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41 " Since the minute I saw you, I’ve wanted you. I’ve wanted to open your legs and take you. "
― Pepper Winters , Take Me: Twelve Tales of Dark Possession
42 " flawless imperfection, "
43 " This spitfire of a woman, a woman I had every reason to hate, made me question everything. "
44 " He might not go to jail, but he was probably going to hell. "
45 " He was ruthless in his pursuit of his pleasure. He made it an art form, this dissolute living. Almost stylized in its perfection. And so damned tempting she couldn’t turn away. She wanted him to teach her his secrets, like a magician to his apprentice. And above all, she wanted him to remember her when she was gone. "
46 " Afternoon sunshine streamed through the lace curtains, an assault of warmth on my face, and I scowled. The skies should have opened, should have drenched the earth until it drowned. On that day, the day I’d watched my mother go into the ground, the whole fucking world should’ve cried until their eyes bled. "
47 " But the instant my eyes landed on thick mahogany waves draping over porcelain shoulders, I wanted with a ferocity that I’d never felt before. "
48 " Who sends for their favorite whore when they have a tummy ache? "
49 " She knew how to reach him, though, with some ancient instinct. It wasn’t even a woman to a man. It was a light in the dark, water running over rock until it lost its jagged edge. "
50 " The captor-captive bond was just one of the many ways the mind dealt with trauma. "
51 " You’d better make it worthwhile,” I said. “I have no time for sweet talk.” “You’re such a rich little princess.” He pressed my neck down and pulled my hips toward him with the fingers he had inserted in me. “Fuck you,” I whispered. “You’re a worthless street punk. "
52 " Still, a bond forms when you’ve taken a man’s life in your hands, like a spider’s thread, thin but strong. "
53 " He was a sick, sadistic bastard for deriving pleasure from her clear pain, but he’d teach her that with pain came pleasure. "
54 " I wanted this woman to fear me, yet she stood regal and taunting—untouchable. "
55 " I could will myself quiet. I could will myself honest. But I couldn’t will myself warm. "
56 " A fighter wasn’t what every man here wanted, but it excited more than a handful. The kind of people that came to these auctions—men like himself—clearly liked the darker pleasures in life. "
57 " Just… be gentle,” I whispered. He grimaced. “I’m trying damn hard to embrace that word every day. "
58 " My little whore who loves to be fucked. "
59 " Why are you chasing me?” “Because you’re mine. "
60 " Men had no idea how much they gave away in their quest for control. "