Better Run Quotes

“The champion wrestler, 15 years of experience, taken down by a small woman and seasoning?” He flashes his teeth in a feral grin. “I think I’m in love.”
― Alina May, Better Run

“You're a woman with heart, mind, and body. We want to worship every last piece of every last part of you. Whether you give it willingly or not.”
― Alina May, Better Run

“I don’t know. I was young and wanted to save the world. I didn’t realize that saving the world still doesn’t help you save yourself.”
― Alina May, Better Run

“She wants to fight me; I want to make her helpless. She likes to feel afraid and restrained; I like to make her that way. Entirely at my mercy.”
― Alina May, Better Run

“Soon, kitten. Very soon.”
― Alina May, Better Run

“She wants to fight me, I want to make her helpless. She likes to feel afraid and restrained; I like to make her that way. Entirely at my mercy.”
― Alina May, Better Run

“The sooner you get this, the better things will go for you. You belong to me. You belong to him. We control the very air you breathe. Your orgasms. Where you go and what you do. You’ll be our good little pet, or we’ll punish you. And punishments only get worse from here.”
― Alina May, Better Run

“Would you prefer I call you pet? Put a collar on that pretty little neck? Yank you around by a leash?”
― Alina May, Better Run

“There you go. You want to act like a bad girl, you'll have to take it like a bad girl.”
― Alina May, Better Run

“re-bandage”
― Alina May, Better Run

“I pick up my phone. Jayden’s voice bites, “What’s going”
― Alina May, Better Run

“my shoes and socks.   I grin as I pick up my phone. Jayden’s voice bites, “What’s going on?”   “It would appear our little prey has managed to escape for the moment.”   There’s a deadly silence.   I head to the door to turn off the alarm. “Don’t freak out, brother, we’ll get her.”  “Fuck,” he growls. “I’ve been calling you for five minutes.”   “I was indisposed for a bit. She knocked me over the head.”   “Christ, I knew”
― Alina May, Better Run

“phone ringing in the distance.   I start moving”
― Alina May, Better Run

“spice container.   “Shhh, back to sleep, little one.” He bends down to pick the cuff off the floor.   I strike, whipping the covers back and slamming my weapon into the back of his head.   He crumples and falls to the floor, unmoving. I stare at his large form. For a second, I feel bad.   No. I scramble to put the cuff on him, then pat him down for his knife.   Fuck! He doesn’t have it. I check again, panic rolling through me. I can’t believe that worked. I look around the room and then throw on my extra clothes.  Cole still lies motionless. I pause. He’s still breathing. I take his shoes and socks off too. I put the socks on myself and take the shoes with me.   I do a quick search of the living room. There! His knife is sitting by a half-whittled horse. I grab it and sprint to the door. This is when my countdown really begins. I don’t know the code for the alarm. Jayden is going to know as soon as I get out that door.   I take a deep breath and run outside. 13 COLE I groan.”
― Alina May, Better Run

“throwing his paper plate in the trash, and stalks out of the room.   Cole grins, “I think you broke him.”   I found something that shattered his tightly held control. In my head, I dance around. It’s the first excitement I’ve felt since I was taken. I keep my face impassive. Score one for Jo, fucker. I reach across the table to get another piece of bacon.   “How’s your foot?”   I glance up at him and stop chewing.  “Why would you care?”   He stares at me, then voices lower, “Why wouldn’t I?” He looks at me like I’m a puzzle he’s trying to solve.   “It’s fine,” I lie.   Jayden doesn’t emerge from wherever he went for the rest of the morning. Cole is staying in the basement as far as I can tell, and occasionally, he’ll bring a satellite phone up and go outside for a call. I convince him to show me his room downstairs. There’s a game room with a pool table, and his bedroom is off to the side. In it, there’s a desk with paperwork and a computer that looks like it’s from the early 2000s. As well as old baseball posters on the walls.”
― Alina May, Better Run

“Not house-trained yet, I see?”   Jayden grunts, “She has the manners of a feral cat.”   They go back to eating. I glare at both of them. Cole winks at me.   “Crawl,” Jayden demands.   “What?” I growl.   “Crawl.” He leans back with a satisfied look on his face.   My face burns. Fuck this goddamned fucker. I cuss him out in my head as I drop to my hands and begin crawling. The skin between my bones and the floor is thin. The room goes deadly silent.   I look up.   Both men have stopped what they’re doing and are staring at me with raw hunger in their eyes. It makes the blood rush to my core.   Fuck. I didn’t want to like this. I couldn’t like this. I lick my lips against my dry mouth.   There’s the telltale click of a picture being taken. Jayden has a phone out and looks at me with cruel, cold eyes.   I get to the legs of the table and move to stand. Jayden growls, “Did I tell you to get up? You’ll stay on your knees in front of me until I say to move.”  I freeze and glare at him. I imagine sawing his”
― Alina May, Better Run

“CHAPTER ONE Mary Jo I hang my keys from the hanger shaped like boobs,”
― Alina May, Better Run

“I'm going to tear into you until you fall apart for me. And once I hold your pieces, I'm never giving them back.”
― Alina May, Better Run

“You text my dead mother a video of you kissing another girl to make me jealous because you know I have her phone. There was no ‘please’ then.”
― Alina May, Better Run

“I hold out my hand for the knife. She seems hesitant. Like it’s a life jacket and she’s drowning in the ocean. “My mom gave it to me,” I say. She looks at me. I don’t tell her that it’s cut the lips, eyelids, foreskin, and asshole off a man before. I wanted a dull knife to draw out his agony. Like he did for me.”
― Alina May, Better Run

“For a second, I think about listening to the girl who took my life by storm. The girl whose sass and fight and hate have breathed life into my dead soul.”
― Alina May, Better Run

“His dark eyes flash to me. “Loved? Do you even know what love is?”  I cross my arms, anger flashing through me. “Do you?”  He takes another draw, letting the smoke out slowly. “No. I suppose I don’t.”
― Alina May, Better Run

“This doesn’t seem safe.” He laughs, “It’s not.” He throws a devilish look over his shoulder. “But I’ll protect you.”
― Alina May, Better Run

“You don’t even deserve to breathe the same air as her.” He”
― Alina May, Better Run

“We’ll have every part of you. Even that rebellious spirit you try and keep locked away. You’re ours, kitten.”
― Alina May, Better Run

“That tone, kitten.” Jayden’s voice is full of dry warning. “I’ll give you one chance to apologize for being a brat.”
― Alina May, Better Run

“He’s the warmth. I frown. “What am I doing here?” “Cuddling. Which I must say is very uncharacteristic for my snarky girl, but I love it.” He pulls me into his body and kisses my forehead.”
― Alina May, Better Run

“You will never get away from me. Do you hear me? You’re mine. There is no escape.”
― Alina May, Better Run

“Three. If you run, I’ll punish you.”
― Alina May, Better Run

“Good. Now there are a few rules. One. If you try to attack me again, I’ll hurt you. Two. I won’t hurt you if you listen to my rules. So listen to my rules.”
― Alina May, Better Run