This woman could be my downfall. Could make me forget who I am. All I am.

Everything is because I love you.

The burning ache within me amplifies, and my head swims with the memory of every second I had her restrained and at my mercy. But somehow, now I realize that it was entirely me at her mercy. Just like now. This woman is stirring something in me.

She could be more scared than I am. And I don't know what to do to reassure her, especially since I'm trying to reassure myself.

We're more broken if we don't have each other. Let me put us back together again. I need you, Olivia. Desperately. You're making my world light

I'm chained make no mistake, but I am the most free I've ever been.

If happiness was a chain, it would be platinum with solid hearts between every link and entwined around my swelling heart.

You are my soul, Olivia Taylor. You are my light. You are my reason to breathe. Don't ever doubt that.

When I couldn't distract myself with work, that's all I had. They were faceless women, angel." Dipping, he pushes his scratchy cheek into mine and whispers in my ear. "I see you