Defied

Defied

Maria Luis — 2018

I am both a sinner and a saint, but I bleed vengeance. For years, I've lived in the grey... until her. Avery Washington didn't belong in the shadows, but I dragged her into the darkness anyway. One kiss, and I would stop at nothing to possess her. One caress, and my need to destroy wavered.Our attraction was poison and pleasure.They say the devil recognizes his own, but I never saw Avery coming.She's determined to light the matchsticks, and I can't resist going down in flames... Defied is the final book in the Blood Duet and should not be read before Sworn.

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Emily Gay@carefullyemily

Nov 15, 2022

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Sep 24, 2021

Highlights

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She twisted to stare up at me. "How will you find me?" Another nudge, this one to her ass. "I'll always find you, sweetheart. Always."

Page 287

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My heart thundered with the words I only knew with her: I love you. Iloveyou, iloveyou.

Page 272

Lincoln's Thoughts

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With her, I'd done a lot of things that weren't very me. Picnics under the moonlight. Conversations that didn't stick on sex and only sex. Falling in love.

Page 271

Lincoln's Thoughts

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Gorgeous. So fucking gorgeous, and she was all mine.

Page 269

Lincoln's Thoughts

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If I had it my way, she'd be suctioned to my side for the rest of our lives. My wife, my anchor, the future mother of our children. Fuck, I wanted it so bad.

Page 268

Lincoln's Thoughts

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"You were made for me, Avery,"... "everything that you are... was made for me."

Page 129

Lincoln to Avery

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Us. Two little letters and yet they warmed my heart like no other.

Page 114

Lincoln's Thoughts

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"How about, for tonight, we both pretend to be something we're not?" "What're you pretending to be?" "Yours."

Page 112

Avery propositioning Lincoln

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Someone could have held me at gunpoint, and I still wouldn't have wrenched my gaze away from her face.

Page 110

Lincoln about Avery

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I couldn't- for the life of me - walk away from how I felt around her. Alive. Human. A numbed man finally unthawing to the world.

Page 106

Lincoln about Avery

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"You need me, I'm here. You don't need me, I'm still gonna be right here, waiting."

Page 93

Lincoln to Avery

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"I'll be dead before I let them touch you."

Page 93

Lincoln to Avery