Shattered Vows

by Shain Rose

Too many romance novels and movies made me long for something I didn’t need.

If curiosity killed the cat, I guess I was about to find out exactly how.

“I take it back. It will be a good enough time in the car.” “No. This would be a time you’ve had with many other men.”

My heart fluttered like I cared. I didn’t. This was a bad idea. Still, the fire lured me in.

learn from the dark nights on the streets

“pleasure awaits you and then death.”

“For someone who rode my cock all night and screamed my name, you’re sure in a hurry to get back to your regularly scheduled programming, piccola ragazza.”

“You stare at the ocean like a mermaid who belongs there, little girl. It’s a different experience with you.”

“Happiness is on the surfboard and in the truck for me.”

The water wasn’t a place I went to think. It was a place I went to escape and be held hostage at the same time. I needed this. I was addicted to it but it was one of the only places I felt free.

“Pink Princess, Kiss of a Rainbow, and Black-Suit Pricks?”

“You’ll be fine when I’m gone, I think. So much fire in you, even when you let the wind and water take your mind away half the time.”

For some reason, I cracked up with her admission and the lines on her forehead disappeared as she smiled big. Brilliant. Beautiful. And brutal. That’s what that smile was. She’d wreck my world if I wasn’t careful.

“You know, as a child, my father almost had to save me a few times out there. He used to say to be cautious. She’s beautiful but if you’re not careful, she’ll eat you alive.”

“Maybe he would have said the same to me about you.”

“Morina Bailey, you’re like the ocean. Pretty without trying, alluring without knowing, and I think you might be just as devastating. You could probably eat me alive.”

“Well, you can’t dominate the ocean, Bastian. And you can’t reason with it either. The ocean is the boss. Treat her that way.” “Her?” “Sure. Only a woman could handle all these men riding her and come out on top every single time, right?”

My boobs, my display.”

“You can’t overcome the darkness and reach your reward if you don’t go down the path and find out what’s there, Morina. We’ve got so much going for

“Morina Armanelli, you’re like the oceans you love so much. Swift and beautiful in every decision you make. So fast, ragazza. And I wonder how an ocean can mix with sand and filth. You flow over all the jagged parts of the world, and I’m there like sand, moving over each one trying to smooth it over and make it right somehow. Yet, I’ll always leave filth behind. I don’t know if we can survive that together.”