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“If she brought me to life with three words—I love you—she slayed me with an equal number. Don’t touch me.”

“I’d been obsessed with Stella Alonso for five years, and I couldn’t bring myself to regret it.”

“I believe in everything when it comes to you.”
Including love.

“I was used to being alone. Even when I was surrounded by people, a part of me isolated itself until I felt like I was watching a movie of my life instead of living it. I had never belonged to someone, nor had anyone ever belonged to me. The idea was equal parts thrilling and terrifying.”

“Christian Harper, are you asking me out?”
“Yes.” 💚

“I want to make a few things clear.” Christian’s lips brushed mine with each word. “Touch another man, he dies. Let another man touch you, he dies. Tell me I can’t touch you…” His grip tightened on the back of my neck as his voice dropped. “And I will fucking die.”

“…I was a romantic at heart. When I found the right person, I wanted to get swept up in that grand, all-consuming love. The type of love that’d compelled Alex to move to another country for Ava, that gave Bridget and Rhys the courage to go against a country, and that transformed years of animosity between Josh and Jules into something beautiful. That type of love existed. I’d witnessed it with my own eyes.”

“Maybe I wasn’t the best driver in the world, but I’d tried.”

“I didn’t want gentle. I wanted passion in its rawest form. I wanted the oblivion that came with pleasure and the knowledge that, no matter what form that pleasure came in, I could trust the person delivering it not to hurt me.”

“That’s it, sweetheart. You can take it.”

“Remember…” “You wanted it hard.” 🙈

“How would you like to be fucked, Butterfly?”

“Tell me.”
“Do you want sex, or do you want to be fucked?”

“I love this dress on you.”

“I thought you don’t believe in love,”

“You’re right. That was the wrong word.” “Because love is ordinary. Mundane. And you, Stella…”
“You’re extraordinary.”

“You must love that dress,” “You’ve worn it five times since spring began.”
“I didn’t realize you noticed what I was wearing.”
“I notice everything about you.”

“..I needed her more than my next breath, and not when I would rather cut off my arm than deny her anything. My resistance crumbled like a sandcastle at high tide. I let out a low curse before I groaned, fisted her hair, and slammed my mouth down on hers. Despite what I’d said about love being a drug, Stella was my greatest high. A temptation with no escape. An obsession with no end. An addiction with no cure.”

“Good girl,”

“With her, I was undone before we’d even begun.”

“I may not be her first, but I would damn well be her last. Because once I took her, I would never let her go.”

“Drop your arms for me, sweetheart. I want to see you.”
It was the closest I ever came to begging. 😩😩

“But if you want to know the truth…” “I didn’t come to watch the photo shoot.”

“Then why did you come?”

“For you.”

“I could watch you count every grain of sand on the beach and it would be exciting.”

“I’d give her ten seconds before I went in after her. It’d been forty-eight hours since our last real interaction, and I already craved her closeness like an addict hungering for his next hit. I’d given up any concept of distance between us. I wasn’t just fascinated with her—a puzzle to solve. Obsession felt simple to me now. I needed her.”

“Darkness was always drawn to light, but I wasn’t just drawn to her; I was fucking obsessed. I would throw myself into her flame and let it burn me alive if it meant her warmth was the last thing I felt before I died.”

“My flickering conscience recoiled at the unseen smears of red against her skin while a twisted, possessive part of me thrilled at the sight. But if there was one thing both sides agreed on, it was that she was mine. And now that she was in my life, there was no letting her go.”

“I wanted to etch every detail of her into my mind until I could close my eyes and picture her as vividly as if she were standing in front of me. Perhaps then I would understand the hold this woman had on me. How could someone so innocent and purehearted have branded herself so deep into my psyche I felt the agonizing burn of it this long after we met?”

“You’re about to have a very bad day when you wake up,”

The way he messed w the president haha I love this 👏🏻

“…May was shaping up to be a shitty fucking month.”

“One of the clauses in our contract,”“is that I don’t fall in love with you.”
“Yes.”
“Why did you put in that condition, Stella?”
“Because I don’t want you to fall in love with me.”
“You and I, we aren’t so different,” 💔❤️‍🩹

“I might be upset and frustrated with my family, but if I lost any of them, I would be devastated.”