em (taylor’s version)

“No, you guys don’t get it. I can literally get fired for fraternizing with them.” “Then don’t fraternize,” Jackie states with a casual shrug. “But just because you can’t hang out with them doesn’t mean we have to avoid them. The least you can do is introduce us.”
― Liz Tomforde, Mile High

“Oh.” Hannah stops in her tracks, checking me out, her eyes flickering up and down my body. “What?” “Nothing. Just didn’t expect you to wear something so...tight. That’s not like you.”
― Liz Tomforde, Mile High

“When I was young and alone in my room at night, with a father who didn’t like my existence and no mother and no friends, just my overactive imagination and my brain, you know what I used to think about?” she murmured, never breaking their locked gaze. “When one of my father’s guards sneaked into my room and I had to fight him off—” his hand tightened on her neck in reaction but she continued, “—wallowing in my loneliness and self-pity, you know what I would dream about?” He waited for her answer, never moving those intense blue eyes from hers. “A monster,” she whispered between their lips. “My monster. One who could keep me safe and kill the other monsters who wanted to hurt me.” By the last word, his mouth slammed into hers as he turned her under him. “You always fucking had him, wildcat.” And then he ravaged her like the monster he claimed to be.”
― RuNyx ., The Reaper

“Don’t talk about me like I’m not here.” Libby looked up from the cupcakes she was icing to narrow her eyes at Nash. “Yes, ma’am.” Nash smiled, wide and slow. I wondered how long he’d been with her—why he’d been with her.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games