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1 " One day, I'm going to carve your heart out and keep it as a souvenir. I promise. "
― RuNyx , The Predator (Dark Verse, #1)
2 " We've been honest so far, Ms. Vitalio," he murmured. "I'll be honest now. I despise you but I want you. Fuck it, I do. And I want you out of my system. "
3 " Tristan Caine: Apparently, you're not out of my system, Ms. Vitalio. "
4 " It was the most beautiful kiss she could have ever dreamed of, the most untainted she’d ever imagined from him, with a softness she’d not thought him capable of. With his intensity, with his blazing eyes, the silent promises had been of devouring.This wasn’t devouring.This was savoring. "
5 " Don't you know not to run away from predators, sweetheart? We like the hunt. "
6 " Tristan Caine was toast. But he was one smooth toast. "
7 " If she had a dollar for every time she'd thought 'what the hell? "
8 " Courage takes only a second to become foolishness," he said quietly, his dark eyes alert. "Keep that in mind. "
9 " He’d seen her vulnerable multiple times and nuzzled her jugular instead of ripping it out. He’d seen her feisty so many times and had fed her fire instead of dousing it. He’d seen her as her and despite everything, he’d not exploited that, like her own father had done so many times "
10 " The silence was rife with something, heavy with a kind of anticipation she could not understand, almost as if they were facing off at the edge of a cliff, a breath away from plunging down. "
11 " Fuck,” she whispered, not knowing what else to say, the one word encompassing the entire situation perfectly. "
12 " Secrets were the stones that paved these roads. Threats were the truths that lay in this ground, morbid tales of lost men never to be seen again ringing around in the wind. "
13 " She existed because of him. She was innocent but he had been innocent too. She was innocent, and yet she was stained with blood. His blood. The blood of his father. The blood he had shed to save her; the blood he had marked her with trying to clean her. "