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  • Mending a Malone by Laylah Roberts

    Mending a Malone by Laylah Roberts

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Jaret Malone has a problem . . .A five-foot-two curvy, crazy problem. One who doesn’t seem to take no for an answer.After his last relationship ended disastrously, he has had no interest in getting involved with someone else.Especially not some insane woman who seems to think that her grandmother left him to her in her will.Nobody tells a Malone what to do . .
  • The Light to My Darkness by Ivy Smoak

    The Light to My Darkness by Ivy Smoak

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    My relationship with my husband has been splashed all over the tabloids ever since we first started dating. What should I have expected when I took New York City's most eligible bachelor off the market? But no matter how long I'm with my husband, I can't shake the feeling that a stroke of luck brought me here. That I don't deserve the life around me...
  • Kiss Me with Lies by S.M. Soto

    Kiss Me with Lies by S.M. Soto

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Two sisters. One unsolved murder. A sickening plot for revenge. When Mackenzie Wright attends her first real high school party, held somewhere deep in the woods of her small California town, no one expects to wake up the next morning to news of a gruesome murder. Especially not her own sister's. No suspects. No motive. No convictions...
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    high-school  revenge  steamy  abuse  adult  alpha-mc  angst  anti-hero
  • Truth by Aleatha Romig, Esra Çetin

    Truth by Aleatha Romig, Esra Çetin

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Aleatha Romig comes the thrilling sequel in the Consequences series: Truth, a game of deception, intrigue, and conspiracy where losing can be deadly.Claire survived the consequences. Through strength and compartmentalization, Claire Nichols captivated her captor...
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    age-gap  revenge  steamy  abuse  adult  alpha-mc  angst  anti-hero
  • Behind His Eyes - Truth by Aleatha Romig

    Behind His Eyes - Truth by Aleatha Romig

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    CONSEQUENCES SERIES READING COMPANION:Book # 2.5 of the Consequences series: From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Aleatha Romig comes the much-anticipated second companion to the suspenseful thriller about secrets and deception, passion and love, and choices and consequences.Truth is relative.By delivering the consequences, Anthony has proven he is a man of his word...
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    age-gap  revenge  steamy  abuse  adult  alpha-mc  angst  anti-hero
  • Six Feet Under by Whitney Barbetti

    Six Feet Under by Whitney Barbetti

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Six wasn’t the hero I needed. But he was the man I wanted. And it was my selfish craving, the desire to own him, that would be our undoing. No one tells you that love is a disease. An infection that tears your heart apart, leaving you half the person you were before. A malady that leaves open wounds...
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    age-gap  steamy  abuse  adult  alpha-mc  angst  betrayal  book
  • Revealed: The Missing Years by Aleatha Romig

    Revealed: The Missing Years by Aleatha Romig

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Aleatha Romig comes the thrilling continuation of a powerful series about secrets and deception, passion and love, and choices and consequences. The unexpected fourth novel of the Consequences series, REVEALED: The Missing Years is..
  • Break Free by R.A. Smyth

    Break Free by R.A. Smyth

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    He thinks they’ve broken me.He thinks I’m nothing but an empty shell, ready to be molded into their perfect soldier, his perfect wife, a damaged plaything.He might be right.I’ve never been so exhausted, beaten down, and wary. I’m so close to giving up, so close to accepting my defeat and twisted fate...
    Categorized as:
    age-gap  high-school  revenge  steamy  abuse  alpha-mc  assassins  book
  • This Isn't Fair, Baby by K. Webster

    This Isn't Fair, Baby by K. Webster

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    ***This is the sixth book in the series. First five books must be read in order to fully understand this story line.*** The king in my world fell and a new one slid into place. He wasn’t just. He wasn’t FAIR. He was cruel and hateful and twisted. But I had this black king figured out. Or so I thought...
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    age-gap  revenge  steamy  abuse  adult  alpha-mc  angst  book
  • Broken Hearts by Stella Hart

    Broken Hearts by Stella Hart

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I love him, and it’s killing me… I never thought this would happen, but here I am—a willing captive to the most sinfully-handsome serial killer the world has ever seen. I belong to him now, the man who is both my savior and my downfall. The man who will probably destroy me one day, just like he’s destroyed so many others before me. If I want to live, I have to be a good girl...
    Categorized as:
    age-gap  revenge  steamy  adult  book  captivity  contemporary  crime
  • Pretty Stolen Dolls by Ker Dukey

