Nicky the Driver (Underboss Insurrection, #2)

by Cate C. Wells

“Women aren’t action figures, man. They don’t lose value ’cause someone got in their box.”

“She doesn’t believe it, but she is. She always has been. She’s a good thing in an ugly world, you know?”

If you talk about something, does it make you want it less?

She’s my strength. If I hadn’t found her, my lungs would’ve taken on water years ago, but she saved me.

It’s strange how they set us up—we’re supposed to be beautiful, skinny, and silent, but the love we’re given, it’s always rich in butter, always sweet and forbidden.

You can’t love someone just because they love you.

“You know I’d do anything for you,” he says.

But men like us are always the architects of our own destruction, aren’t we? Wanting what we can never have.”