β
God,' he said, 'I have to have you.'
'Take me. Own me. Use me. Pick a verb. Just please.'
'Fuck you. I'm going to fuck you. That's my verb.
β
β
C.D. Reiss (Resist (Songs of Submission, #6))
β
I want to be your last. I want to ruin you for other men.
β
β
C.D. Reiss (Submit (Songs of Submission, #3))
β
Was there anyone before you?
You might have thought so at the the time.
I feel like no one's ever loved me before.
I'm sure they did their best, but you always belonged to me.
β
β
C.D. Reiss (Resist (Songs of Submission, #6))
β
If you have never seen beauty in a moment of suffering, you have never seen beauty at all.
β
β
C.D. Reiss (Tease (Songs of Submission, #2))
β
What if you die from loving me?β
βWhat if I die from not loving you?
β
β
C.D. Reiss (Spin (Songs of Corruption, #1))
β
What we have isnβt something we made. Itβs something that existed before we even met.
β
β
C.D. Reiss (Burn (Songs of Submission, #5))
β
The truth is that I love you. The rest is unnecessary complication.
β
β
C.D. Reiss (Resist (Songs of Submission, #6))
β
The minute I told you to spread your legs and you did it, you were mine. When I told you to beg for it and you did, you were mine. When you put your hands behind your back without being told, I owned you.
β
β
C.D. Reiss (Submit (Songs of Submission, #3))
β
You are the sun I revolve around, the stars that mark me, the moon rising through me. Iβm lost without you. If you wonβt have me, Iβll break, I swear to God. I know itβs selfish, and Iβm sorry. Let me serve you. Have me as yours. Let me live under you.
β
β
C.D. Reiss (Sing (Songs of Submission, #7))
β
This is us together. I own it. This body is my plaything. Your ache is mine. Your orgasm is mine. Your hunger is mine. Your dirty thoughts are mine.
β
β
C.D. Reiss (Control (Songs of Submission, #4))
β
When this ice cube melts, Iβm going to make love to you so slow, everyone in this hotel is going to know my name. It wonβt be play. Itβs going to be dead serious.
β
β
C.D. Reiss (Burn (Songs of Submission, #5))
β
Even in love you need pain
β
β
C.D. Reiss (Monica (Songs of Submission, #7.5; Songs of Dominance, #4))
β
Itβs all I want. We are bound. I canβt be unfaithful to you any more than the sky can be unfaithful to the sea.
β
β
C.D. Reiss (Resist (Songs of Submission, #6))
β
I want you to understand something. That man? Heβs not some boyfriend in a line of them. He is my alpha and omega. He is the sky over me. Without him, Iβm lost. Thereβs no one else, no one whose soul balances mine the way his does. Iβve waited my life for him, and when he came, I didnβt recognize him. Not until recently. If I lose him, I swear, as God is my witness, I will be alone. No man can match him.
β
β
C.D. Reiss (Sing (Songs of Submission, #7))
β
When do we start?β
βGive me a minute to change from vanilla guy to kinky guy.
β
β
C.D. Reiss (Burn (Songs of Submission, #5))
β
Today, you are the goddess my universe revolves around.
β
β
C.D. Reiss (Submit (Songs of Submission, #3))
β
Youβve been a bitch, goddess. Thatβs over. From now on, you step when I say walk. You eat when I feed you. You come when I allow it. If I so much as look at your knees, you get on them and open your fucking mouth.
β
β
C.D. Reiss (Monica (Songs of Submission, #7.5; Songs of Dominance, #4))
β
I feel like no oneβs ever loved me before.β
βIβm sure they did their best, but you always belonged to me.
β
β
C.D. Reiss (Resist (Songs of Submission, #6))
β
You forgot to cross off anal sex.β
βI tried it once. Didnβt like it. If youβre better at it, Iβll have another crack.β I paused. βNo pun intended.
β
β
C.D. Reiss (Submit (Songs of Submission, #3))
β
Iβm yours. My pleasure is yours. My wet pussy is yours. You own me, Jonathan. You are the master of my fuck.
β
β
C.D. Reiss (Control (Songs of Submission, #4))
β
My lips on your body trace the story of my love.
β
β
C.D. Reiss (Sing (Songs of Submission, #7))
β
I canβt fuck a commitment out of you. Thatβll be worthless. I have to have your heart, Monica. The real thing. Without fear.
β
β
C.D. Reiss (Burn (Songs of Submission, #5))
β
He looked as if he wanted to tear me open and crawl inside me. And I wanted him to. Fuck me. Fuck my identity. Fuck my own skin and soul.
