Semi

“With an offer like that, how can I refuse?”

He gapes at me. Clearly, my reciprocating was the last thing he expected. I whip a dagger from my belt and plant it at his groin, pricking just enough to make him yelp. Carver freezes.

I cant my head, saying coolly, “I haven’t been spanked much because I do the spanking.”

Beta Sinta laughs, startling the birds in the branches above. “Carver,” he says. “She just handed you your balls.”

Carver grins. “That’s all right, as long as I get to keep them.”
― Amanda Bouchet, A Promise of Fire

“We are not the sums of our pasts, Alessandro.” Still gently caressing his face as if he were beloved to her, her gaze burned into his. Searing in its violet intensity. “We are our futures. We cannot change what has happened, cannot undo what has been done. All we can do is live for tomorrow rather than for yesterday.”

She was right.”
― Scarlett Scott, Earl of Every Sin

“My whole lifetime will be nothing more than a moment to you,” she argued weakly.

“If we are only together for a moment, let it be the sweetest moment I have ever known.”
― L. A. Holloway

“I have existed for eons,” he declared with a soft rumble that reverberated through his chest, “but I never lived before this moment.”
― L. A. Holloway