Jessa Hastings

All 20 year old Daisy Haites has ever wanted is a normal life, but it's just not on the cards for her. Raised by her older brother Julian since their parents were murdered in front of them 12 years ago, Daisy hasn't ever lived beyond the watchful gaze of her gang lord brother. But Julian's line of work means that Daisy's life is...complicated. And things don't become any less complex when she falls hard for Christian Hemmes, the beautiful and emotionally unavailable boy she's been involved with for the last few months, who also happens to be one of the few men in London who doesn't answer to Julian. Christian's life is no walk in the park either, being in love with his best friend's girlfriend and all? He's happy enough to use Daisy to throw off the scent of his true affections, that is until she starts to infiltrate those too.As their romance blossoms into something neither were anticipating, Daisy, Christian, and Julian each have to come to terms with the fact that in this life everything comes at a price. As their relationships intersect and tangle, they all learn that sometimes life's most worthwhile pursuits can only be paid in blood.

Daisy Haites

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“I think I understand for a fleeting moment why everything that’s bad and painful and sad is worth it if you love someone, because I’ll remember how he’s looking at me now forever.”

Olivia 

“Cross me and I will kill you. Disrespect me, and I’ll kill you twice.” 

“I don’t like feeling like this about someone, this unbridled, free-falling, slippery, fragile thing that is to love him because he- Christian, who is standing right in front of me- is never going to want me how I want him.” 

“I have a little notebook in my drawer by my bed where I try to keep track of how many people my brother’s killed so I can at least save that many and maybe that will balance everything out a little in the universe and we won’t go to hell for everything we’ve done.” 

“He’s not just my brother, he’s not just my best friend, he’s my father and my protector and my family and my home- and Romeo meant the world to me, but my brother meant the universe.”

Sophia

Beej tilts his head at her, eyes all soft, looking at her like she’s just his.

“You are a bit hard to sleep with…” BJ concedes and she shifts in his embrace. Yes, they’re still holding on to each other. Yes, they’re that fucked up.

Why do I kinda ship her with the police guy

“My, my!” She squashes a smile. “That is a comprehensive little folder you’ve got there. If you know that, then you really do know how good I look in navy lingerie.”

He stops and squints for a second, then shrugs. “I liked you better in the white.”

“Do you?” he asked, a little miffed. And I don’t know why, but him looking a little deflated made me feel a tiny bit happy.

“Not really,” I conceded, and he perked right back up.

He started laughing and a piece of his laugh snagged on my heart and I didn’t want him to stop. We stayed like that for a while, at least a quarter of an hour, his hands on mine. Me on his lap, his chin on my shoulder.

I like getting breakfast with her. Like how her hair looks in the mornings, how puffy her lips go. I like how she never orders the same thing, ever, even when I can tell she wants to get what she had the day before, she won’t. There are strange things she does, learned, I think from the weird world we come from.

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