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21 " I missed you." My heart stopped. "What?""You heard me." "Please," I said. "No. Don't do this." "I dreamed about you." Pause. "Every night." Oh God, I was weak. Weak. "
― Nenia Campbell , Armed and Dangerous (The IMA, #2)
22 " Welcome to Arizona, you bastard. "
23 " I need you alive. I need you breathing." He shook his head. "I need you. "
24 " I wanted to persuade her, but I didn't want to scare her, and I certainly didn't want to make her cry. I wanted her to be safe. I wanted her to be mine. I wanted to have my cake and eat it, too. "
25 " No. Freud said it best, I think, when he said, "sometimes a cigar is just a cigar." Sometimes your mother's boyfriend is just a loser "
26 " Yes. You're the only thing that matters right now." Michael, swaying a little over me, said, "You're trying to talk yourself into hating me when all I'm trying to do is keep you alive. "
27 " Okay," he said, planting his newly freed hand on the mattress. "I stopped. Now let me tell you what I think. I think you think that if you give in to what I want, and what I suspect you want, I'll make a killer and a whore out of you. You think I'll hurt you if you refuse. "
28 " His skeptical silence made me shift uncomfortably. I felt like Aladdin, holding his hand out to Jasmine on the magic carpet. A ridiculous comparison under the given circumstances, and yet oddly apt. "
29 " That son of a bitch. Looked like my expiration date was sooner than I'd thought. The bastard had fucked me up the ass at my own game. "
30 " Not yet," he said. "You're beautiful, and it's killing me and I want to die a moment longer. Please. "
31 " I was so inspired," she gushed. "The words just flowed out of me." So does crap. "
32 " Satisfied he had made his point, he left me there to cough up blood and bile and impotent rage. And fear. "
33 " Maybe.” Possibly. Probably. "