Dark Devotion Quotes

“He saw through my façade of bravado and called me out on my bullshit. It was both terrifying and thrilling, and it made me wish he wasn’t my stepfather. It’s one thing to enjoy being spanked by a lover; it’s something else entirely to enjoy being spanked by someone who was once married to your mother.”
― Cora Kent, Dark Devotion

“Maybe we can make some magic happen.”
― Cora Kent, Dark Devotion

“I’ve been a mess ever since. I love Christine. I’ve watched her grow up from pain in the ass teenage girl to pain in the ass young woman. I didn’t have feelings for her before, but now they’re unavoidable. And when she stands in front of me in a thin shirt with her nipples poking through the fabric, it’s hard to resist her.”
― Cora Kent, Dark Devotion

“Chris,” I mumbled.
“No,” Dante grunted as he forced me into my bedroom, “you leave that girl alone. You’re going to get your ass beat by the Lucatello brothers if you don’t cut this shit out.”
“You’re right,” I slurred, the words coming out in a sloppy mess of unintelligence. “She couldn’t love me anyway. I’m old.”
Luciano snickered as he came back into the room with a cup of water for my bedside. “You’re about to be thirty, dumb ass. You’re not old.”
“You’re only saying that because you’re old, too!” I accused.”
― Cora Kent, Dark Devotion

“Christine is more than just my stepdaughter; she’s my favorite person to be around, even when she’s being a pain in my ass.”
― Cora Kent, Dark Devotion

“I might have fucked up by spanking her, but it improved my mood. My head feels a little lighter, but maybe that’s the meds talking.”
― Cora Kent, Dark Devotion

“Part of me wants to keep going until she apologizes. Another part of me knows that if I do this much longer, I’ll flip up her skirt and forget that I was once married to her mother.”
― Cora Kent, Dark Devotion

“If you’re going to act like a child, you’ll be punished like a child.”
― Cora Kent, Dark Devotion

“Usually, I would love to see my stepdaughter traipsing around in a half opened dress, an invitation for me to chase and pin her to the ground for its removal.”
― Cora Kent, Dark Devotion

“I still didn’t know how to take care of a teenager, but I was willing to learn. I would do whatever it took to keep Christine safe and happy because she was right: it’s what Caterina Lucatello would have wanted.”
― Cora Kent, Dark Devotion

“The day I found out I was arranged to be wed, I ended all my relationships. I never looked at or touched another woman until the day my wife died.”
― Cora Kent, Dark Devotion

“She moved heaven and earth for her daughter, and that kind of love was admirable.”
― Cora Kent, Dark Devotion

“I’m her stepfather whether you like it or not. Where were you when your sister was dying? Because I was at her bedside every. fucking. night. You know who wasn’t?” Niccolo didn’t give either of them men a chance to respond. “Her brothers. Do you know who made breakfast for Christine when Caterina was too sick to get up? Me. Who was there for Christine at the funeral? Me. Who’s been there for her every day since? Me. If you’re her support system, you fucking suck.”
― Cora Kent, Dark Devotion

“It's bad enough that I’m forty,” she stressed, “I can’t be forty and infirm.”
― Cora Kent, Dark Devotion

“He was handsome with dark features that stirred something unexpected inside me. Whenever Kaye and I saw him walking around the house shirtless, we dissipated into a fit of giggles. His physique was unmatched, and I swore to my best friend that I’d find a man like him someday—a man who looked like a Greek God and treated me like a queen. I envied my mother for finding someone that loved her.”
― Cora Kent, Dark Devotion