Chapter 8 Quotes

“I want all of your orgasms to belong to me.”
― Ella Dominguez, Chapter 8: The Complete Series

“The first to apologize is the bravest. The first to forgive is the strongest. And the first to forget is the happiest.” – Unknown  ”
― Ella Dominguez, Chapter 8: The Complete Series

“Sometimes I like the dark, Elsa. Now and then it comforts me. For things to be dirty and depraved is what stimulates me and makes me feel alive. That’ll never change for me. Mr. Black opened my eyes to my dark side, and I can’t live without that. I won’t. Can you live with me knowing I need that?”
― Ella Dominguez, Chapter 8: The Complete Series

“We’ll never find this again with anyone else. Can’t you see that we belong together, even if it’s wrong?”
― Ella Dominguez, Chapter 8: The Complete Series

“No one will ever understand you the way I do. No one will ever understand me the way you do.”
― Ella Dominguez, Chapter 8: The Complete Series

“I want love. I want that overwhelming feeling of helplessness and hopefulness that comes from being in love. I want passion”
― Ella Dominguez, Chapter 8: The Complete Series

“What filthy things are you willing to do for me? What can you teach me that I don’t already know? What can I teach you about yourself? I will know all your desires and secrets, I promise you, I will.”
― Ella Dominguez, Chapter 8: The Complete Series

“How I love fear and anxiety; it’s what makes the world go around and the tides ebb and flow. It makes my blood hum and my cock hard. Yes, I’m a sick and depraved fuck like that.”
― Ella Dominguez, Chapter 8: The Complete Series

“What the fuck kind of cruel joke was this? Elsa stared at the last page for nearly a minute in dumbfounded shock and denial. If she hadn’t stolen the damned thing, she would’ve demanded a refund. She felt like screaming at the top of her lungs, but instead, all that came out was lunatic laughter. She really was insane and Mr. Black was all to blame.”
― Ella Dominguez, Chapter 8: The Complete Series

“Neither of us has to sacrifice the things we enjoy to be together. We can make this work. I truly believe that. As long as we love each other consistently, honestly and most importantly, unconditionally, it doesn’t matter that it will be difficult.”
― Ella Dominguez, Chapter 8: The Complete Series

“I hope I do feel different. I hope I love you more with each passing moment and that you let me love you until my heart explodes. I hope you give me reasons to see you differently – in good ways.”
― Ella Dominguez, Chapter 8: The Complete Series

“If you say no to me right now, it will be the last time you say no. I’ll walk out that door and I won’t be waiting for you, Victor. I’ll be trying to piece my life back together and moving on.”
― Ella Dominguez, Chapter 8: The Complete Series

“If we’re doing this, we’re doing it together or not at all. This can only work between us if we’re both present and committed to one another, no matter how ugly things may get. And I’m dedicated to you and to making this work. If you’re not, then tell me right now.”
― Ella Dominguez, Chapter 8: The Complete Series

“This whole situation is so fucked up. This game. This thing between us. It’s exhausting. God, I’m just so sick of it and tired of hating Mr. Black one minute to wanting a future with you the next. A future I know will never happen.”
― Ella Dominguez, Chapter 8: The Complete Series

“Hours passed with no words spoken between them. None were needed.”
― Ella Dominguez, Chapter 8: The Complete Series

“they both wore their masks of contentment well. To the outside world, they both appeared normal, even well-adjusted. All of it – a lie they both told the people around them and themselves.”
― Ella Dominguez, Chapter 8: The Complete Series

“There was no getting through to him. She had allowed him to beat, use and abuse her, and still… there was no breaking down his walls.”
― Ella Dominguez, Chapter 8: The Complete Series

“Another lie in your game, only this time, you’re lying to yourself. I know who you are. You can push me away, Victor, but I’ll never stop loving you.”
― Ella Dominguez, Chapter 8: The Complete Series

“He didn’t understand her. He never would. She had read all the ghastly minutiae of his debauchery and cruelty, and still she had stayed and came back for more. She was no masochist, he knew that. But then what was she? Fucking insane like he was? She knew he was a sadist who had murderous nightmares and still she was asking him how she could make it right…”
― Ella Dominguez, Chapter 8: The Complete Series

“If you show me honesty, you’ll get honesty in return. If you show me kindness, then I’ll give you kindness and obedience. But if you show me nothing but heartlessness and cruelty, then what do you expect to get in return?”
― Ella Dominguez, Chapter 8: The Complete Series

“Submission and beauty have always been my weakness and you exude both while simultaneously maintaining your strength and defiance. It’s a heady combination for me to try and navigate my way through. Will I ever be able to rein you in and make you into the person I want you to be?”
― Ella Dominguez, Chapter 8: The Complete Series

“She did, after all, like a bit of menace in her men. She also liked it rough when it came right down to it. Or at least the idea of rough. No man had ever actually given her what she really wanted, or needed for that matter.”
― Ella Dominguez, Chapter 8: The Complete Series

“At that moment, all that mattered is that they both wanted and needed each other. Every part of her belonged to him, and his blackened heart would always belong to her.  ”
― Ella Dominguez, Chapter 8: The Complete Series

“To ask you to change who you are would be a death sentence for our relationship. You are who you are, Mr. Black and all. I like your dark side and even Mr. Black… in small doses,”
― Ella Dominguez, Chapter 8: The Complete Series

“We’re both stronger when we’re together. We can do this.”
― Ella Dominguez, Chapter 8: The Complete Series

“You’re going to let me love you like you should have the first time I offered.”
― Ella Dominguez, Chapter 8: The Complete Series

“one of his rare, genuine smiles to the corners of his mouth. And what a smile it was. Radiant. Alluring. Captivating. Yes… that smile. The sensuous one that hung on his lips was such an extraordinary and precious thing,”
― Ella Dominguez, Chapter 8: The Complete Series

“If he hadn’t made that damned promise, she wouldn’t even be there.”
― Ella Dominguez, Chapter 8: The Complete Series

“Another song from her playlist came over the stereo, You Could be Happy by Snow Patrol and another, Embrace by Goldroom.”
― Ella Dominguez, Chapter 8: The Complete Series

“Secure the scarf over your eyes. Lie back on the bed. Wait.”
― Ella Dominguez, Chapter 8: The Complete Series