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“So the ends justify the means, but only when they’re your ends?”

“Did you know,” Callan began, speaking for the first time since I’d returned with our prisoners, “that you could have stopped this all before it even began?” (…) “At the ball.” (…) “I was standing right next to you then. If only you had been a little more observant, you could have caught us before we took your precious friend.”

4 the 1st time, I’m actually impressed by Callan’s callousness

“What are the odds that Paige and Henry randomly decided to elope and bring Lance with them as a witness?”

What this story shouldda been

“I hadn’t even realized how much I had needed it until I had kissed her.
And those words… I’m safe in your hands. I had needed to remind myself that it was true. That it hadn’t truly been me who hurt her. That I was back in control again.”

“Twisting my arms up behind me, he positioned them so that the back of my hands rested against the small of my back.”

Ooh yikes. With her face pressed to the stone? That’s gonna hurt.

“‘You’re not… afraid of me?’
I hated seeing him like that. Hated the hesitation. The pain and the guilt and the regret. It wasn’t who he was. It wasn’t who either of us were. We carved a bloody path through this world without being burdened by something as ridiculous as guilt and regret. And I couldn’t stand the thought of him feeling that way. Especially over something that he had no control over.”

“For a moment there when he was on his knees, after all the insects were gone, I had actually considered killing him out of sheer spite. Just to prove him right that he couldn’t trust me.”

Idk where the story would’ve gone but I would like you more rn if you had

“Watch that tone.”

New catchphrase alert

“I was once again reminded of how it felt to have her body pressed against mine. To share her breath. Her heartbeats. To listen to that sharp tongue of hers spit wickedly clever insults. . .”

Agree to disagree about that last one

VIBRATING ROD??????? LMAO WHO GREENLIT THAT