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He sucks you in, body and soul, with no chance of escape while he destroys every last bit of you.
He looks at me like I’m a possession. I like being possessed by him.
Funny, she said she was good at reading people, but yet she’s gone blind to the devil directly in front of her.
She will not cower from her roots, yet she bends like a rose bush for my brother.
Her thorns may bite, but ultimately, he will clip them off until she’s left with a weak backbone that will easily snap beneath his hands.
Abusers don’t only manipulate their victims, but they get off on making other’s believe that they’re upstanding people.
“He’s good. I’ll give him that.” When I frown, he clarifies, “He’s broken you so effortlessly, the pain hasn’t even hit you yet.”
“If you end up
in my handcuffs, it won’t be because I’m arresting you.”
“The only way I want to own a woman is by owning her pleasure. I want her body to sing for me—a tune that only I can hear. I want her body to gravitate towards mine like a moth to a flame. And I want her to grow to dislike the feeling of being so empty when my cock isn’t inside of her.”
I hate that being around Ryan feels like standing next to a tornado, while his brother feels like finding safety in a storm shelter.
I don’t want to save her. I want to fucking take her.
She’ll be back. As much as she wants to deny it, she’s as addicted to me as I am to her.
The gaslighting and manipulation are what convinces victims to stay and endure.
He’s proposing to me the same day he fucked another woman. How poetic of you, sweet Ryan.
“Mako here has enlisted himself as my personal knight in shining armor, no matter how much I’ve tried to show him I’m the dragon,”
Ryan and River are no more. Now it’s just a lunatic and his prisoner.
give him a wicked little smile. “It’s my turn to be the punisher.”
Ryan is rage.
“The only thing I’ll be stained with is your blood, Ryan. Somehow, I don’t think they’ll mind that too much.”
Finally, I found a home.
Seeing Mako kneel before me like a knight would a princess, I question why I never wanted him to save me.
I’m worthy. I’m strong. I’m independent. And I’m a survivor.
