Charlie

“He carefully pulled back to gaze down at her. For the first time”
― Jacquelyn Benson, Tomb of the Sun King

“For which you blame my gender,” he finished. “Who else? It is men who have kept women downtrodden and poorly educated”
― Deanna Raybourn, A Curious Beginning

“she looked at him—just looked at him, with this quiet, conscious acceptance, as if to say Maybe you’re hiding the whole story, but if you need to, I’ll let you. And something about that look leaned on every last one of Zaf’s pressure points—not in a painful way, not exactly. More like a massage that hurt really fucking good.”
― Talia Hibbert, Take a Hint, Dani Brown

“Victor smiled at the challenge. A quick step forward, and Eli tried to step back on instinct but met the wall and Victor met him. The knife slid in. It was easier than he imagined. Like a vanishing act, one moment the metal glinted and the next it was gone, buried in Eli’s stomach to the hilt.”
― Victoria E. Schwab, Vicious