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1 " Then so be it. I’ll go where you go no matter how dark the path. "
― Cora Reilly , Bound by Honor (Born in Blood Mafia Chronicles, #1)
2 " Just beacause I'm wearing revealing clothes doesn't mean I'm inviting them to look. "
3 " She's a fucking rat trying to humiliate a queen...She's nothing "
4 " That is the fifth time you shied back from me tonight.” He set down the glass and took the knife in his hand. Then he advanced on me. “Did your father never teach you to hide your fear from monsters? They give chase if you run. "
5 " Maybe love is a risk, but it’s a risk I’m willing to take and as you said, it’s not a choice. I never thought I would, never thought I could love someone like that but I fell in love with you. I fought it. It’s the first battle I didn’t mind losing. "
6 " If I’d done that today, you would have lost control. The only reason why you didn’t was because I treated you like my husband, not a monster. "
7 " Love is something girls hope for when they don't know better, something women long for when they lie awake at night, and something they'll only ever get from their children. Men don't have time for such notions. "
8 " The last few words of the oath that men swore when they were inducted into the mafia could just as well have been the closing of my wedding vow: “I enter alive and I will have to get out dead. "
9 " Make him be good to you. Make him love you if you can. It’s the only way to get through this. "
10 " The path stretching before us was one of darkness, a life of blood and death and danger, a future of always watching my back, of knowing every day could be Luca’s last, of fearing that one day I might have to watch him receive a lethal injection. But this was my world and Luca was my man, and I would go this path with him until the bitter end. "
11 " He held me against his body and his upper arm was close to my face, so I turned and bit him. He was so startled he actually released me and I tried to jab him with the knife, but he gripped my wrist. “Did you bite me?” he asked as he stared at my teeth marks on his bicep. “Not hard enough. There isn’t even blood,” I said. Luca’s shoulders twitched once, then again. He was fighting laughter. Not the effect I’d intended when I bit him but I had to admit I loved the sound of his deep chuckle.“I think you’ve done enough damage for one day,” he said. "
12 " Your sister is a fucking nuisance,” Luca muttered in my ear. "
13 " But you are my first choice, Aria. I’ll burn down the world if I have to. I’ll kill and maim and blackmail. I’ll do anything for you. Maybe love is a risk, but it’s a risk I’m willing to take and as you said, it’s not a choice. I never thought I would, never thought I could love someone like that, but I fell in love with you. I fought it. It’s the first battle I didn’t mind losing. "
14 " I could make you feel good, Aria,” he murmured, his hand on my waist tightening. “You want to come, don’t you?” Oh my God, yes. My body was screaming for it. “I’m fine. Thank you.” Luca choked on a laugh. “You are so stubborn. "
15 " His lips brushed my ear. “Tonight you beg me to spare you, but one day you’re going to beg me to fuck you.” No. Never, I swore to myself. His breath was hot against my skin and I closed my eyes. “Don’t think because I don’t claim my rights tonight that you aren’t mine, Aria. No other man will ever have what belongs to me. You are mine. "
16 " erection "
17 " You look like shit,” Luca said. Matteo nodded. “My tenth espresso and I’m still not awake. Drank too much last night.”“You were trashed, "
18 " You are far too beautiful and innocent to be married to someone like me, but I’m too much of a selfish bastard to ever let you go. You are mine. Forever. "
19 " But I don’t care because loving you is the only pure thing in my life. "
20 " I lied because I hate that I love you, because I hate that you can hurt me without ever laying a finger on me, because I hate myself for loving you even though you won’t ever love me back. "