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• “Possess. Have. Hold. Enjoy. Control. Dominate. Pick your verb, Ms. Fairchild. I intend to explore so very many of them.”

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• “Do you know what passion is?”
  I blink, confused.
  “Most people think it only means desire. Arousal. Wild abandon. But that’s not all. The word derives from the Latin. It means suffering. Submission. Pain and pleasure, Nikki. Passion.”

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• “Everyone breaks a little sometimes. That doesn't make you weak. It makes you wounded.”

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• “Everyone breaks a little sometimes. That doesn't make you weak. It makes you wounded. And I will always be there to help you heal”

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• “You have captured me utterly, and you hold my heart in your hands. Be gentle with it. It's more fragile than you might think.”

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• “I am not "cured"--I know I never will be. I will always crave that pain to keep me centered. I will always be just a little astounded when I get through a crisis without putting a blade to my flesh.”

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• “I'm going to fuck you, Nikki. Pleasure? We're going to blow the roof off pleasure. I'm going to make you beg for it. I'm going to claim you. I'm going to tease you. I'm going to torment you. And you're going to come for me like you've never come in your life.”

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• “He is Jason and Hercules and Perseus---a figure so strong and beautiful and heroic that the blood of the gods must flow through him, because how else could a being so fine exist in this world?”

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• “Maybe you aren't as smart as you think you are, Mr. Stark."
  
  "Nonsense. I'm fucking brilliant. Or haven't you heard?”

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• “—except for the fact that your scars mean you’ve been hurting, I am one-hundred-percent cool with having them in the painting. Some models, especially the professional ones, it’s like painting air-brushed people. Give me something raw any day.”

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• “I don't want you to have to handle it. That's the horror of my past. But you...you're the reality of my present. You're the proof I survived. The prize in the cereal box.”

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• “You’re what gives me strength. If I am what centers you, Nikki, then you are what anchors me. Every time I touch you, every time I bury myself deep inside you—Nikki, don’t you see?
  You are the talisman of my life, and if I lose my grip on you, then I have lost myself.”

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• “Wherever I am, you belong. You're mine. Say it.”

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• “Whatever you need from me, all you have to do is take it. You know that.”

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• “Because I can. Because I want you. Because I don’t want to court my way up to our first fuck. And because I don’t want to play games.”

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• “A smile is his only answer, but it doesn't matter. I already know how, and it doesn't scare me: Damien Stark can see beneath my mask.”

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• “I’m smart enough to know that you feel it, too. This isn’t just heat, it’s a goddamned conflagration. Not chemistry, but nuclear fission.”

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• “Maybe this man does have secrets and skeletons. But right now, I’m seeing his heart. And I like what I see.”

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• “You humble me, Nikki. Don't you see that? It must be clear from my expression that I do not, because he goes on. "If I do all those things for you--soothe you, center you, give you strength--then that is worth more to me than every penny I have earned building Stark International.”

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• “When I am no longer a limp noodle and can actually compel my limbs to function, I get off the table and back into my robe. Damien and I leave at the same time, and Jamie’s door opens as we’re passing. She looks between me and Damien, then glances sideways at her masseuse, a tall blond man with large, capable-looking hands.
  “You know,” Jamie says dryly, “nothing personal, but I don’t think I got the same level of service that she did.”
  To his credit, the masseuse smiles. “Come,” he says, gesturing for her to follow.
  “That’s the problem,” she mutters to me as she passes, “I didn’t.”

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• “So I balanced the weight of my past against the promise of my future.”

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• “I don't want an icon. Not on my wall, not in my bed. I want the woman, Nikki. I want you.”

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• “I wanted every sensation you experienced— every spark of pleasure, every hint of pain— to come from me. I wanted to fuck you until you begged me to stop and then I wanted to fuck you some more. Everything you felt, everything you wanted, everything you desired— I wanted it to be wrapped up in my touch, in my bed. I wanted to fuck you until there was nothing left but you and me. Until the whole goddamn world was erased.”

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• “If that’s what it takes to protect you, I will leave you. Even if it kills me.”

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• “Because Damien Stark is like crack to me. Seductive and very, very addictive.”

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