    Pretty Stolen Dolls by Ker Dukey

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    From bestselling authors Ker Dukey & K Webster comes the heart-stopping, internationally bestselling crime thriller Pretty Stolen Dolls.Have you ever had to make a decision that haunts you every single day for the rest of your life—the life you stole back? I have...
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    age-gap  revenge  steamy  abuse  adult  alpha-mc  angst  book
  • VII: Seven by Lana Sky

    VII: Seven by Lana Sky

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    WHEN OBSESSION BECOMES DESIRE… Ellen Winthorp has no choice but to rely on the protection of Mischa Stepanov—the vicious mafia leader who captured and disfigured her. But the more she learns about him, the deeper she falls into a world of violence, deception and intrigue where danger lurks around every corner...
    Categorized as:
    revenge  steamy  abuse  adult  anti-hero  audiobook  billionaire  book
  • Hunter's Revenge by Faith Summers, Khardine Gray

    Hunter's Revenge by Faith Summers, Khardine Gray

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    My monster. My hunter. My husband. It all started with a chance meeting in a bar that was almost normal. I was drowning my sorrows, and he was the deadly handsome mysterious stranger who walked in. He had that dangerous air about him I was always warned to stay away from, yet like a moth to a flame I was captivated by his charm. All it took was one touch and I couldn't resist...
  • Inked Babies: Epilogue to Inked Brotherhood by Jo Raven

    Inked Babies: Epilogue to Inked Brotherhood by Jo Raven

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    This is the epilogue to the bestselling series Inked Brotherhood. Follow the five boys and their girls as they get married, have babies... and save Zane from his demons. Five brothers in all but blood, five girls who love them, emerging from a past fraught with darkness and danger. There are wedding bells, and baby cries and laughter all around. They have found their happy ending...
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    revenge  steamy  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  crime  dark
  • James the Christmas Grouch by Ivy Smoak

    James the Christmas Grouch by Ivy Smoak

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The stockings are hung, the lights are aglow, and the mistletoe is ready for kisses to be stolen beneath it. There’s just one problem…none of those decorations are in James and my apartment. We just started our happily ever after – we’re newly engaged, in a new city, with new friends...
  • Pieces of a Life by Jewel E. Ann

    Pieces of a Life by Jewel E. Ann

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The summer before fourth grade, Colten Mosley moved into the house across the street from mine, and we became inseparable.He played the piano and baseball.I had a penchant for dead things while at the same time imagining what it would be like to kiss Colten.We were filled with curiosity and overly active imaginations.We were also forbidden to be more than friends.But that didn’t stop us...
  • Black Light: Branded by Kay Elle Parker

    Black Light: Branded by Kay Elle Parker

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    An emotionally rivoting standalone book set in the Black Light world. She put her trust in him for a night.Now they both want forever.Ava McGee is a nobody, plagued by the voice of her father, driven to self-harm. Scarred and broken, tortured by doubts and a lack of self-worth, she doesn’t think she deserves to be loved.She doesn’t want to be a burden...
  • Provocation by T.K. Leigh

    Provocation by T.K. Leigh

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    One week. No names. No expectations.That was our agreement. We were supposed to walk away once our time in Hawaii was over. No matter what.But that was before I finally decided to take a risk and jump.And that’s precisely what being involved with Lachlan Hale is… A risk...
  • Behind His Eyes - Consequences by Aleatha Romig

    Behind His Eyes - Consequences by Aleatha Romig

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Aleatha Romig comes the much-anticipated first companion to the suspenseful thriller about secrets and deception, passion and love, and choices and consequences...
    Categorized as:
    age-gap  revenge  steamy  abuse  adult  alpha-mc  angst  anti-hero
  • Black Hearts: A Dark Captive Romance by Stella Hart

    Black Hearts: A Dark Captive Romance by Stella Hart

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    It takes a monster to destroy a monster. My enemies have taken Celeste. Kidnapped her to torture and kill her. I won’t stop looking for her. Won’t give up on her. I’ll destroy anyone and anything that gets in my way, and the punishment for those who have taken her will be brutal and unmerciful. She belongs with me. She belongs to me. I’m never letting go. Ever...
    Categorized as:
    age-gap  steamy  adult  book  contemporary  crime  dark  fiction
  • Complicated Love: A Black Light Novel by Livia Grant

