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By Fate I Conquer by Cora Reilly

"Love is for dreamers or weaklings. I’m neither."
"Your father is many things but not a dreamer or weakling."
"I can’t. Someone set off the alarm by entering a wrong code somewhere in the house and by doing so locked all the electronic doors in the house."
"I never thought about kissing someone. But I think with you I could imagine having my first kiss one day."
"I guess with lying it was crucial that you hid the lie behind a part truth."
"You, Nevio and Massimo talk about sex around me all the time."
"I don’t have to tell you that there’s no way in hell you can have her."
"You can have almost any girl, why pick the one you can’t?"
"Maybe we can discredit her. If she slept with someone before we married, I could dump her."
"My life wouldn’t have changed because of marriage. I’d still have fucked around, worked all day and done whatever the fuck I wanted."
"Men in our world are given plenty of leeway, you as a Vitiello even more, but this is too much."
"That’s not going to happen. She wants you for your power, not your pleasant personality."
"You can’t compare your mother to Cressida, and I want to be faithful."
"I belong with the people I love. I don’t fear the dark."
"Stay where you are. You belong in the light."
"I know I shouldn’t say this, but I want to see you again."
"Her beauty and kindness in a building known for its ugly brutality."
"Every time I met her, the pull got stronger."
"Nothing for you to worry about. You are perfectly safe."
"Her brother and father slaughter people as a favorite pastime, and she doesn’t like to hurt animals."
"Do not ask a man like me about right or wrong, Greta. The only thing I can tell you is that nothing has ever felt as right as kissing you."
"You can ask anything of me, Greta, and I’d give it to you."
"Wrong and right are concepts designed by humankind over the centuries to allow peaceful co-existence."
"Before Kiara there was calm and then suddenly there was chaos."
"Our family is everything. Nothing deserves to take its prime spot."
"I won’t leave my family, Amo. I owe them everything and I love them more than anything else. If I have to choose between them and you, it’ll always be them."
"You can have angry fucking or no fucking. It’s up to you."
"What the fuck are we doing here? Why do you insist on this?"
"You showed him mercy by what you did. I would have made his end much more excruciating than what he experienced."
"I don’t know if I wanted to kill him. I wanted to inflict the same pain on him that he’d inflicted on the dog."
"Us being here is a bad idea. You being so trusting in me is the worst idea."
"I thought hearing your voice would help quiet the chaos in my head. It did in the past."
"I’m not sure I need saving. I’m not sure I can be saved."
"I shouldn’t have come. This could be a trap."
"Why do you make me feel like myself and at the same time like someone new."
"Don’t argue. My darkness spilled over. It wasn’t you."
"The desire to tug her against me and hold her close was almost overwhelming."
"I can take care of myself. I can blend in. And this is my city. I know what corners to avoid."
"She exhaled when I pulled back, and just like that she breathed more life into me."
"My father would never allow Mom or Marcella to go anywhere without one of us or a bodyguard."
"I trusted Greta, but still my instincts told me to be cautious on Camorra territory."
"I wanted to be honest with her. I didn’t want to have any secrets from Greta."
"Trust me, if you’re turned on, I’m turned on."
"This moment here was what my parents shared. It was what I’d never hoped to have, and now, with Greta, for a fleeting moment, I experienced it."
"Her direct innocence would be my death one day."
"I’ll taste you whenever you want, just say the word."
"Greta beamed while she watched her animals enjoy themselves. She got joy from their happiness and I from hers."
"There wasn’t us, not really. There was Cressida and me, which existed in the light, though it’s base was rotten and dark, and then there was Greta and me, bound to the shadows, though our bond was pure in a way I hadn’t thought possible."
"I always do the wrong thing so I wouldn’t know. Do you not want to see me again?"
"You’re doing enough good already. Being with me won’t undo the good of your existence."
"This strange place in the middle of nowhere felt more like a home already than the fancy townhouse in my city—all because of the woman in my bed."
"Love’s such a curious thing. No logic, no reason. How do you know if you love someone?"
