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“Aaron’s head dipped, his mouth coming close to where his fingers had been a few seconds ago. Almost as close as it had been when we’d danced. “It’s as if you want me to beg. Is that something you’d enjoy? Me begging?” His voice sounded so… intimate. Hushed. But it was his next words that scattered my thoughts all over the place. “Is that what this is? You like bringing me to my knees?”
― Elena Armas, The Spanish Love Deception

“She tried to be sexually inappropriate with them. My mom caught her. Who knows what else would’ve happened if she hadn’t.”
― Lucinda Berry, The Perfect Child

“I know what grande means.” That little bend of his lips was there until he turned to my mother, squaring his expression. “I appreciate your concern, Cristina. But we will be perfectly fine, sleeping here. Muchas gracias por todo de nuevo.”
― Elena Armas, The Spanish Love Deception

“I’d never been blinded by love before. I’d thought that was reserved for romantic love, but it wasn’t. I loved Janie in ways I couldn’t describe or understand. I probably never would. Even after everything she’d done.”
― Lucinda Berry, The Perfect Child