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“Everything hurts.” Only Grayson Hawthorne could say that and still sound utterly bulletproof. “It hurts all the time, Avery, but I know the man I was raised to be.”
― The Final Gambit
― The Final Gambit
“Aching for them, I wondered who had made Skye so desperate to be the center of someone's world that she couldn't even love her own children, for fear they wouldn't love her back enough.”
― The Final Gambit
― The Final Gambit
“Hawthornes aren’t supposed to break, his voice whispered in my memory. Especially me.”
― The Final Gambit
― The Final Gambit
“Someone told me once that fortunes like this one–at a certain point, it's not about the money, because you couldn't spend billions if you tried It's about the power." I looked down. "And I just don't think anyone should have power like that, certainly not me.”
― The Final Gambit
― The Final Gambit
“I have a better idea.” Jameson lowered his lips to mine. My neck arched. More mud on my face, my clothes. “I bet,” he countered, “that you can’t wash all this mud off before I…” “Before you what?” I murmured. Jameson Winchester Hawthorne smiled. “Guess.”
― The Final Gambit
― The Final Gambit
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