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356 pages, Paperback
First published November 18, 2014
He buried his face in my throat. "Love you."
Tears stung my eyes…
"Tell me again," I begged, holding on to him.
His mouth found mine. "I love you."
"Despite all he'd been though, he had such an amazing capacity to feel and to love. He'd saved me, in so many ways. I was going to do whatever needed to be done to save him, too."
"I told you I was going to fuck this up. I'll fuck up again. I don't know what the hell I'm doing, but God… I love you. I love you so fucking much. I can't do this without you. I can't live without you."
"You'll never be without me. We're going to grow old together. Die together. I'm not going to live a single day without you."
I LOVE YOU GIDEON CROSS
“Gideon was a force of nature, his magnetic self-possession so powerful it put everyone around him in his shadow.”
“Honestly, Gideon Cross had been designed to fuck a woman right out of her mind.”
“Reminds me of the red dress you wore the first time I had you. That was it for me, you know. You devastated me. There was no coming back from that.”
“Gideon was a man who’d lived an entirely solitary life, and yet he’d accepted me into it so completely that he could envision a future I was afraid to imagine. I was so scared I’d only be setting myself up for a heartbreak I couldn’t survive.”
Some couples punished each other with pain or deprivation. Eva and I, we punished each other with pleasure.
~ GIDEON
“Don’t be like that. Don’t get all icy and freeze me out.”
“You’ll have to forgive me. Listening to my wife tell me she’s confused over another man doesn’t put me in a good mood.”
“I couldn’t go back to you, Brett. Not after Gideon.”
“You say that now.”
“He makes me feel like he can’t breathe without me. I couldn’t settle for less.”
G: “Yes, I was different! You made me different.”
E: “And you hate me for that.” I started crying.
G: “No.” He wrapped himself around me.
“You’re the reason I breathe, I can’t turn it off. I think of nothing but you. All day. Every day. Everything I do, I do with you on my mind. There’s no room for anyone else. It kills me that you have room for him.”
Gideon said to me once, that he’ll live with me loving another man just as long as he had me.
~ EVA
“I’m sorry,” For everything. For all you’re giving up to be with me.
~ GIDEON
I texted her constantly. Pleas for her to call me. Notes about nothing. Comments about work. And most of all, I love you. I typed them a lot. Over and over again. I didn’t want her to forget that. Whatever my faults and fuckups, everything I did or thought or felt was love for her.
~ GIDEON
“I’m hanging on by a thread, Eva.”
“You don’t have to hang on. Let go. I’ll catch you.”
I would set the world on fire to clear a path for her, if thats what it took.
He was complicated and sexy and damaged and perfect.
“You two are wackjobs separately, together, you’re a goddamn nut house.”
"You have to stick with me. You promised. I told you I was going to fuck this up. I'll fuck up again. I don't know what the hell I'm doing, but God... I love you. I love you so fucking much. I can't do this without you. I can't live without you."As I said before, I will read anything with Gideon in it and I am already excited for the next installment.
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He didn’t see in himself what I saw— a generous soul who wanted so much to belong to something greater than himself. He didn’t recognize what a miracle he was. When he didn’t know what to do in a given situation, he let instinct and his heart take over. Despite all he’d been through, he had such an amazing capacity to feel and to love.Gideon has his prize - after chasing and struggling for several months, Eva is now his wife. The rest of the world might not realize that Gideon and Eva have tied the knot, but there's no mistaking that she is his.
For now, Gideon and I had secrets we could share only with each other, and that kept us isolated and codependent. It wasn’t only innocence our abusers had taken away from us; they’d also taken our freedom. Even after the abuse was long over, we were still caged by the false fronts we lived behind. Still caged by lies, but in a different way.Eva is still struggling with the fact that Gideon keeps silent about his troubles. He doesn't share the content of his nightmares. He keeps secrets, and tries to remain an island. That doesn't work for her anymore. If they're going to be married she expects an equal partnership, but Gideon can't seem to deliver.
"...Love should be easier than this,” I complained.Scenes like that were reminiscent of the classic 'Fortune Cookie' scene from book one and reminded me why I love this series.
“If this were a romantic comedy, it’d be called Love Actually Sucks.”
“Maybe we should’ve stuck with Sex and the City.”
“Tried that. Ended up Knocked Up. I should’ve gone for being a 40-Year-Old Virgin, but I had way too much of a head start.”
“We can write a manual on How to Lose a Guy in 10 Weeks.”
Cary looked at me. “Fucking perfect.”
"You can tell yourself that Eva and I are incompatible," I said tightly, "That we're either fighting or fucking with nothing of substance in between. But the truth is that she's the other half of me..."If you'd like to test this book out before you buy it, you can read the FIRST THREE CHAPTERS ON Sylvia Day's Website for FREE!
“You okay, angel mine?”
“I’m in your arms. Life doesn’t get better than this.”
“Are you in love, Mr. Cross?”
“Irrevocably.”
“You’re the reason I breathe, I can’t turn it off. I think of nothing but you. All day. Every day. Everything I do, I do with you in mind. There’s no room for anyone else.”
“She was every promise, every hope, every fantasy a man could have. And she was mine.”
“She’s the chink in your armor, you heartless piece of shit. You’ve got ice in your veins, but she bleeds … It’s time to pay, and your billions won’t cover the debt.”
“I would set the world on fire to clear a path for her, if that’s what it took.”
“I’m hanging on by a thread, Eva.”
“You don’t have to hang on. Let go. I’ll catch you.”