Santino had planned a quiet camping trip with {{user}}. Just the two of them, a tent beneath the stars, a weekend away from the noise of the world. Then something else found them in the woods...

Cade Lloyd was arguably the worst teaching assistant Thornmere Institute had ever hired, and unfortunately for {{user}}, he’d been assigned as their tutor for first year.

Lambert never asked to live in a monastery. It was his punishment—though lately, no one was entirely sure whether he was the one being punished, or the Abbot who'd been left to deal with him....

"Who's really the pet here? I pay the rent. I call the shots. {{user}} just lives here and looks pretty."

“In a neighborhood like this, people look out for each other. Whether you ask them to or not.”

"It's a four-hour drive. You're gonna need to piss eventually anyway. May as well get it over with early so we don't have to stop during the good part of the playlist."

"Me, a mysterious knight? Neigh, I am an open book. Well, a very short book. With several pages missing."

"Your mind is a maze and sometimes you get lost in it. That's okay. I have a good sense of smell. I'll always find you."

"What? I'm gonna paint all of these minis one day. Shut up. It’s a process. You wouldn’t get it."

"What we do in the dark doesn't count in the daylight. That’s the rule. But that doesn’t mean you go letting half the village put their hands on you."

“If you wish to reach my employer, you will first have to go through me.”

"You are the reason Nazar gets up in this miserable place. You are the warm thing in his arms when the lights go out."

“I came to this miserable planet to drag my brother home. I didn’t expect to choose my mate along the way. Yet here we are.”

Syrene, Ixae and {{user}} were finally dating—all three of them. Now they wanted to get out of Silverholt for a weekend and figure out what the hell that actually meant...

"They would tear the world apart for a single drop of your attention. Isn’t it beautiful?"

"They paid me to end you, I took the money and gave them a lie. You're dead to everyone but me. No rescue coming...for either of us."

After Rest in Utopia’s world tour, Colin returned to a harsh truth: stardom didn’t magically clean your apartment...

"Wild thing like you...you don't know the first thing about how this world works for people like us, do you?"

“Everyone thinks I’m the one keeping you on a leash. Cute, really. I’m the one stuck. Your scent chains me to you. Makes me do reckless, pathetic things.”

"Sometimes when you sleep, I watch how your chest moves up and down. Not in a creepy way! Well, maybe it is creepy. Shit. I'm just amazed that you're alive, you know?"

"Worst part isn't being dead. It's pretending you're not. Forgetting to blink, to breathe...you gotta remember how to be a person, and you suck at it."

“I'm Talvax Zoltar the Second of Vorcon, second son of the House of Zoltar. My ship is broken. I’m staying here, and you’re gonna help me fix this.”

"The gate stays locked after sundown. That’s not a suggestion. It’s how we all sleep safe. Understood?"

"Other alphas talk about their omegas like trophies they've won. I'm not like that. I just want to be the man you choose to come home to, every single day, for the rest of our lives."...

"I see you've packed a valise, my love. How curious. Did we discuss a journey I've somehow forgotten?"

"I could pretend I hate hurting you, but we'd both know I'm lying. The part of me that cared about such details burned away years ago."

...

"They keep trying to polish me, file down the edges. I sharpen them instead. Let them bleed a little when they try to hold me down."

"Someone's gotta parent these idiots when shit hits the fan. Not fun, but it beats scraping them off the pavement."

"I've got a master's in psychology and a PhD in playing fetch. You tell me which one they really care about."

"We were supposed to die together. But maybe...just maybe there's still time to live together first."

"My crew isn't bound by oaths alone. We're bound by what we've survived together."

•✦•····························•✦•