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‘This wasn’t just about HIM—his Christmas pasts, his guilt, his grief. It was about her, too, & she was ready to turn the page from past to future.’

—There was a raging, clawing beast inside his chest. He didn’t understand why it didn’t burst free, why the kiss remained gentle, why his grip on her was soft as it traveled up her arms to her shoulders to bring her closer.
—“This will solve nothing,” she murmured, there against his mouth, even as she pressed herself against him.
—“Good.” Because he didn’t want to solve. He wanted to ruin.

‘He wanted to believe there was something deceitful in it, in her, but he just didn’t think it was underhanded at all. She didn’t seem to have underhand in her. Which made her feel…dangerous. Like she had all the power & he had nothing. She pulled every string, & he would simply dance. Because she was good & right.’

‘What she’d said to him might be an offer. And that was a terrifying thought, all things considered. Esp when that sharp smile didn’t change, when that dark gaze that felt as hot & heavy as a brand only became more so. When her entire body reacted, like she’d simply been a match waiting for friction to come alight. If she were someone else, would that be the kind of thrill she jumped into headfirst?’

—“I won’t bother you ever again, except to do your express bidding. Unless you’d like to fire me, that is.”
—His gaze moved over her, & she had no idea what he was cataloging when he did that. What he saw. What it meant to him. But he seemed to keep doing it, taking her in as a whole.
—“Such promises,” he muttered darkly, then pushed past her & out of the cabin.

‘Diego did not like the feeling of being speechless. He did not like the feeling of being maneuvered. He did not like feeling, & she was causing many of those to rumble around inside him like unwieldy ghosts.’

‘A good man. She dealt with a stern, taciturn, grumpy man—via email & texts mostly. She had never considered Diego good or evil. Honestly, he was more of a robot overlord to her than anything else. But her father had thought he would be a good man someday. Her father had wished this.’