DarkWeb Quotes

“When I came up, I chanced a look at him. A mistake. The famished, wounded set of his body hinted agony. That he was dangerous seemed secondary to how alive I became. I’d been pretty all my life, but no one had ever watched me as Mark Donahue did now— as if I were a mythical creature.
I hooked my elbows over the side of the tub, nipples pressed against the slick porcelain, and crooked a finger at him. "Come here."
He was on his feet immediately. I stood, naked skin steaming, smelling like Johanna's gardenias, not like Wren at all. Like someone loved and desperately needed. But he kept his distance, as if I were the dangerous one.”
― talia vines, DarkWeb

“I waited, shifting my weight from one foot to the other. His silhouette erased the kindness of him, leaving the barest sketch— tall, athletic, predatory.
Slowly, he circled, making me feel like an apprentice lion tamer in the ring with a disgruntled, hungry animal; one who didn't know whether to do its tricks and receive a treat, or to simply break the rules and pounce.
He knows, I thought, swallowing. He knows you're false.”
― Talia Vines, DarkWeb

“Answer me," he coaxed. How easy it would be to shuck the husk of who I'd become and be reborn as Johanna Donahue. Wren, and all her promises to Jason and the FBI, all her isolation and pain— all those things could disappear with her. Those were Wren's problems, not Johanna's. Johanna had a husband who loved her. Johanna had no reason to betray Mark, no debts to pay. Johanna wasn't even alive to care if I stole her place.”
― Talia Vines, DarkWeb