Elena

“That wasn’t how I’d imagined making you come for the first time,” he remarked. I stopped chewing.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“Maybe you really are a poet," I whisper.
He smiles softly. "Only a fool for you."
"Pretend?"
My voice is small, soft like the breeze blowing through my short hair.
"Never."
"None of it?" I ask quietly.
"Darling"-he smiles- "I have never had to pretend to want you.”
― Lauren Roberts, Reckless

“She is the torture I may not survive.
Eagerly, she is my undoing.
Her gaze lifts, meeting eyes that are not my own.
Eyes of the man who gets to have her-if she allows it.
She was supposed to be my forever.
Now I'll watch her become someone else's.
Because the beast doesn't get the beauty.”
― Lauren Roberts, Reckless

“I wonder how often the Enforcer kneels before anything. Anyone. “You’re afraid of me.” He meets my statement with a stare, steady but drawn out like a sigh. “I’d be a fool not to fear something so fierce.”
― Lauren Roberts, Reckless