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1 " It means that every waking breath you take, every step you take, you don't just take to move your own life forward, but ours. You take it knowing I'm right there with you, irrevocably tied to every decision you make. "
― Meredith Wild , Hardline (Hacker, #3)
2 " Love. It bloomed in small moments like this, making all the good times that much better, all the tough times worth working through. "
3 " Yes. Hopelessly in love with you. Get used to it. Marriage is forever. "
4 " All I've ever wanted, since the day we met, was your trust. I want to be there for you, to help you, protect you. I can't do any of that the way I need to when you fight me and push me back. "
5 " I own you, Erica. Your heart, the blood that beats through it when I hold you down this way. Your body, the way it moves for me, comes for me. It's all mine. Say it. Tell me I own you, baby. "
6 " This doesn't work. Being apart destroys us. I can't live without you Blake. I can barely survive a night without you. How am I supposed to risk losing you for a lifetime? "
7 " You're the only one who can bring me through this, because I've never trusted someone the way I trust you. I love you so much it hurts sometimes. You have to believe me, that you're the only one who can heal me, Blake. "
8 " the only place I could feel the pain was in my heart, the place where I’d wounded us both. "
9 " I can't breathe without you, baby. You undo me and then put me back together whole again. You take it all, and you still love me for it. "
10 " Blake Landon was my drug, my obsession-a habit I had no intentions of ever quitting. "
11 " Love. It bloomed in small moments like this, making all the good times that much better, all the tough times worth working through. What I felt for this man took my breath away. "
12 " I want control, Erica. But I'm not going to take it from you. You have to give it to me. you opened the door. Now you have to walk through it. You've tried to draw this hard line between us, with work and our relationship, where you keep the amount of control you think you need. It ends now. "
13 " Blake could own me, he could hold something deep in me, but I knew I'd captured something precious in him too. Something he'd never given anyone else. "
14 " Make no mistake, what’s yours is mine. I don’t need a legal document to make me feel any safer in our marriage. If you decide to divorce me and rake me over the coals, I’m not sure any amount of money would ease the pain of losing you. It’s a non-issue for me. "
15 " Either way, I couldn’t let him leave me, and if I had to kneel to make him stay, I would. "
16 " Are you a risk? Usually when you leave me, you just take my heart. That’s the biggest risk of all, I’d say. "
17 " I wanted to be everything for him, even in these dark moments when nothing made sense but the demands of our flesh. "
18 " Promises of his love, that he’d always protect me and keep me safe, filled the air around us until I believed it, with every ounce of my soul. "
19 " Marriage, to me, implied stability, something sure and reliable. Happily ever after and all good things. "
20 " With all his kinks and maddening control issues, I loved this man. As much as he needed this, I needed to be this for him. "
