Black Sea Quotes

“Suddenly, I felt his fingers on my ribs. I took a sharp breath, stiffening. His expression darkened, his burning eyes challenging me to stop him as his hand moved down on my hip.
But I didn’t do anything.
I had never been touched like that before—so confidently and deliberately. It was overwhelming and unsettled me.
Because I wanted more.
Much more.
I wanted his touch to be rougher.
I wanted it everywhere.
His mouth slightly lifted to one side, and, in an instant, he pulled out my dagger and forcefully pushed it into the wood, just inches from my head.
My brow pinched.
His smirk grew a bit wider. “Relax, Elf.”
― Chiara Cilli, Black Sea

“If you keep holding me here,” I said, staring straight into his eyes, “I will kill you.”
He gave me a cocky smile. “If you really wanted to kill me, you would have done it already.”
― Chiara Cilli, Black Sea

“Thank you,” I said softly. I turned my attention back to him. “For saving me.”
The soldier gazed at me too hard, for too long. “Just like you saved me before.”
― Chiara Cilli, Black Sea

“Why didn’t you kill me?” I asked, glancing at the dagger on his side as I instinctively wrapped my fingers around the hilt of my own.
Even if we had previously helped each other stay on the tree while the fury of water carried us away, that didn’t mean we were no longer enemies.
His grin widened. “I needed you to balance the tree.” He patted it as if it were a horse.”
― Chiara Cilli, Black Sea

“My eyes collided with his, a hypnotic pine green with lighter shades.
He was a young man in his thirties, with sun-kissed skin, thick, light-brown hair that brushed his nape, a short beard, and heavy armor covered in dark bronze scales.
For a thousandth of a second, something passed between us.
Something I couldn’t understand.
Something that lit up his eyes.”
― Chiara Cilli, Black Sea: A Forbidden Enemies-to-Lovers Dark Romantasy with Morally Black Villain