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He looked criminal, filled with wicked intent and handsome enough to tempt the pope to sin.
Including the fact that my fiancé had left me for my sister.
this is reminding me of king of sloth
“You know, it is the contrast between two opposites that heightens them both to keener glory. You shouldn’t be afraid to be coarse, just as I shouldn’t be afraid to be gentle. Too much of one thing is boring, Elena.”
every woman must be a fighter, Elena, because history has tricked men into thinking women are less.”
“This is what you must understand, Elena. They are wrong. Women bear the trials of their men, the delivery of their babies, the weight of their families. Women are extraordinarily strong. So, you must trick the men into giving you power. Do not tell them you are strong, and do not fight them with words because words can be undone. Fight the injustice with action, lottatrice mia, because action can be understood in any language, by any man.”
“I’m wearing heels bigger than your dick, so if this is a pissing contest, I think it’s safe to say I win,”
God, I was so fucking tired of being alone.
Elena Lombardi was an acquired taste, something to be appreciated by only the most refined palette, the most exquisite mind. As deep and brilliantly complex as expensive Italian wine, and the more I learned about her, the more I wanted to drink her down like a glutton and force her to be mine.
“I haven’t had to fight someone so fat before. It’s a lot of weight to offset.”
he stood behind me, close enough I could feel his heat, and reached around my body to tie the fabric around my waist.
“Mmm,” he hummed, the vibration tickling thin skin. “You smell intossicante.”
Marco hooted, slapping his thigh. “Didn’t I just say? All women like vamps. It’s a thing.” “You’re a lady whisperer, Co,” Frankie remarked dryly over the sound of Chen drilling the mount into the wall above the dresser.
“Not all love is romantic,” he pointed out rationally, staring into my fearful eyes. “I don’t think you’ve had enough of it to know that, but I’m offering the love of a friend and the love of my body. The love of a man who can see you are not hateful. You are not villainous. You are misunderstood. And Elena, you don’t realize this yet, but I see you, I know you, and I’m fucking undone by the beauty of you.”
“You can take it. I’ll make you.”
What I said was that a man in love has one weakness, his woman. It’s his Achilles’ heel. But that same love makes the rest of him impenetrable, strong as a god.”
Good, Elena, you play while I play you.
“What? Capos need cuddles too.” “Ridiculous,” she muttered, but a smile haunted her lips.
“Sono pazzo di te,”
