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“Lethal,” he murmured. “I want to crawl beneath your skin and live there.”
― Ella Fields, Bloodthirsty Beloved

“Hello, little witch,” he growled, his voice a low timbre which crawled across my skin and sank into my veins, leaving every inch of me exposed to his scrutiny. “Hello, monster of mine,” I replied in kind, my voice a purr dressed in silk, the darkness in me rising to the surface and offering up its own greeting.”
― Caroline Peckham, Echo Fort

“Hearts are notoriously unreliable,” he said. “Gluttonous one minute and weary the next.” Taking my chin with his other hand”
― Ella Fields, Bloodthirsty Beloved

“Under different circumstances …” The pause in his words carried a laborious heartbeat that smothered my own, as I watched the slightest smile play on his lips. A beat of hesitation. “I might’ve pursued you.” A nervous rush of breath escaped me. I gripped the strap of my bookbag in some faulty attempt to hold my composure, and swallowed past the dryness in my throat. “And I might’ve let you.”
― Keri Lake, Nocticadia