Corrupted Queen Quotes

“And Alexis, I suspect that you’re the yin to my yang.” His brow furrows. “I need you.”
― Nicole Fox, Corrupted Queen

“Alexis rubs my back and presses her lips to my head. If I have never felt so much pain before, I have also never felt comfort like this either. Her warmth surrounds me. Encases me like a cocoon. I do not deserve this woman, but I can never let her go.”
― Nicole Fox, Corrupted Queen

“It is not the wise man’s job to care what he looks like while he shovels shit to put out the fire,” Vito calls back to me.”
― Nicole Fox, Corrupted Queen

“He’s fast asleep, clutching a teddy bear I’ve never seen before. Curious, I extricate the bear from his grip and turn it over in my hands. There are words stitched into the paw and I narrow my eyes, struggling to read them. With love, from Dad.”
― Nicole Fox, Corrupted Queen

“You’re right!” I snap. “I should have stayed so you and I could raise Harry together like a happy little family, and one day when he was older we could sit down and tell him the heartwarming story of how you murdered his grandfather in cold blood.” I glower at him. “Doesn’t that sound nice?”
― Nicole Fox, Corrupted Queen

“I think about marrying Gabriel for real and I decide it is the most ridiculous suggestion I’ve ever heard.”
― Nicole Fox, Corrupted Queen

“I pull Alexis across my lap, cradling her to my chest like I used to when we were lovers. Before all the ugliness. I am surprised to find that not only does she let me hold her, but she cuddles in against my chest and buries her face in my shirt. I rest my lips against the crown of her head and breathe in her flowery scent.”
― Nicole Fox, Corrupted Queen

“That’s what I thought,” Gabriel says, and I can hear the smirk in his voice. “You’ll always be mine, Alexis.”
― Nicole Fox, Corrupted Queen