{"author":"A. Zavarelli","author_id":"A.+Zavarelli","total_quotes":29,"quotes":[{"text":"This was worse than a coke binge. Worse than black tar or the thrill of E. This was the devil himself snaking his way inside of my heart and bending me to his will. This was addiction, quickly morphing into obsession. And somewhere in the clouded fog that was my brain, I knew this was a game I was going to lose.","author":"A. Zavarelli","tags":["addiction","dark","love","obsession","twisted"],"id":1077,"author_id":"A.+Zavarelli"},{"text":"I needed to channel the darkness that ran through my veins and embrace it. To play this game better than this man ever could have predicted. After all, I’d only been with him twice, and already I could see his weakness. His weakness was me.","author":"A. Zavarelli","tags":["alpha","dark-romance","dominance","love","possession","revenge","submission","surrender"],"id":59585,"author_id":"A.+Zavarelli"},{"text":"The last five years had been a series of carefully orchestrated events. Every move, every strategy had been poured over in painstaking detail before it was set into motion. Pieces on a chess board. A collision of fate and circumstance. I’d planned for every hitch. Every contingency. Except the one that blindsided me like a vat of acid to the face. I fell in love with her.","author":"A. Zavarelli","tags":["control","dark-romance","dominance","love","possession","revenge","submission","surrender"],"id":66512,"author_id":"A.+Zavarelli"},{"text":"His heart is the rhythm, mine is the echo.","author":"A. Zavarelli","tags":["alpha","dark-romance","dominance","heart","love","possession","revenge","submission","surrender"],"id":69392,"author_id":"A.+Zavarelli"},{"text":"I’m not letting you go, baby girl. You need to accept that.","author":"A. Zavarelli","tags":["alpha","dark-romance","dominance","love","possession","revenge","submission","surrender"],"id":108522,"author_id":"A.+Zavarelli"},{"text":"It wasn’t desire, it was biology. My body was adapting to the situation. Doing what it needed to survive. That, I was certain of. Because if I had liked it, liked the hands of this monster, that would have made me a monster too.","author":"A. Zavarelli","tags":["alpha","dark-romance","dominance","love","possession","revenge","submission","surrender"],"id":115137,"author_id":"A.+Zavarelli"},{"text":"I have no idea why, but I'm grinning back at her. This temperamental, wild creature in front of me who has the nerve to put me in my place.","author":"A. Zavarelli","tags":["attraction","love","romance"],"id":140851,"author_id":"A.+Zavarelli"},{"text":"I didn’t know what to say. What to do. I didn’t feel strong anymore. I felt like I couldn’t go on without him. He loved me fiercely. Obsessively. Rivalled only by the intensity which I felt for him. So why couldn’t we be together?","author":"A. Zavarelli","tags":["alpha","dark-romance","dominance","heart-broken","love","possession","revenge","submission","surrender"],"id":169638,"author_id":"A.+Zavarelli"},{"text":"Was it cruel if someone asked for it? Begged for it, even? She always begged. Even now, I could hear her whimpering for me. Christ, those noises she made. A one-way ticket to heaven.","author":"A. Zavarelli","tags":["alpha","control","dominance","love","possession","submission","surrender"],"id":173841,"author_id":"A.+Zavarelli"},{"text":"She was the only antidote for the bleakness that lived inside of me. My goddess. My deity. I wasn’t a believer in any religion, but I’d make an exception in this case. I’d get down on my knees and worship at her alter every day if it brought her back to me.","author":"A. Zavarelli","tags":["alpha","dark-romance","dominance","love","possession","revenge","submission","surrender"],"id":176790,"author_id":"A.+Zavarelli"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":29,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}