“I would paint this fucking town in red if I have to until I found her.”
“I’m not afraid to die. I’m just unwilling.”
“I hated her with everything I had because it was the only emotion I had to give. I realized, even then, I was giving her everything.
She was the bane of my existence, and at the very same, the reason I cared to exist.”
“You don’t know me beyond my cock, Monroe. Don’t pretend otherwise.”
“Making her fear me was only half the battle. I needed to make her want me, too.”
“If you think I’m trying to scare you, then my seduction skills need serious work. Besides, I don’t need fear to control you anymore. My cock is pretty good at making you do what I want.”
“She isn’t yours to protect.” “She’s my friend.” “And she is JUST mine.”
“One man’s greed is another man’s tragedy.”
“I was as much her sexual prisoner as she was mine. Those would be the times I took her the hardest and unleashed my cruelty on her.”
“As for Monroe, I would stay away for now, but I had no intention of letting her go. She would have to be pried from my cold, lifeless fingers.”
“She now had a faraway look in her eyes, and I experienced the unfamiliar, yet intense need to hold her and protect her from the world, but most of all from me.”
“I spent my whole life afraid of you. You were the monster under the bed and the devil who stole my soul.”
“I heard you… before you left. I heard you, and now I see that you were right. You don’t deserve to love me.”
“My only mission became to save her. I wanted to be the very person I grew up hating. I wanted to be her hero.”
“I spent the last eleven years making your life hell. I’m ready to spend the rest of mine making it up to you. Spoiling you is just the start. Will you let me?”
“What if I can get you the information you need without setting him up or getting close to him?”
“I realize you haven’t been owned by me for a while. Believe me, baby. I know it’s been a while—too fucking long, but this shit right here,” I bit her lip and looked deep into her eyes, “will get you into a lot of fucking trouble. Quit acting up.”
“A leaf turns in the wind, and you suddenly have a different perception of what colour it is.”
“But even in my life I saw the leaching of spirit. A surfeit of honey cloys the tongue; a surfeit of wine addles the brain; so a surfeit of ease guts a man of strength. Light, warmth, food, water, were free to all men, and gained by a minimum of effort. So the people of Ampridatvir, released from toil, gave increasing attention to faddishness, perversity, and the occult.”
“I will fly to those royal birds,”
“I can't be anything but what I am, Elle. If you want a man who is going to treat you like a broken doll, you sure as hell come to the wrong place. And if you expect me to step aside and let you make decisions that are ultimately going to harm you, then baby, you definitely have the wrong man because I protect my woman. Right or wrong, politically correct or not, I stand in front of her when there's need.”
“In the bank they did the same kind of stuff the fortune-teller and the bookie had done. But they dressed better.”
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