Status Updates From Riot Act (Crooked Sinners, #3)

“I welcome the day I lose my mind, Chase. At least then, when I’ve truly lost it, I’ll be oblivious to the fact. I’ll just be crazy. Nothing in the world will matter anymore. I want you to be mine. I—I’m fucking in love with you, Chase. I want to learn how to show you that. I want to make you fucking believe it. ”

my babies 😭😭

“I don’t mind,” he says quietly. The tiniest of smiles plays at the corner of his mouth. “I thought I’d walked into some Brother’s Grimm Fairytale when I came through that door. There was a beautiful, fiery-haired angel sleeping peacefully in my bed.”

🥹🥹🥹

“The path of least resistance doesn’t always mean taking the easiest option. Sometimes…it means that your soul finds its way home, toward something it loves, after you’ve held it back for too fucking long. So…do with that what you will, I guess.”

😭😭😭😭😭 i fucking love them

“He said Jonah was looking at twenty-five years for what he did to Chase. Twenty-five years doesn’t seem like enough. But I have a long memory. I won’t forget. I’ll be waiting outside the prison gates for Jonah Witton the day his sentence comes to an end.”

only 25 ????

AHH finally

my poor girl 😭😭😭

this is the scene he finds out ohmygosh

“No friendship bracelets around his wrist anymore.”

WHAT NO

the miscommunication trope STOP IT

“The path of least resistance.”

this fucking quote 😭🥹😭🥹

“After that kiss, there’s very little point in lying to myself anymore, when the truth is making itself so painfully obvious. I have feelings for Chase. Big ones. Scary ones. Run-away-and-hide-in-a-dark-closet feelings.”

finally 🥹🥹

“How weak he’ll think me, if he finds out how quickly I was overpowered. How dirty he’ll think me, once he discovers how tainted I am.”

i’ll sob

“And then the world ended. Something happened, so ugly and terrible, that my all-consuming feelings for him were completely overshadowed by suffering. My feelings for him didn’t cripple me anymore because I was crippled by something far greater. Only then did the universe conspire to give him to me.”

😭😭😭

pls i can’t wait for him to find out about jonah the cunt

“A single red hair on top of my pillow, curled around on itself like an ouroboros, the symbol for eternity, the snake eating its own tail. Snakes are symbols of transformation. Change.”

i love his inner monologue he’s so funny

“She’s sleeping when I get back, curled up into a little ball. I take a photo of her, suspending the lens directly over her where she lies, tucked into the fetal position, and I know innately that it will be my favorite photo of all time; it could come out blurry as hell and super under exposed and I’ll never take a better one.”

🥹🥹🥹

aww they’re finally happening

fuck is his mum’s issue

“I’d thrown it up an hour later, but it hadn’t mattered. I hadn’t even started my period then.”

this is devastating

??????? HELLO
what chapter does he die

“I am Genesis, the beginning. You are Omega, the end.”

i love their co-written story 🥹🥹

“I print off the attachment she sent and then rip through her words, so ready to tear her work apart. The pen in my hand, poised and ready to start scribbling a slew of vicious criticism down in the margins, remains pressed into the paper, not moving a millimeter as I devour line after line of her work.”

“It’s fucking excellent, and I am too furious for words.”

GOODBYE

“Out of nowhere, I realize that she looks like the woman from Gustaz Klimt’s ‘The Kiss,’ dripping in gold. She’s fucking beautiful.”