“What are you feeling?”
She locked their eyes in the mirror’s reflection, provoking him. “Imagine that I’m leaving you.” She saw his body stiffen. “Imagine that this is the last time you’ll touch me.” His eyes blazed. “Imagine that you can’t do anything to stop it. Think of that, and how pissed you’d be. Would you even be angry?”
“I don’t know if it’ll be anger but if that ever happened, there would be absolute annihilation.”
“Also, you usually have a hickey here. You can’t see it, but whenever you pull your hair up, it’s visible.”
I touch the back of my neck. That sly fucking bastard. He’s been leaving hickeys all this time? And here I thought he just loved kissing me there.
“Jer.”
“What?”
“I can’t take this, he’s so fucking adorable.”
“For leaving a hickey?”
“For staking a claim and being sneaky about it while complaining that I leave too many.”
Rule 11
women don’t want boys. They want men. They want someone to
contend with; someone to grapple with. If they’re tough, they want someone tougher. If
they’re smart, they want someone smarter. They desire someone who brings to the table
something they can’t already provide. This often makes it hard for tough, smart, attractive
women to find mates: there just aren’t that many men around who can outclass them
enough to be considered desirable
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She sighed. “Memories are strange things, aren’t they? You can’t touch them and hold them in your hands, but they have incredible power. Because I’ve lost so many memories, I feel as though I’ve lost that power”. She lifted her gaze to him. Her hands ached from squeezing the balls.”I’m whining again”.
“You’re not.” He reached over and covered her aching hands with his. You don’t have to do this all on your own, Annie,” he said, his voice low with a peculiar intensity. “I remember every single moment.”
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“The truth, princess, is I came back knowing this was what I signed up for. To see you every day and not be able to touch you. Kiss you. Claim you.” Rhys’s breath was hot against my skin as he lowered one hand and slid it up my thigh. It seared through the thick layers of my skirt and tights until my pussy clenched and my nipples tightened into hard points. “I came back despite knowing the torture I’d have to go through because I can’t stay away from you. Even when you’re not there, you’re everywhere. In my head, in my lungs, in my fucking soul. And I’m trying very hard not to lose my shit right now, sweetheart, because all I want is to cut off that fucker’s head and serve it on a platter for daring to touch you. Then bend you over the hood and spank your ass raw for letting him.” He cupped me between my legs and squeezed. I whimpered with a mixture of pain and pleasure. “So don’t. Push. Me.”
Surrender, surrender, surrender.
I touch my scar. This wound and the word it represents inextricably bound me and War together. He was sure I was supposed to surrender. The proof of it was carved into my flesh.
Like a strike of lightning, realization hits me.
The message wasn’t for me.
It never was for me. After all, I can’t read Angelic.
The message is for someone who can.
War.
it feels like i’m watching my life happen through a fuzzy television screen. i
feel far away from this world. almost foreign in this body. as if every happy
memory has been wiped clean from the bowl of my mind. i close my eyes
and i can’t remember what happy feels like. my chest collapses into my
stomach knowing that i have to get up in the morning and pretend i’m not
fading away all over again. i want to reach out and touch things. i want to feel
them touch me back. i want to live. i want the vitality of my life back.
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“I’ll go with His Highness.”
Maxim frowned. “Why should I trust you with my son’s safety?”
She tilted her head when she spoke, shifting her dark hair so it framed her shattered eye. In that single defiant gesture, Rhy could see why Kell liked her so.
“Why?” she echoed. “Because the shadows can’t touch me, and the fallen won’t. Because I’m good with magic, and better with a blade, and I’ve got more power in my blood than you’ve got in this whole damned palace. Because I’ve no qualms about killing, and on top of it all, I’ve got a knack for keeping your sons—both of them—alive.”
If Kell had been there, he would have turned white.
As it was, the king went nearly purple.
Alucard let out a small, exhausted sound that might have been a laugh.
The queen stared blankly at the strange girl.
And Rhy, despite everything, smiled.
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