Kept Quotes

“When she turns, I think all of our eyes widen. “What are those?” Enzo asks, in a strangled tone. She shimmies, and the little Christmas puddings attached to her nipples jiggle. “Tassels! I ordered them from the googirl.” Maverick half groans, half laughs. “I’m going to confiscate your card.” “I’ll give you mine,” I breathe in delight. “You can have all of them. All of my cards.” Take my fucking money.”
― Evelyn Flood, Kept

“Ryder grunts, his hand threading into my hair. “Fuck, princess, you take me so fucking well. Like you were made to fit me.”
― Evelyn Flood, Kept

“It’s too big,” I choke, and Enzo laughs darkly. “You’ll get used to it, little prey,” he promises darkly. “Need to get you ready. Ryder.”
― Evelyn Flood, Kept

“Like my whole existence has been a footnote in someone else’s story.”
― Evelyn Flood, Kept

“If you wanted safe,” he drawls in my ear, “you would have run from us at the first opportunity, little prey. You don’t want safe. You want lightning in your blood and electricity in your veins.”
― Evelyn Flood, Kept

“Instead of responding, his hand slaps against the soft, fleshy part of my ass, and I feel a tugging on my braid as he pulls my head backwards until I’m almost facing the ceiling, but all I see are stars across my vision. I can feel him pressed up against me, my head back against his shoulder as he pushes in and out. “Look at me,” he hisses in my ear. “Look at who you belong to, Zella.”
― Evelyn Flood, Kept

“Finally, he turns. “Arms up.” Zella raises her arms obediently and he lifts her from the bed, carrying her across the room and tucking her back in. She looks smaller as she curls back up,”
― Evelyn Flood, Kept

“She stays silent for a moment. “I believe that we are more than the sum of the people who made us, Ryder. We’re every interaction, every relationship, a perfect patchwork of memories. No single person can shape who we are, not if we choose otherwise. So choose, Ryder. Choose Maverick, and Enzo. Choose the people who love you instead of the ones who wanted to destroy you.”
― Evelyn Flood, Kept