β
β
C.D. Reiss (HardBall)
β
I understand words like no and stop. Outside of those, your body is my playground.
β
β
C.D. Reiss (Tease (Songs of Submission, #2))
β
Youβre mine. Your orgasms are mine. Your pleasure is mine to give.
β
β
C.D. Reiss (Submit (Songs of Submission, #3))
β
I want you all to myself. I want to know what they didnβt do so I can do it. So I can keep you longer.
β
β
C.D. Reiss (Tease (Songs of Submission, #2))
β
An honorable man would have given her up before she fell in love, choosing a small hurt over a bigger one later. But I wasnβt that honorable. I wanted her more than Iβd wanted anything in a long time, and I would have her until she couldnβt bear it any longer.
β
β
C.D. Reiss (Control (Songs of Submission, #4))
β
Iβve never heard of a man trying to sandwich another woman between fingering me and fucking me in the same day.
β
β
C.D. Reiss (Beg Tease Submit (Songs of Submission, #1-3))
β
I kissed him like I kissed him every time since he fell into my armsβ like it might be the last.
β
β
C.D. Reiss (Sing (Songs of Submission, #7))
β
Give me a number between one and ten.β
βTwo.β
βForget that, then. Between five and ten.β
βSeven.β
βThatβs how many times youβre coming before sunrise...
β
β
C.D. Reiss (Resist (Songs of Submission, #6))
β
Baby,β I said, smiling until I felt my face might snap in two, βIβm a sure thing tonight.
β
β
C.D. Reiss (Control (Songs of Submission, #4))
β
Iβll break you with my love and put you back together.
β
β
C.D. Reiss (Spin (Songs of Corruption, #1))
β
I feel your hands on your phone when you read my texts. I
go to the Stock after your shifts just to stand where youβve stood. I fall asleep on the pillow you used
when you were in my bed. I need to share whatever piece of the world youβre in. Tell me you donβt
feel the same.
β
β
C.D. Reiss (Burn (Songs of Submission, #5))
β
She could rule the world. She already ruled me.
β
β
C.D. Reiss (Ruin (Songs of Corruption, #2))
β
Love is an ever-fixed mark. Be my ever-fixed mark. Be my north star.
β
β
C.D. Reiss (HardBall)
β
You're both the best and worst submissive I've never met." "And you're the only dominant I've ever met." "I want to be your last. I want to ruin you for other men." "Better get cracking then, Drazen." "Sir." "Drazen, sir." He smirked.
β
β
C.D. Reiss (Submit (Songs of Submission, #3))
β
Look at me, kitten.β I did and felt safe. Deacon wouldnβt let anything happen to me. βWho do you see?β he asked. βMy master.β βI have you, darling.β He gripped my chin tightly. βI have you.
β
β
C.D. Reiss (Use (Forbidden #2))
β
Make no mistake, I will hurt you to protect you.
β
β
C.D. Reiss (Spin (Songs of Corruption, #1))
β
Don't put me in a position where I have to defend myself against this again.
β
β
C.D. Reiss (Spin (Songs of Corruption, #1))
β
I tried to stay away,β he said. βIβve never wanted a woman this much in my life. Iβd burn cities to have you. Iβd fight armies. Iβd commit murder to take you right now.
β
β
C.D. Reiss (Spin (Song of Corruption, #1))
β
Bend over the sink. Iβm going to show you who owns what around here.
β
β
C.D. Reiss (Breathe (Submission, #3.5; Songs of Submission, #9.5))
β
...Tomorrow I'm going to destroy you. I'm going to mark your body and ruin your mind. By noon, you won't know whether to laugh or cry. But tonight? Tonight I will revere you. I will build an altar of myself. I will frame you in stars.
β
β
C.D. Reiss (Sing (Songs of Submission, #7))
β
You turned my existence into a life.
β
β
C.D. Reiss (Beg Tease Submit (Songs of Submission, #1-3))
β
I want a life with you, because you accept me. All of me. I am whole with you. Only you.
β
β
C.D. Reiss (Rule (Corruption, #3))
β
The first time I saw her, I had to hold my breath. The first time she spoke, I exhaled.
β
β
C.D. Reiss (Marriage Games (The Games Duet, #1))
β
Scars are the proof we lived.
