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The Dex-Files (Experiment in Terror, #5.6) The Dex-Files by Karina Halle
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“I was head over heels in love with her. No, that didn’t describe it. I was tear my fucking heart out and throw it at her, beg her to take it into hers. I was falling from the greatest heights with no safety net below. I was giving everything of my own life for hers, giving up every inch of my soul so she could wear it proudly. I was a former king on my knees in front of the queen. A jester begging for a chance. I was powerless, helpless and at her mercy.”
Karina Halle, The Dex-Files
“She was mine. For the sake of appearances, she was my wife, but she was mine anyway. She didn’t know it yet, but I did. It was wrong and it made no sense, but she belonged with me. No one else, not anyone else.”
Karina Halle, The Dex-Files
“(“Yeah, work that mustache, you stud, chicks fucking dig the rapist look”)”
Karina Halle, The Dex-Files
“I wanted nothing but her, now and forever.”
Karina Halle, The Dex-Files
“The Dex Foray special involves two lubed fingers, a lot of tongue and a cigarette for afterwards.”
Karina Halle, The Dex-Files
“Oh, I had no fucking idea what I was thinking about. All booze plus no meds makes Dex a crazy boy.”
Karina Halle, The Dex-Files
“I need you,” she said with such determination that it was like declaring war. I watched her lips as she said it.
If she wanted war, she was going to get war.
I smiled.
Then I threw caution to the wind and did the thing I’d been dreaming about doing. I lunged for her, grabbing her face in my hands, bringing her mouth to mine.”
Karina Halle, The Dex-Files
“I was a gentleman over everything. An ass-appreciating gentleman. We are the finest kind of man. I should open my own ass-appreciating gentleman’s club one day.”
Karina Halle, The Dex-Files
“I wondered if the owners would mind if I murdered someone in their front yard. A big red-headed someone. He was so full of shit, he’d make fantastic fertilizer for their garden”
Karina Halle, The Dex-Files
“Now it was my time to blush. Except that I’m a man and I don’t do that.”
Karina Halle, The Dex-Files
“The song ended, but I kept my arms wrapped tight around her, not letting her move an inch. If she was having some internal battle again, she could do so in my arms.
“Watcha doing, wifey?” I joked, secretly enjoying the sound of that.”
Karina Halle, The Dex-Files
“You, sir, are asking for trouble.
….
Fuck trouble. I wasn’t asking for it.
I was inviting it.”
Karina Halle, The Dex-Files
“I knew what song was next and I knew who I was dancing with. My wife.”
Karina Halle, The Dex-Files
“Jenn said something about taking a picture to make it last longer. I didn’t need to. That moment would always be burned in my head. That moment when I knew that I was way in over my head. I was fucked.”
Karina Halle, The Dex-Files
“Guess that’s a thing you still do. You know, look like a douchebag.”
Karina Halle, The Dex-Files
“I didn’t want to be Red Fox’s saviour, but I wanted to be hers.”
Karina Halle, The Dex-Files
“To cement my point, Dire Straits came on and after Perry proclaimed her sudden (and surprising) love for the band, the douchefucker stood up and asked her to dance like he was a Cajun Rhett Butler.”
Karina Halle, The Dex-Files
“Sometimes you can foresee certain moments in your life. For me, it’s usually a moment based on a lie. Cause and effect. You lie, you hide something from the world and you know one day someone will uncover the truth. And you know when that happens, it won’t be pretty.
It will be ugly.”
Karina Halle, The Dex-Files
“She needs to let loose, I thought you could help her.”
“Isn’t that your job?”
“Not yet.”
Karina Halle, The Dex-Files
“With one hand she popped the button on my pants. She dropped to her knees. I got hard instantly, knowing what was coming next.
Me.”
Karina Halle, The Dex-Files
“In an ideal world I could do hellish things to her and she’d love it but in this world I came to save Perry. No one else seemed to give a shit.”
Karina Halle, The Dex-Files
“Anger was so much better than fear. To be the one inflicting pain was better than being in pain yourself.”
Karina Halle, The Dex-Files
“The power of the anger flowing through me, the urge to get back to Perry while I could, had raised me into another level of consciousness. In other words, I was bat-shit crazy.”
Karina Halle, The Dex-Files
“I didn’t put the sword into her. I only gave her the sword.
She’s the one who just put it in me.”
Karina Halle, The Dex-Files
“How pathetic this town must be to find a fuckup like me as their savior.”
Karina Halle, The Dex-Files
“And that was the one place I swore I’d never be again.
To love was to hurt.”
Karina Halle, The Dex-Files
“Saying goodbye to something or someone after that long of a time, even if it brought you pain and misery, is hard. It’s like living with a gangrene foot. You know you need to just whack it off and you’ll be healthier for it. But damn if you don’t feel some sort of emptiness when your decaying foot is gone. You look at the end of your leg expecting to see it there in all black and rotting but there’s just nothing but air now.”
Karina Halle, The Dex-Files
“I don't know what I'd do if this wouldn't go father. Jack off for eternity, probably.”
Karina Halle, The Dex-Files
“Sometimes you came across women who had every-thing going for them…looks, personality, smarts, and they had NO fucking idea what they were worth. How amazing and beautiful, they were, how they oozed sex and secrets. Then you had those women who knew they had what you wanted and used it. Repeatedly. Just to get what they wanted. It was an unbalanced universe.”
Karina Halle, The Dex-Files
“I just want you to enjoy all the pies in life, Perry," I said, gazing at her, trying to get her shy eyes to meet mine. "That's all.”
Karina Halle, The Dex-Files

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