    Complicated Love: A Black Light Novel by Livia Grant

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    ★Keeping two lovers in sync is hard enough. Three is incredibly complicated.★ Jaxson, Chase, and Emma may have officially bit off more than they can chew. Already running two wildly successful clubs in Washington D.C., they decide to expand, opening Runway West and Black Light West in luxurious Beverly Hills, California.  But there is no relaxing for the infamous threesome...
  • Sleep for Me by Kay Elle Parker

    Sleep for Me by Kay Elle Parker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    As one of the new Masters of Avalon, Saul Danvers takes his responsibilities seriously. With two Masters absent from the club, he knows it's not the best time to take a few days' vacation, but he needs to clear his head...
  • Cosa Nostra by Nicci Harris

    Cosa Nostra by Nicci Harris

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    "I love you, Max Butcher." Those words are dangerous. Just about as dangerous as the world I was born into. As dangerous as the ruthless bastards that I call family.They hurt her.My. Little. Ballerina. . . My piece of purity.They hurt her. . .I wanted to keep the world beautiful for her.I failed.So I should let her go. For her own safety and my sanity.But she crawled into my bed...
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    age-gap  steamy  adult  alpha-mc  angst  book  contemporary  crime
  • Justified Steel by M.J. Fields

    Justified Steel by M.J. Fields

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When offered the keys to the kingdom, I all but pissed on the throne.I didn’t need the figurative crown to become the king, and I sure as hell didn’t want anything more to do with the little queen.When the power started to shift and lives were being torn apart, justice needed to be served...
  • War, Unfinished by Veronica Lancet

    War, Unfinished by Veronica Lancet

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    This is a pitch black villain romance with irredeemable characters. Please check triggers before reading New York City. Vicious Battlefield. Home. With a million dollar bounty on my head, it took me years to step foot in the city again. Now I'm back. And the order of business is rather simple. 1. Destroy my reprobate brother. 2. Take back my stolen legacy. 3. Have a goddamn drink in peace...
    Categorized as:
    age-gap  revenge  steamy  abuse  adult  alpha-mc  amnesia  angst
  • United Reign by Kylie Kent

    United Reign by Kylie Kent

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Dark Mafia RomanceTheoEverything we’ve built is crashing down around me.I’m consumed by the darkness, my blood boiling with the need for revenge.My wife is the only light in my life; she’s the very reason I keep on fighting.They’re coming after me. And worse yet, they’re coming after her.But let them come…I’m waiting. We’re waiting.To send them all back to the hell they crawled out of...
  • Worship by Trilina Pucci

    Worship by Trilina Pucci

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Book Two, in A Sinful Series, brings you an intense, taboo love story, and an even hotter ALPHA. Meet Luca King— broody, powerful and a man who’s never refused. There are only two reasons a man falls to his knees: prayer and ..... And I sure as hell don’t pray. But for this woman, I’d fall on my knees to worship every single, gorgeous part of her body...
  • Beyond the Consequences by Aleatha Romig

    Beyond the Consequences by Aleatha Romig

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    From New York Times bestselling author Aleatha Romig comes more of the suspenseful romantic thriller about secrets and deception, passion and love, choices and consequences. Secrets and deception As the pieces of their puzzle come together, Anthony and Claire Rawlings continue to defy the odds. Together they overcame an incomprehensible beginning. Apart they endured unimaginable heartache...
  • Come Back by J.A. Huss

    Come Back by J.A. Huss

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Dirty, Dark, and Deadly, #2This is a SERIES. This is BOOK TWO.“Secrets keep the darkness alive,” Harper tells me. But that’s not how I see it at all. Secrets keep me alive. The truth is overrated. Honesty is never the best policy. And everything you know absolutely can hurt you.The contracts I fulfill are just agreements. Death is a business deal. Secrets are currency in my world...
  • Glitterland by Alexis Hall

    Glitterland by Alexis Hall

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    The universe is a glitterball I hold in the palm of my hand. Once the golden boy of the English literary scene, now a clinically depressed writer of pulp crime fiction, Ash Winters has given up on love, hope, happiness, and — most of all — himself. He lives his life between the cycles of his illness, haunted by the ghosts of other people’s expectations...
  • Stay with Me by Nicole Fiorina