β
β
C.D. Reiss (Ruin (Songs of Corruption, #2))
β
Where did you learn to do that?β
βLos Angeles High School of Performing Arts,β I said. βThey taught me how to open my throat to sing. Then Kevin Wainwright taught me how to put his dick down it.β
He laughed. βIβd like to thank LA Unified and Kevin Whatever for this moment.
β
β
C.D. Reiss (Beg Tease Submit (Songs of Submission, #1-3))
β
Iβd been dominant because I knew myself, and in knowing myself, I had the confidence to bind and hit and hurt, because Iβd know when to stop.
β
β
C.D. Reiss (Monica (Songs of Submission, #7.5; Songs of Dominance, #4))
β
He'd woken me from a dreamless sleep, and I couldn't roll over and close my eyes, because in my wakefulness, I'd started dreaming.
β
β
C.D. Reiss (Beg Tease Submit (Songs of Submission, #1-3))
β
I thought of Dante. His hells were the excess of our desires and, in the deepest circles, the pain of our victims.
β
β
C.D. Reiss (Sing (Songs of Submission, #7))
β
My name is Monica, and I am not submissive. I stand six feet tall in heels. I am descended from one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. I can sing like an angel, and growl like a lion. I am not owned. I am music.
β
β
C.D. Reiss (Submit (Songs of Submission, #3))
β
Every day,β he whispered, βIβll take you like this. In the morning, before coffee, I fuck you. At night, I fuck you harder. In our bedroom, our living room, our kitchen, Iβll love you in every room. Amore mio, Iβll break you with my love and put you back together. And when I retire, you still call me Capo because youβre mine. Always mine.
β
β
C.D. Reiss (Spin (Song of Corruption, #1))
β
I'm human, It's a terminal condition
β
β
C.D. Reiss (Burn (Songs of Submission, #5))
β
You dress for the world, but under that, you dress for me. I own your softest places, and what touches them is mine.
β
β
C.D. Reiss (Sing (Songs of Submission, #7))
β
Love is an ever-fixed mark.ββ βBe my ever-fixed mark. Be my north star.
β
β
C.D. Reiss (HardBall)
β
That all you got?β ββThe very instant that I saw you, did my heart fly to your service.
β
β
C.D. Reiss (HardBall)
β
That smell mixed with the scent of getting tied up and fucked became the smell of complete release, of an orchestra connected by the simple movements of a skilled conductor.
β
β
C.D. Reiss (Control (Songs of Submission, #4))
β
Being under him, trapped, objectified, I lost all fear. With Jonathan, I felt safe. I felt a loss of control so complete, a surrender so honest that it became a luxurious indulgence.
β
β
C.D. Reiss (Control (Songs of Submission, #4))
β
We arenβt some casual fuck, and we never were. Not from the first night. Not from the first time I laid eyes on you. You were built for me. I denied it as long as I could, but we were meant to be together. You are the sea under my sky. Weβre bound at the horizon.
β
β
C.D. Reiss (Control (Songs of Submission, #4))
β
What is your type?"
I shrugged. "Non-existent.
β
β
C.D. Reiss (Beg (Songs of Submission, #1))
β
I donβt know what this will make you think of me,β I said.
βThat any man whoβs with you better pay attention, or theyβll find you gone.
β
β
C.D. Reiss (Tease (Songs of Submission, #2))
β
I didn't like jewelry that much anyway
β
β
C.D. Reiss (Beg (Songs of Submission, #1))
β
My sexual arousal had always been tightly tethered to love, romance, the promise of something more. A future.
β
β
C.D. Reiss (HardBall)
β
Stay still. Stay naked. Speak your mind.
β
β
C.D. Reiss (Coda (Songs of Submission, #9))
β
Oh, fucking fuckery,
β
β
C.D. Reiss (Burn (Songs of Submission, #5))
β
I have the only right. Iβll hurt anyone who touches whatβs mine.
β
β
C.D. Reiss (Spin (Songs of Corruption, #1))
β
I am afraid I wonβt have you, and Iβm afraid I will.
β
β
C.D. Reiss (Spin (Songs of Corruption, #1))
β
We werenβt going to last, not as a couple. Not as lovers or sinners. She loved me. I owned her.
β
β
C.D. Reiss (Ruin (Songs of Corruption, #2))
β
Were you feeling all right?"
"No, not at all."
"Bellyache?"
"Yeah, a two-month bellyache called Vivian-itis. Symptoms include desperate longing and inability to do anything but feel like a douchebag. Patient can't do shit on the field but stand there like an ass, wondering what the fuck he's doing with his life. It's chronic. No known cure.
