fell for this beautiful, Russian man, who slowly destroyed me, and I had no one to blame but myself.