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“I’m the leader of the Deadly Seven,” he replied. “Kill me and you’ll face the eternal wrath of my family. You might even trigger the apocalypse yourselves.” His golden-eyed gaze bored into Alice as he spoke to the rest. “Keep my mate from me and you risk triggering my dark side.”
He’d never felt so powerless until this moment. Until Alice needed him and he couldn’t help her.
“Pride is just a human emotion. Sin is a human invention used to implement fear in order to control.”
it is for Daisy that you must swallow your pride. You must accept assistance in any shape or form. Daisy has sacrificed enough.”
“Pride is a double-edged sword, Alice. It can drive someone to great heights, but it can make you lose your wings. He doesn’t need someone to help him fly, he’s got that down. He doesn’t even need someone to break his fall. He needs someone strong enough to fly with him into the sun and hold him when it burns. Do you understand?”
“I hate that I need you so much it hurts. That I want to fuck you senseless every time I smell you. That there’s this animal part of me that cares nothing for decorum or decency. It wants to bite anyone else who comes near you. It wants to devour you and feast on you until there’s nothing left.” His eyes fluttered at the memory of her intimate taste, craving it with a passion that made him painfully aroused.
“I’m not perfect,” he confessed. “My hand isn’t.” He threw up the bionic hand in her face. “Sometimes there’s a delay and I need it to be perfect.” Her brows lifted in the middle. “And what do you think will happen if you’re not perfect for once? The world will continue to turn, the—” “I might let go of you!”
“Shibari is more than knots and bondage. It’s sensual. It’s about this: the trust; the intimacy; the surrender.”
He tried not to think about the rope he’d tied on her earlier and how next time he would like to see that rope against her bare skin, no clothes in the way. Maybe a purple color this time. His color. Maybe he would tie her within a star formation, criss-crossing all over her skin.
“They’re not lies, Parker. You of all people should understand that. I have sinned. I am going to Hell. There’s no sugar coating it. Excuses or blame don’t work here. The only thing that does work are prayers for forgiveness.”
“No, Alice. I’m showing you how proud of you I am. So much that it fills me every minute of the day to the brink and I spill over and reach for your calming touch. Don’t you understand?” She lifted her chin, the eternal warrior. “All I’m doing is being near you, Parker. I’m not actually doing anything.” He grazed his knuckles along her cheek and felt the sin ease from his body like an exhale. “My darling Alice. All you need to do is exist and I’m falling into you. Falling in love with you.”
“You’re a miracle, Alice,” he said. “Not a sin. Not evil. Not anything but pure perfection.”
Parker, the tall brave genius who had the world wrapped around his finger, didn’t think he was good enough for her, the Sinner.

