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" If losing Sam had taught me anything, it was to seize life-seize everything it had to offer, including the tears, the anger and loss, but most of all, the laughter and the love.
To just seize life.
Because it was fleeting and it was fickle, and no one, not me or anyone I knew, had another day, let alone another second promised to them. "
― Jennifer L. Armentrout , Every Last Breath (The Dark Elements, #3)
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" Bisbigliò: «Perché sei qui, Layla?». «Sono qui... sono qui perché è qui che sono felice, qui con te.» Roth non si mosse, non ero neanche sicura che stesse respirando. C'erano buone probabilità che le mie parole non gli fossero arrivate, con tutto l'alcol che aveva ovviamente ingurgitato. Gli posai le mani sul petto e feci per dirgli che era meglio rimandare quella conversazione, ma lui fu più veloce di me. Mi circondò con le braccia e mi strinse forte. Quella sensazione mi piaceva... anzi, di più. Quando mi nascose la testa contro il collo, facendo un respiro profondissimo, io sentii i nostri corpi toccarsi in ogni punto. Roth fu scosso da un brivido fortissimo che lo fece fremere tra le mia braccia. "
― Jennifer L. Armentrout , Every Last Breath (The Dark Elements, #3)
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" Roth,” muttered Zayne. He sounded closer, but I didn’t want to take my eyes off the Alphas to check. “You might want to chill out a bit.”
The Crown Prince smirked. “Nah. You want to know why? The Alphas could end me, but they’re not going to.”
Across from us, the Alpha who had spoken stiffened but didn’t interrupt.
“You see, I am the favorite Crown Prince,” Roth continued, his smirk spreading. “They take me out when I haven’t done anything to warrant it and they’ll have the Boss to contend with. They don’t want that.”
Surprise flickered through me. They couldn’t just end Roth because of who he was? I’d always thought they could simply do as they pleased.
The Alpha who had been silent up to this point spoke. “There are rules for a reason. It does not mean we have to like them, so I’d suggest you do not push your luck, Prince.”
Then Roth did the unthinkable. He raised his hand and extended his middle finger. “Does this count as pushing it, Bob?”
Crap on a cracker, he’d flipped off an Alpha! And he’d called the Alpha Bob! Who did that? Seriously? "
― Jennifer L. Armentrout , Every Last Breath (The Dark Elements, #3)
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" Is it later yet?” Roth asked.
Casting him a lingering look, I grinned as I rose fluidly, with a grace I never thought I’d ever be capable of. “Only if you can catch me.”
Roth rose at once, capturing my hand before I could even take off, threading his fingers through mine. “Already did, Layla.”
And so he had, a long time ago, when he strutted into a dark alley and took out a Poser demon. Truth be told, I really didn’t even want to run.
This was love, and love could change people, even if that person was really a demon and the Crown Prince of Hell. “I love you,” I told him, and I told him that every day and I would tell him that over and over again.
Roth lowered his forehead to mine as he brought our joined hands to his chest, placing them above his heart. “And I love you,” he said. “With every breath I take, I will always love you. "
― Jennifer L. Armentrout , Every Last Breath (The Dark Elements, #3)