"Watch it." he said at last. "I can make your life miserable." I gave him an icy smile. "You already have, and that's why i've got the advantage. You've done your worst - but you haven't seen what i can do yet."

You…you got rid of that dress fast," I pointed out between heavy breaths. "I thought you liked it." "I do like it," he said. His breathing was as heavy as mine. "I love it." And then he took me to the bed.

Adrian sighed. "I knew you staying out of trouble was too good to be true.

Is it really so terrible being around us?" I blushed. "No," I said. "But . . . it's complicated. I've been taught certain things my entire life. Those are hard to shake." "The greatest changes in history have come because people were able to shake off what others told them to do.

My muse is an ungrateful harlot who’s abandoned me to actually come up with my own plots.

How we love others is affected by how we love ourselves, and for the first time in a long time, I was whole.

God might work on mysterious ways, but hell worked on efficient ones.