β
β
C.D. Reiss (HardBall)
β
Iβll call him for you.β
βIβm not about to suck your dick so youβll make a call for me.β
βAnd Iβm not making the call so youβll suck my dick. So, now that weβve cleared that up, can you get on with it?
β
β
C.D. Reiss (Beg Tease Submit (Songs of Submission, #1-3))
β
He opened a jack-in-the-box of sexuality by turning a handle I didnβt even know I had.
β
β
C.D. Reiss (Tease (Songs of Submission, #2))
β
My job there was to enjoy him, and sense sooner rather than later when it was time to move on. That was the only way I would get out intact.
β
β
C.D. Reiss (Tease (Songs of Submission, #2))
β
I wanted to feel good, if only for a minute, and to forget everything for as long as it took us to be bind together and fall apart. I hadn't earned it, but I wanted it.
β
β
C.D. Reiss (Submit (Songs of Submission, #3))
β
I watched him put his fingers to his lips and blow me a kiss before shaking his hand as if I was too hot to handle.
β
β
C.D. Reiss (HardBall)
β
I love my wife. My ex-wife. Nothing will ever change that.β βOkay.β βI canβt love anyone else.
β
β
C.D. Reiss (Tease (Songs of Submission, #2))
β
I needed to love you more than I wanted to dominate you. Donβt doubt for a second that I chose to love you.
β
β
C.D. Reiss (Marriage Games (The Games Duet, #1))
β
Her sexuality wasn't coy or cute. She wasn't saucy; she was feral. Her very presence on the earth stirred me.
β
β
C.D. Reiss (Control (Songs of Submission, #4))
β
I wanted to fuck the arrogance right out of her, rip away the coating of innocence and take her to the dirty, sex core again.
β
β
C.D. Reiss (Ruin (Songs of Corruption, #2))
β
Antonio, the catalyst of my dissolution, the destroyer of my façade.
β
β
C.D. Reiss (Ruin (Songs of Corruption, #2))
β
I had to have her, and I did. She got on her knees when I told her to. She slipped easily into play and out again, becoming her witty, intelligent self seamlessly. She wasn't intimidated by me. She teased and challenged me. She kissed like she meant it, and from the very first night, she enjoyed fucking without reservation or shame. Monica was, in a word, perfect.
β
β
C.D. Reiss (Control (Songs of Submission, #4))
β
I didnβt need one so pissed at his ex-wife heβd make me fall in love with him before apologizing for leading me on. He wanted to hurt women, and nothing froze my creative juices like heartache.
β
β
C.D. Reiss (Beg (Songs of Submission, #1))
β
β¦and believed him despite my better judgment. I forgave him despite my misgivings. I loved him just because I did.
β
β
C.D. Reiss (Resist (Songs of Submission, #6))
β
β¦the only way to do that was to make the trouble she was causing seem unimportant. It was a good strategy, and I was failing at it.
β
β
C.D. Reiss (Resist (Songs of Submission, #6))
β
Yes, I missed his dick and all our play, but it was the loss of his stare, the warmth of his attention, and the emotional safety of his sphere of influence made me feel unmoored.
β
β
C.D. Reiss (Burn (Songs of Submission, #5))
β
I knew in every cough and sob, every hitched breath and chest spasm, that heβd hold me together. Whatever fell apart, heβd put right.
β
β
C.D. Reiss (Submit (Songs of Submission, #3))
β
I was many things. I was submissive. I was masochistic. I was trusting. I was a sexual slave. But obedient? Not as much.
β
β
C.D. Reiss (Resist (Songs of Submission, #6))
β
Itβs wrong to want to protect you? To keep you above my shit? A goddess?
β
β
C.D. Reiss (Resist (Songs of Submission, #6))
β
Why do you want to know?β he asked.
βI hate secrets.β
βI have secrets I may never tell you.
β
β
C.D. Reiss (Submit (Songs of Submission, #3))
β
You've been a bitch, goddess. That's over. From now on, you step when I say walk. You eat when I feed you...
β
β
C.D. Reiss (Monica (Songs of Submission, #7.5; Songs of Dominance, #4))
β
What mattered was the evolution of a relationship.
β
β
C.D. Reiss (HardBall)
β
There was nothing more offensive than a man blessed with looks where he should have been given courtesy.
