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"I want to defile you, destroy you, corrupt you in the most sinfully beautiful way. Break you until you're completely mine." "Love can be holy." He said but the look in his eyes promised anything but. "It can be kind and gentle. It can be the flutter in your chest when you feel someone touch you, the blush staining your cheeks when someone brushes his knuckles over them." To prove his point further, he took his knuckles and brushed them over her sharp jaw all the way to her lightly dusted cheeks and sharp cheekbones. "However, love can also be vile. Dark and all-consuming. It can make you want to fall to your knees and let it destroy you." He let his palm rest on her soft skin and felt the warmth she provided so carelessly travel to him. "That's all I can offer you." Nathaniel Russ is a man devoid of passion. Cold, stern, a tragedy with skin. He spends countless hours teaching philosophy at the local university, waiting for something to make the words crawl out of him with the same vigorous appetite they once did. And he does, at the most unexpected moment. Guinevere Westbrook is a woman haunted by the sins of her past. And she's the muse he had been waiting for, even though she refuses to accept it. So, he orchestrates a game meant for two. A game. That's all it was. Until it wasn't.
“Through me you pass into the city of woe:
Through me you pass into eternal pain:
Through me among the people lost for aye.
Justice the founder of my fabric moved:
To rear me was the task of power divine,
Supremest wisdom, and primeval love.
Before me things create were none,
save things Eternal, and eternal I shall endure.
All hope abandon, ye who enter here.” - Dante Alighieri
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ktkirata: The story is really interesting. How the character described in the story is like you can see them and picture how they move, talk and feel in the every plots. Well done writer and keep it up.
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Hester: Very good, was short too the point , not lingering on the abuse, pity you didn’t let him step in earlier knowing the abuse was happening, but this is almost real for some women who have gone through it, just wish they could all have a princess at te end of thete tunnel
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Catherineb83: Story good just would have liked her not to wear a mask
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ILoveBooks: Excellent read! Strong characters. Engaging and captivating gently. Love love love this story. Thank you.
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jonahlee: at first i though it was a historical romance but realized it was a modern novel.I loved it ,great storyline
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barb7604: Very good story, but glad you are writing a longer version. The end came way to quick without any of the previous drama
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Michael: I was completely shocked because I did not think I was going to like this at all, but it happened. I fell in love with it. I'm cool with it. Thank you very much for sharing this, and I look forward to more work from you.
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Jeanne: A lovely story without endless drama. Just 2 people finding each other. Truly enjoyable. Goal achieved! Thank you.
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Melissa: I like the nice wolves. I don't like the redundancy of her self loathing.
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love that piece by Dante, hope his muse is as Dante's beatrice ❤❤
I buckle up. Now I'm ready for the journey
Love the Divine Comedy Reference! The inscription over the gate of hell he passes through.