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1 " It was easy. It didn’t require thought to push closer, to roll faster into the wave of their shared pleasure, a rhythm they didn’t need to discuss—it simply was. A truth they had just needed to let surface from the depths as if they’d hid it from themselves by some trick of the light, or the darkness. Maybe just fear—the kind that lived at the heart of every great love. "
― N.J. Lysk , Beloved of the Pack (The Stars of the Pack #4)
2 " Ray wanted an egalitarian relationship, there was no way in hell he was putting anyone through anything even close to what he'd been through. Revenge was just violence dressed up as justice, not the real thing. "
3 " Gabriel's eyes widened, blue and startled. He was stupidly beautiful, but Ray didn't really care about the regularity of his features. He wanted the tenderness on his face, the insecurity born from love—it wasn't possible to love someone and not be a little afraid they'd break. Anything and anyone you loved was always too fragile for your taste, too likely to be damaged—by the world but also by your own words and actions. He straightened, and Ray thought he might cross the space between them. Instead, he opened his arms in invitation and kept his eyes steady on Ray's face—vulnerable and open to Ray's refusal.Ray wasn't sure this was a good idea, but he couldn't leave someone he loved exposed like that without responding. "