"I want nothing more than to make you mine, than to bury myself to the hilt inside of you."
"It felt like we knew each other longer than we did, and on a deeper level than should be possible after only a few encounters."
"I love your scent, and the way your body feels against mine. And your smile. Love’s such a curious thing."
"This right here, this sense of calm and belonging, it was something I wanted."
"Eventually this boundary will fall too, as all my good intentions have toppled over, but let me try to be honorable with you for as long as I can."
"Every part of me that matters, my soul, my heart, my love, is yours. It’ll always be yours."
"It was safer than to meet more frequently and to risk someone getting suspicious. It was... hard."
"Christmas was meant to be spent with your loved ones…yet, he was thousands of miles away."
"I’ll come back as soon as I can. Maybe I can somehow free up a night before Christmas. I don’t want to wait longer."
"My life was divided, into my time with Amo and the rest of my life. A life always partly on hold. A life full of lies, deceit and longing."
"You deserve so much better. You deserve to be worshipped like a queen."
"You are a queen in my eyes. My shadow queen."
"Silence settled around us. To make love you had to love."
"I’m gladly your shadow queen. I don’t need the light."
"No matter what happens, we’ll be together. I’m going to face the consequences. Whatever happens will be worth it a thousand times over."
"If you think I should die for loving someone as much as you love Mom, then go ahead and try to kill me, Dad."
"I’ll follow my heart, Dad. You can accept it or not, but the outcome will be the same. Greta will be my wife."
"I’m willing to sacrifice a lot for the Famiglia and this family, Dad. I’ll be a good Capo like you, but have you ever considered that you are a good Capo because Mom has your back?"
"I need Greta by my side to be Capo. I love her. I always admired what you and Mom have, but I never thought I could have it because it’s so fucking rare in our world."
"Blood spill, in time for Christmas. What a jolly message. Born in Blood, Sworn in Blood indeed."
"I’d be in a very dark place and probably a worse Capo than my father had been."
"If you’re leaving Vegas to be with Vitiello you’re saying you don’t give a fuck about me."
"I don’t want to lie anymore. That’s why I told Nevio. But I knew how you’d react when I told you and I was right."
"Dad, I know you’re angry, but please try to understand. I love Amo. It hurts to be apart from him. Please allow me to be with Amo."
"Greta, in the Camorra you are safer than you’ll be anywhere else."
"Some people have many regrets in their last moments, but how could I regret a life that had so much love?"
"The world will burn for you. We’ll burn it down."
"Face your fears was what Dad always said but I was terrified when I looked down my body."
"Don’t kill her on my behalf, okay? I won’t want anyone to die."
"I won’t ever forgive you for making the Falcones family."
"I love her more than anything else in the world, and nothing, absolutely nothing will convince me to have you there."
"I love you so much. It kills me that you had to suffer so much. You have the kindest, biggest heart of anyone I know. You don’t deserve this."
"I’ll be with you every step of the way you have to take to heal."
"I need to be there with you, with my family."
"I’m happy for you and Greta. Now you better make her happy."
"This isn’t the Christmas present I was hoping for."
"You heard my mother. Be good to her or I’ll be very unpleasant."
"I’m sure there are enough people out there who would love to stab him."
"Good to see you. If you ever want to talk about my brother’s annoying nature, or anything else, call me."
"I’m glad my brother finally marries a decent woman."
"They shouldn’t happen to you. I need you to be safe and happy."
"I’m happy most of the time. Sometimes the attack haunts me."
"I really want to cling to my dislike of Amo. But sometimes when I see him looking at you with that sappy adoration I can’t help but tolerate him."
"My grudges of the past don’t have to be yours."
"No matter where I live in the world, a part of my heart will always stay in Vegas with you and the rest of my family."
"Ignore him. The filter between his brain and mouth isn’t working."
"I’m not easily offended. My brother doesn’t have any kind of filter between his brain and mouth."
"Mom would carry the baby in her womb if we used IVF to fertilize my eggs with your sperm."