" I’d been used for so long, I’d forgotten how pleasurable sex could be.
“I will obliterate any motherfucker who lays a hand on you again … I’d kill for you.”
In his bed, amid the darkness, the destruction, the ruin, he fixed me. His gentle hands delicately fastened together the pieces of me that’d become so broken and scattered with no hope for convergence. As I lay beside him, the soothing tap of rain against the window, I felt whole. "

― Keri Lake , Ricochet (Vigilantes, #1)