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Sierra Simone

American Queen

    emma hhas quoted4 months ago
    Love is kind.

    Love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude.
    b7887439768has quoted5 months ago
    until the ceremony, he wanted this
    amishreyahas quoted9 months ago
    “I don’t care. Anything—I’ll let you do anything to me.”

    “I believe you. That’s why you’re so dangerous.”
    amishreyahas quoted9 months ago
    “Tell me you’re eighteen,” he whispered.

    “I’m not.”

    “Damn you.”

    And then he tilted my face back up to his, and his mouth came down over mine anyway.
    amishreyahas quoted9 months ago
    “You’re trembling. Are you scared of me?”
    amishreyahas quoted9 months ago
    “You’ll cut yourself if you’re not careful,” an unfamiliar voice said from the patio door.
    amishreyahas quoted9 months ago
    I look down at my hand, still held tightly by Embry’s. How did I end up tangled with these two men? The two most powerful men in the free world?
    amishreyahas quoted9 months ago
    “You don’t?”

    I glance down at my hands. On my right pointer finger, there is the world’s smallest scar—so small it can’t be seen. It can only be discerned in the way it disrupts the looping whorls of my fingerprint, a tiny white notch in a tiny white ridge.

    A needle of a scar, a hot knife of a memory.

    The smell of fire and leather.

    Firm lips on my skin.

    The warm crimson of blood.

    “I don’t,”
    amishreyahas quoted9 months ago
    “I hear not all priests are that chaste these days.”

    “Chaste as a nun then.”
    amishreyahas quoted9 months ago
    Because, of course, Embry had once been very good at forgetting me.
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