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She came here for protection, but that was the last thing she was going to find.
I was the king, and this was my kingdom.
Corium University is where high-profile criminals around the world send their children.
People who are enemies will work together to bring you down because a rat is a loose end, and loose ends can bring empires to their knees.
No, I need a new way to calm the storm inside me, and that way is going to involve Aspen Mather.
“What I want are your screams, your tears. I want you weak and immobile. I want you begging me to stop while I take and take until there’s nothing left to take.”
All she’s worried about is her stupid little book, and I fucking hate it. I hate that she is ignoring me.
“No one goes into her room besides me. No one touches her besides me. No one torments her besides me. She is mine and mine alone. If I find any of you are doing anything to her, I will cut off your balls and shove them down your throat. Is that clear?”
“I want you to remember who owns you here. I want you to remember that I can do whatever I want to you, whenever I want to. Say it. Tell me it’s true.”
Nobody tells you that grief is like living two lives, one where you’re forced to move on and go day by day living, and the other where your heart bleeds with every thump. A wound that will never heal.
“Pretend you don’t want me. In fact, pretend for both of us because now that I’ve had a taste of you, I don’t know if I can ever go back.”
“Marking you will show him you’re mine. It will show others you’re unavailable.”
Yet, here we are, needing each other in some weird fucked-up way that should have never happened. One thing is clear. This… whatever this is, it’s not going to end well.
As fucked up as it is, she is my missing piece. The calm to my storm, the virtue to my wickedness.
She is a drug I can’t shake, forbidden fruit dangling at the top of the street, and I’m starving.
Every day, I learn she is a temptation I cannot afford to want, yet I’m not strong enough to deny either of us what we crave.
Fear immobilizes you. It consumes you even when you don’t want it to.
“What did you do?” My voice cracks, all my emotions giving way.
There is no way she survived a crash like that, yet I somehow hold on to the hope that she did because the thought of her dying because of me kills me.
When Ren finally looks at me and replies, my entire world flips upside dow...
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