    Stay with Me by Nicole Fiorina

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    In a desperate final attempt to save nineteen-year-old Mia from herself, she gets transferred to Dolor University, a reformatory college in the UK that housed deranged and dangerous young adults who viewed the private institution as their own personal playground. Mia didn’t care. She needed feelings to care...
  • Black Light: Brave by Maren Smith

    Black Light: Brave by Maren Smith

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    It started with Piggy. It escalated with Kitty. It ends with Puppy.  For almost a year, Ethen O’Dowell has been locked behind bars and yet Puppy is far from free. A legal ward of her parents, she shares her bedroom with Pony, the only part of her old, submissive life that she has left... apart from the guilt, the fear, and the weekly punishments Ethen dishes out every time they visit him...
  • Marked Steel by M.J. Fields

    Marked Steel by M.J. Fields

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    TrisWhen a spring flower blooms too early, it often wilts while others blossom during their proper season.That’s me in a nutshell, and what eventually landed me in the nuthouse. Through necessity, I found a new passion, one that helps mask the darkness by thrusting me into the spotlight. Each show is a session, ending in a kiss meant for revenge...
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    age-gap  steamy  adult  alpha-mc  angst  book  contemporary  dark
  • Wanted by Maren Smith

    Wanted by Maren Smith

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    He had her the longest… he hurt her the most… Anna “Pony” Mitchell should be dead. Abandoned by her Menagerie sisters and shot by the only man she’s ever loved, now the hospital has declared her “unfit.” She has thirty days to prove them wrong or spend the rest of her life hospitalized. He lost his leg, his job… and almost his life...
    Categorized as:
    steamy  adult  book  contemporary  crime  dark  fiction  psychological
  • Ruthless by Dani René

    Ruthless by Dani René

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I’m an asshole. And I make no apologies for it. My life has been spent drenched in the blood of my enemies. Our family legacy, left only to me when my brother walked away. Women are pawns in a game for pleasure. Nothing more. Until her. Madison Parker. I’m enthralled. Captivated. But my past is far too dark. Pushing her away is my only option...
    Categorized as:
    age-gap  revenge  steamy  adult  alpha-mc  book  cheating  contemporary
  • Lesson In Trust: Part One by Kay Elle Parker

    Lesson In Trust: Part One by Kay Elle Parker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    It takes a strong man to share the love of his life...One night of kinky bliss at Black Light leads Evander Ledston to the woman of his dreams. He has everything he's ever a job that satisfies, a bank account that doesn't complain, and now, a sweet and wonderfully submissive woman who doesn't know the power she holds over him...
  • Learn for Me by Kay Elle Parker

    Learn for Me by Kay Elle Parker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    One day she was there; the next she was gone.Zeke mourned the loss of his blue-haired angel, missed the sound of her voice and the touch of her hand on his. She'd been there while his broken body tried to heal, had soothed him when the pain was consuming, bewitched him with her laugh and ever-present smile.Nothing could happen between them, he'd known that from the start...
  • Lesson In Trust: Part Two by Kay Elle Parker

    Lesson In Trust: Part Two by Kay Elle Parker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Is this a fairytale or is it reality?From one strength to another, Callie’s relationship with her Daddies is growing exponentially. Not only has she found the kind of love she’s always dreamed of, it seems that love is contagious, connecting both Elias and Evander together as well.Balanced between her Dark Daddy and her Golden one, she finds peace in their embrace, safety in their kisses...
  • Breakdown by Jack L. Pyke

    Breakdown by Jack L. Pyke

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    “Who’s been whispering to you, Jack?” ~ Doctor Halliday Jack Harrison has the evidence there in his hands—the DVD and notepad off D.C. Sanders that proves Gray supposedly played a part in tearing him and Jan brutally apart...
    Categorized as:
    age-gap  steamy  abuse  adult  angst  audiobook  book  contemporary
  • To Save Sir by Laylah Roberts

    To Save Sir by Laylah Roberts

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    What would you do to save the person you loved? Would you die for them? Would you kill for them? She just wanted to make the world a better place... All Jenna wanted was to help people. That’s why she went to medical school. Why she joined Doctors Without Borders. She knew she could make a difference ...until the day her world is ripped apart...
    Categorized as:
    steamy  adult  book  contemporary  crime  fiction  humor  psychological
  • Ruin by Taylor Rose, Kenya Wright