β
β
C.D. Reiss (HardBall)
β
Jonathan Drazen," I said, squeezing his hand. "You're a manipulative bastard, a brazen liar, and a sadist. You've brought me to my knees. You've dominated me. You've told me who I am and then challenged me to be it. If you made me strong enough to stand up to the world, let me stand by you. If you completed the woman I am, let me be that woman in your honor. Every part of my body is dedicated to you. Every note I sing. Every breath in my lungs. My pleasure and pain. Take me. Let me serve you. Let me be yours.
β
β
C.D. Reiss (Sing (Songs of Submission, #7))
β
Our connection didnβt have the bandwidth to sustain the pain buried far enough in our past to cause the grind of our present. His past belonged to her, even though sheβd cut the line, taking it with her, tugging at him, leaving no one else for him to give it to.
β
β
C.D. Reiss (Tease (Songs of Submission, #2))
β
I couldnβt let myself depend on him getting me all hot and bothered so I could sing to the throb between my legs. I had no idea how much longer heβd drag me around by the panties, but it surely wouldnβt be long enough to make a career.
β
β
C.D. Reiss (Tease (Songs of Submission, #2))
β
You turned on?" He asked. "Yes." "If I do anything that changes that, you let me know." I nodded. "I didn't hear that." "Yes." "Yes what?" At once, I rebelled against the suggestion that I call him by an honorary, but at the same time, I wanted desperately to complete the act of surrender. "Yes, sir." "You just gave me a little palpitation." "I am at your service.
β
β
C.D. Reiss (Submit (Songs of Submission, #3))
β
Goddess,β he said, his breath on my mouth, βhave me, please. I was wrong. Youβre not the sea under my sky. You are the sun I revolve around, the stars that mark me, the moon rising through me. Iβm lost without you. If you wonβt have me, Iβll break, I swear to God. I know itβs selfish, and Iβm sorry. Let me serve you. Have me as yours. Let me live under you.
β
β
C.D. Reiss (Sing (Songs of Submission, #7))
β
You are my life. It doesnβt matter what I am, or what Iβve done, as long as youβre mine. Nothing in the past matters. There is you, and nothing else.β He didnβt look at me but kept his eyes on his work. A cluster of taller buildings appeared ahead, and he headed for them. βMy one job,β he said, holding up a finger, βis to make sure you know how to protect yourself when they finally kill me.
β
β
C.D. Reiss (Rule (Corruption, #3))
β
I want to say," he said as he placed my right wrist and right knee together, "If you say stop, it's good enough for me, but we might want to set a safeword." He spread my legs to get the right length under my back and tired my right side together, letting the rest of the loop drop off the edge of the bed. "Tangerine," I said. "Tangerine?" "I doubt you can keep doing whatever it is you're doing if I saw tangerine." "Fine, wiseass.
β
β
C.D. Reiss (Submit (Songs of Submission, #3))
β
For fuck's sake, I'd killed my best friend, first with carelessness and then with ambition. I started texting back: - you have the wrong.... But then i felt his lips on my shoulder and his warm breath on my skin, and my sorrow dropped out of me. I couldn't finish. My chest hitched and heaved, and the tears came so hard I couldn't breathe. His arms held me tight from behind, and his voice twisted itself into little nothings of comfort. I went into a timeless blackness where I let everything spill out, because he'd catch it. I knew in every couch and sob, ever hitched breath and chest spasm, that he'd hold me together. Whatever fell apart, he'd put right. I couldn't curse him for not being everything I needed or failing to commit to me completely. I didn't have space to reject his idea that I was submissive or the will to deny him control over me. He was there, and he was exactly what I needed.
β
β
C.D. Reiss (Submit (Songs of Submission, #3))
β
I hurled myself under the covers, naked and half wet, grabbing my phone on the way. - don't come nevermind - I heard a phone dine from the living room and, soon after, a voice so close it shocked me. "Too late," Jonathan said. "Your front door was open." -go away - a blast of cold air hit me as the covers were moved, and in the next breath, I caught his new scent. He pulled the covers over us just as his phone dinged. He pressed his front to my back, spooning me, this clothes taking on the dampness I hadn't gotten around to toweling off. "I'm sorry Monica. He put his face in my wet hair and draped his arm around me. "Ah. What's this text I have here? It says go away." I sniffled. He slid his arm under my neck and held the phone in front of our faces with both hands. His breath tickled my ear. "Let me text back. Hang on." -I'd rather be here for you - I waited for it to appear on my phone. He nuzzled into the hair pooling at the back of my neck as i typed back. - And then what? - His fingers flew across the glass. - And let's talk about the rest later. Today, you are the goddess my universe revolves around. -
β
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C.D. Reiss (Submit (Songs of Submission, #3))