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The Darkest Torment (Lords of the Underworld, #12) The Darkest Torment by Gena Showalter
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“Please. Shit sprinkled with sugar was still shit. Baden”
Gena Showalter, The Darkest Torment
“The definition of marriage? When a woman adopts an overgrown man-child who cannot be handled by his parents any longer.”
Gena Showalter, The Darkest Torment
“Game of Thrones? No. Game of loans. I'm going to loan my foot to your ass."
- Taliyah, the Cold Hearted”
Gena Showalter, The Darkest Torment
“Destruction was calm, almost content- would he next break out in song like a Disney princess?”
Gena Showalter, The Darkest Torment
“All I want from a man is everything and nothing at the same but different times, sometimes and never but always.”
Gena Showalter, The Darkest Torment
“Katarina wasn’t afraid of Baden. Not anymore.

He took a step to the side, intending to move around her. Oh, no. She flattened her hands on his shoulders, keeping him in place.

“I want to know what’s wrong with you.” She said. “Tell me.”

He snapped his teeth at her in a show of dominance. “You think you want to know my problem. You’re wrong.”

Her tone dry, she said, “I’m so glad you know my mind better than I do.”

“Very well. I need sex.” He threw the words at her as if they were weapons. “Badly.”

Whoa. Blindside!

Heart pounding, she jerked her hands away from him. “Sex...from me?”

“Yesss.” A hiss. “Only from you.”

Only. Amazing how one little word could send pleasure soaring through her, warming her. “You told me never to touch you.” Which she’d just done, she realized. My bad.

“I’ve changed my mind.” His gaze dropped, lingered on her lips.

Burning her... “But you and I...we’re a different species.” As if that mattered to her body. Gimme!


He took a step closer, invading her personal space. “We’ll fit, I promise you.”


Tristo hrmenych! The raspy quality of his voice, all smoke and gravel...she shivered with longing. Must resist his allure.

But...but...why? Before she’d committed to Peter, she’d dated around, had made out in movie theaters, cars and on couches. She’d liked kissing and touching and “riding the belt buckle,” as her friends had called it. Then, after committing to Peter, she’d gifted him with her virginity. At first, he hadn’t known what to do with her—he’d been just as inexperienced—and she’d left each encounter disappointed. When finally she’d gathered the courage to tell him what she wanted, he’d satisfied her well.

She missed sex. But connection...intimacy...she thought she missed those more.

The dogs barked, jolting her from her thoughts. They’d cleaned their food bowls, and now wanted to play. She clasped Baden’s hand to lead him out of the kennel. He jerked away, severing contact.

One action. Tons of hurt.

“I’m allowed to touch you and you want to have sex with me, but you’re still disgusted by me.” She stomped outside the kennel, done with him. “Well, I’m leaving. Good riddance! Your do-what-I-say-or-else attitude was annoying, anyway.”

He darted in front of her, stopping her. Breath caught in her throat as sunlight streamed over him, paying his chiseled features absolute tribute, making his bronzed skin glimmer.

So beautiful. Too beautiful.

“I’m not disgusted by you. You need me. I’ve come to accept it,” he admitted, looking away from her. “But being skin-to-skin with another is painful for me. We’ll have to proceed carefully. And you’ll get over your annoyance.”

Another order! She would show him the error of his ways.”
Gena Showalter, The Darkest Torment
“I am not the monster who lives inside me”
Gena Showalter, The Darkest Torment
“I’m married, yes, but not for long. This girl will be getting a speedy annulment.” Another step. “No need. I’ll make you a widow.”
Gena Showalter, The Darkest Torment
“Wrong. You didn’t handle demons. You starved them.”
Gena Showalter, The Darkest Torment
“Humans needed love to survive. Love was sustenance. Love was life. The more she poured into others, the more others could pour into her.”
Gena Showalter, The Darkest Torment
“These people might be vicious and bloodthirsty, but they loved each other. Deeply. Madly. Their devotion was palpable.”
Gena Showalter, The Darkest Torment
“But truth was truth, and like any apex predator, it could defend itself.”
Gena Showalter, The Darkest Torment
“The more evil you do, the more evil you are,”
Gena Showalter, The Darkest Torment
“GUILT COULD NOT change the past. Worry could not change the future.”
Gena Showalter, The Darkest Torment
“When I flip you off, run. I’ve just told you how many seconds you have left to live.”
Gena Showalter, The Darkest Torment
“GUILT COULD NOT change the past. Worry could not change the future. And yet, both followed Baden with relentless determination”
Gena Showalter, The Darkest Torment
“A volte quello che vogliamo non è quello di cui abbiamo bisogno.”
Gena Showalter, The Darkest Torment