    Ruin by Taylor Rose, Kenya Wright

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    READER DISCRETION IS ADVISED:This is a twisted ride. Dark psychological themes, dubious situations, and intense sexual circumstances layer this story and may be triggering or offensive to some.CAINPhoenix is sinfully beautiful, but she stole from me.And, she didn’t know that I was a monster.Now she’s mine. Mine to break. Mine to cut. Mine to bleed.PHOENIXCain is my torturer. A gorgeous psychopath...
    Categorized as:
    steamy  revenge  romance  dark  audiobook  captivity  kidnapping  crime
  • Primal Pursuit: A Dark Enemies to Lovers Romance by Bella J.

    Primal Pursuit: A Dark Enemies to Lovers Romance by Bella J.

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Davian Stark is beautiful, twisted, cruel.And he’s going to die.By my hand.He’s one of the Elites of the Dark Sovereign.A bloodthirsty Mafia Assassin.And a hunter fueled by his need for the chase.If I want to get close to him, I have to give him something to hunt.Me.He made a mistake by letting me survive my family’s massacre. I've trained, fed my hate, and now, I'm ready to strike...
  • Secret Obsession by D.M. Mortier

    Secret Obsession by D.M. Mortier

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Colonel Colton James Ragnarson III should have known better. He wanted nothing more than to enjoy his retirement after his intensely active combat years in the US Army, take care of his family, and find the mystery woman who had made him personalized weapons...
  • Reviving Izabel by J.A. Redmerski

    Reviving Izabel by J.A. Redmerski

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Determined to live a dark life in the company of the assassin who freed her from bondage, Sarai sets out on her own to settle a score with an evil sadist. Unskilled and untrained in the art of killing, the events that unfold leave her hanging precariously on the edge of death when nothing goes as planned...
  • Green Light by Jescie Hall

    Green Light by Jescie Hall

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    From Amazon's bestselling author Jescie Hall comes a new dark college romance about one man's online obsession with his new stepsister.K1ngK0br@: I fell for your lies, and you sucked me into your twisted game. You made me crave your taste, hungered for your full attention. I gave you everything, only for you to go ghost. You hollowed my heart, sending me into a spiral of self-destruction...
  • Indulge by E.B. Walters

    Indulge by E.B. Walters

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The sexy, emotional conclusion to the Bestseller Impulse: Infinitus Billionaire... His world is filled with decadent pleasure and luxury. And Lex Fitzgerald wants to give it all to Jillian Finnegan, the stuntwoman he meant to use to close a business deal, until their intense sexual chemistry translated into delicious, naughty, and mind-numbing passion...
  • XV: by Lana Sky

    XV: by Lana Sky

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    WHEN HATE BECOMES OBSESSION… Mistaken for her beautiful half-sister, Ellen Winthorp is taken captive by a madman who declares that she will be his "fifteen": the fifteenth victim of a vicious mafia blood feud. Armed with only her instincts, Ellen must resist her captor for as long as she can—which is easier said than done the more she's exposed to the complex man beneath the beast...
    Categorized as:
    age-gap  revenge  steamy  abuse  adult  alpha-mc  anti-hero  audiobook
  • Bells by K.G. Reuss

    Bells by K.G. Reuss

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Before I found a love I was willing to die for, I had to survive one I had to kill for.Chapel Crest wasn’t a place of solace. It was made for suffering.I would know.I’d been locked inside ever since my mother tossed me away like I didn't matter.In my suffering though, I found her.Isabella.The girl who made me believe I mattered.The girl I gave everything to.The girl I loved...
  • Wishing Well by Lily White

    Wishing Well by Lily White

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    The perfect timing of a fairy tale is tied to its tragedy…Journalist, Meadow Graham, is invited to interview death row inmate, Vincent Mercier. Given three days to hear his sordid confession, Meadow seeks to learn why a wealthy hotel owner killed four people, including her twin sister...
  • I Am Grey by Jane Washington

    I Am Grey by Jane Washington

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    “Me and you. It’ll never happen. Not today, not tomorrow, not five years from now. Not when some idiot breaks your heart, or when you realise what your little sundresses do to everyone. Not when you’re thirty, not when you’re fifty. I’m going to push your limits, break you down, make you cry, and in the end … I’ll save you...
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