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“ I’ll disobey him. I’ll never be with anyone else but you.”
Struggling not to cry, I say, “But you took a vow. You told me you’d have to—”
“I’d kill him before I’d betray you. I’d burn his whole empire to the ground before I’d turn my back on the woman I love.”
”

AH BOY U GONNA GET GOT CHILL

“After I recover, I murmur, “I’ll be there as soon as I can. Tell me you love me again.”
I hear the smile in her voice when she answers. “I love you, bossy man. You’re my life now. Come back to me soon.”
I have to disconnect without answering.
I can’t.
Because for the first time since I was a boy, I’m fighting back tears”
🥲

“Also…” I cringe. “I might have…sort of…threatened to shoot him.”
After a beat, Kage rears up to an elbow and says loudly, “What the hell did he do? Did that fucker touch you? I’ll kill him!”
His tone is murderous. I can’t help but find that romantic in a twisted sort of way. “No, honey. He didn’t touch me.”
😭

“ squint harder. “Injured, bleeding, with no luggage, you spontaneously flew cross-country. Here. To see me.”
He takes my face in his hands and gazes down at me, letting me see everything. All the need. All the longing. All the dark desire.
“That’s where people go when they need to feel better: home”

😩

“I wait a split second for his companion to turn and face me, then shoot him in the chest.
I never shoot a man in the back. It’s unsportsmanlike.”

Ah yes because we would hate to be a poor sport

“I can hate him later. Right now, I’m out of my head.
This—this is why people make bad decisions in love.
This feeling of euphoria. This pulse-pounding, skin-burning, soul-baring feeling of being so completely alive. This pleasure that starts as an ache and explodes into fireworks with something as simple as a touch.”

This is lust bbg

“Um…Kage?”
“No matter what happens, let me handle it. You’ll be fine.”
“Why do I feel like we’re walking into a lion’s den?”
His chuckle is dark and humorless. “We’re not. They are.”

🫦

But until I hear that, I have to tell you, Natalie, that I want to fuck your sweet cunt and your perfect ass and your luscious mouth and anything else you’ll let me fuck, because you are the single most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen in my life.”
Make time then Tuh if a man EVERRR said this diabolical shi to me he’s blocked n I do not care cuz it’s giving u js trynna fuck

I don’t have time to fuck around—excuse the pun—with the kind of wooing I’d usually do to win you, so that’s why I’m being so blunt.
Mm nah

“ Her shellacked gray curls quiver. “Aquaman,” she says in a stage whisper.
“Who?”
“The man by the window who looks like that actor in the movie Aquaman. What’s-his-name. The big brute who’s married to the girl who was on The Cosby Show
What is it with old women and him?? Literally so many of the books I’ve read authors have said the mc looks like him and is the finest specimen on earth