Twisted Hate (Twisted, #3)

by Ana Huang

though I could do without removing vegetables from other people’s orifices for a long, long while.

There were probably a hundred poor souls walking around with low self-esteem so Josh Chen could sail through life with an ego the size of Jupiter.

Only a few things in life were certain: death, taxes, and the fact that Josh Chen and I would never be friends.

“On a scale of one to ten, how badly do you want to fuck me right now?”

“You need someone to bend you over and fuck that attitude right out of you.”

“You’re my personal hell, Red.” He gave my hair another sharp tug. “And God help me, I don’t want to fucking leave.”

“Everyone changes. Without change, we might as well be dead.” It would’ve been an inspiring quote had Alex not delivered it with all the emotion of a block of ice.

I’m open to bribery if you would like to get back into my good graces.”

“She understands me in a way no one else does, even if our worldviews are fundamentally different. When I’m not with her, I wish she were there. When I am with her, I want that moment to last forever. She makes me want to be a better person, and when I think about a world where she doesn’t exist…” His jaw flexed. “I want to burn every inch of it to the ground.”

I wasn’t crying. I was expelling excess moisture. That was all.

“Because you’re mine,” I said against her mouth. “Let another man touch you, Jules, and you’ll find out just how easily I can take a man’s life as I can save one.”

Grief wasn’t one emotion; it was a hundred emotions wrapped in a dark shroud.

“Trust me. I’m a doctor,” I added with a half smile. “I know everything.”

“I’ll take that as a compliment.” “You take everything as a compliment.”

because in a world where I was surrounded by death, she was the only thing that made me feel alive.

“The monsters in our imagination are often worse than those in reality.”

“You’re insufferable.” “So you keep saying, yet you missed me and you’re on a date with me. What does that say about you?” “That I’m a glutton for a beautiful punishment.”

“Sometimes, people change. And sometimes, they meet people who make them want to change.” “And sometimes, people sound like a human fortune cookie.”

THE GREAT THING ABOUT HAVING A MORALLY questionable best friend was that they didn’t question you when you did morally questionable things.

“There’s no letting you go, Red. It would be easier if you asked me to tear my heart out with my own fucking hands.”

“Because you’re it for me. Whether it’s today, tomorrow, a year, or decades from now, that’ll never change.”

Because the possibility of you is better than the reality of anyone else.”

I pissed myself off sometimes for more reasons than I could count.

“In case it’s not clear, I fucking love you, Jules Ambrose, even when you drive me crazy. Especially when you drive me crazy.”

“I never found the right time to tell you I was banging your brother.”

Alex was as sentimental as a porcupine was cuddly,