Blackmailed Marriage Quotes

“In the beginning, ten years ago, their marriage had been brutal, verging on a nightmare. She knew other women had it far worse. Against all the odds, she had found happiness and love.”
― Sam Crescent, Blackmailed Marriage

“I don’t know what you did, Aria, but you’ve done something to me, you see, I’ve never felt like this, and I know I’m never going to feel this way about anyone ever again.”
― Sam Crescent, Blackmailed Marriage

“Dante glanced down at his hands. On his wedding finger was the band Aria had slipped over his finger. When she did it on their wedding day, he’d felt such contempt toward her. True hatred. It was unlike anything he’d ever felt before in his life. Only now, staring at the ring, he knew he would never let Aria go. She was the love of his life.”
― Sam Crescent, Blackmailed Marriage

“She had fallen in love with Dante Gallo—the husband she didn’t want and had hoped to set free. The only problem was, she no longer wished to be free. This was so cruel.”
― Sam Crescent, Blackmailed Marriage

“A few months ago, this would have been welcome to him. Aria had said she would be able to get the evidence. He had no idea how she did, but now he hated it. This is not what he wanted. All he wanted was his wife.”
― Sam Crescent, Blackmailed Marriage

“None of your girls interested me, Phillip, and quite frankly, neither did you. You’re the bastard son of the Pesci family. You have earned your reputation through blackmail and manipulation. That is all you have proven to me, and why would I want to join a family when the head is that way inclined?”
― Sam Crescent, Blackmailed Marriage

“I could keep her. It was the oddest thought. They had been married for nearly a year. In fact, tomorrow was the anniversary of their marriage. In all that time, he could have kept her. He could have had this, and yet he’d not taken the gift that had been so freely offered to him.”
― Sam Crescent, Blackmailed Marriage

“In all his thirty-five years, Dante couldn’t ever remember a time he was so close to losing control. What had Aria done to him?”
― Sam Crescent, Blackmailed Marriage

“No other man had ever touched her. Aria is mine. She belongs to me. All she knows is my hands, my touch, my mouth, my cock, my everything. He’d never considered this before. Never thought of what it meant to have a woman all to himself. It was addictive.”
― Sam Crescent, Blackmailed Marriage

“He had never considered Aria to be beautiful. Not a classic beauty, but he was starting to see there was more to beauty than mere looks. He’d been with many different beautiful women, but all had a cruel and jealous streak about them. Aria wasn’t malicious. Even when she was telling him the truth about their marriage, she was only speaking the truth, and he could handle that.”
― Sam Crescent, Blackmailed Marriage

“Dad, don’t, okay? I’m the one that fucked up, and this is the consequence of that. Aria’s nothing like her father, and according to my staff, all of them have fallen in love with her. Trust me, I didn’t task them with helping her. They were horrible to her, and still, Aria found a way to win them over. That is quite an accomplishment.”
― Sam Crescent, Blackmailed Marriage

“With all due respect, you said I wouldn’t even have to go through with my own wedding, and yet, that is exactly what I had to do. In the past year, we have gotten nowhere. Aria is my wife. I’m attempting to make her pregnant with my child. I’m going to start treating her like a wife.”
― Sam Crescent, Blackmailed Marriage

“I’ve accepted my life. Aria is my wife, and I’m going to start treating her like it.”
― Sam Crescent, Blackmailed Marriage

“This was the capo’s daughter, Mary, who was joining with another capo from another city. Again, the man was twenty years older than her, but it was a business deal. This is what they did. Strengthen alliances, build wealth, and gain power.”
― Sam Crescent, Blackmailed Marriage

“He found her honesty refreshing. Dante couldn’t help but wonder if she realized her brutal honesty and growing spine was what … intrigued him about her in the first place. He didn’t want a simpering fool. He wanted a woman by his side. Not someone who would agree with him about everything. No, he wanted to have a challenge, and Aria provided that.”
― Sam Crescent, Blackmailed Marriage

“Aria, we’ve been married eight months and have attended many different gatherings.” “Yeah, but tonight you’ve told me not to leave your side. On other occasions, you’ve advised I stay out of your way.” He’d been horrible to her. Dante had made it clear from the very beginning that he didn’t want to be married to her. She had followed his directions completely, giving him the space he required, but now he wanted to be close.”
― Sam Crescent, Blackmailed Marriage

“Care to join me in a drink?” “I don’t drink.” “You are in for a miserable existence.”
― Sam Crescent, Blackmailed Marriage

“Aria, you have a choice. Spend the rest of our married life being miserable, or take the chance with me and have some fun.”
― Sam Crescent, Blackmailed Marriage

“What if you and I could make them miserable?” Aria’s eyebrows rose. “We make other people miserable? That is an interesting one. How exactly are we going to do that?” He smiled. “Simple.” He leaned in close so his lips were against her ear. “We find our own happiness together. They won’t know what to do. We show a united front. After all, Aria, you are my wife. What better way to irritate them than to be happy?”
― Sam Crescent, Blackmailed Marriage

“Aria was a contradiction of a weakling with a spine. It was strange.”
― Sam Crescent, Blackmailed Marriage

“When she entered his office and asked him how to end their marriage, it was like she had awakened him.”
― Sam Crescent, Blackmailed Marriage

“I can show you how good it can be between us. Sex doesn’t have to be a duty or punishment.”
― Sam Crescent, Blackmailed Marriage

“I am sorry,” she said. “I didn’t mean to insult you.” “I’m not insulted. That first night was always going to be shit for you. Virgins are necessary but as far as I’m concerned, overrated.” She couldn’t help but flinch at the insult. It was fair, she said the sex was awful and overrated.”
― Sam Crescent, Blackmailed Marriage

“He wanted her to live in hell. But now he didn’t know why.”
― Sam Crescent, Blackmailed Marriage

“Aria had never been turned on by him. Like him, she’d been doing her duty, and she had done so without a single complaint. She had proven time and time again to be a good wife.”
― Sam Crescent, Blackmailed Marriage

“Dante knew he had gone out of his way to make Aria’s first experience miserable. Her virginity had gotten in the way. It was going to be painful that first time. Since then, he’d not once tried to do anything to please her. Other than coming to perform his duty, he didn’t do anything. His instructions were always the same. To be bent over the bed, no underwear, and nothing to get in his way. Aria didn’t know how good sex could be, and she didn’t want to know.”
― Sam Crescent, Blackmailed Marriage

“The only time they had kissed was on their wedding day straight after the priest had told them the I do’s. The kiss at the altar had been chaste. To any onlooker, they couldn’t have mistaken that neither person wanted to be there. She’d been terrified. Since then, they had not kissed. They hadn’t even had a honeymoon, or done anything together, other than their duty. She struggled to think of it as sex … it was duty. Sex was something different to her, intimate.”
― Sam Crescent, Blackmailed Marriage

“Aria couldn’t help but wonder what life was like for other people. The people who were not part of any mafia or family that had strict rules to follow. All her life, she’d constantly been told what to do.”
― Sam Crescent, Blackmailed Marriage

“She had stopped reading the romance novels since her wedding night. Dante had not swept her off her feet. This was worse than an arranged marriage. There was nothing arranged about this. Dante had been blackmailed into marrying her. At least with an arranged marriage there was a small chance of them falling in love. She would never love Dante.”
― Sam Crescent, Blackmailed Marriage

“The difference between your mother and your wife is that mine was a gift. Aria is nothing but blackmail, and one day, you will be rid of her.”
― Sam Crescent, Blackmailed Marriage