“I thought I was better than you.” He felt too much, was tearing himself open with all this, but nine years deserved… — Aleksandr Voinov Copy Share Image
“I’d die for you, Dan. No questions asked.” “No, Vadim. No.” Dan’s dark eyes were unforgivingly intense. “You must not die for… — Aleksandr Voinov Copy Share Image
“Tiger and mountain lion. Fuck you. Fuck you for getting me out. You should have shot me. But you didn't have the… — Aleksandr Voinov Copy Share Image
“Knowing what Dan’s face had looked like in Kabul, the night they’d spent in the hotel room. What he’d said. My light,… — Aleksandr Voinov Copy Share Image
“Never realized how much you might have been hurt, or worried...you know. Others. Until I found out how fucking painful it is… — Aleksandr Voinov Copy Share Image
“Dan didn’t want to say anything, but the words were unstoppable. “I fucking love you. Don’t leave me. You’ve got to find… — Aleksandr Voinov Copy Share Image
“Right now he was nothing but a physically hurt man who had been through hell and back, clinging to his promise. “We… — Aleksandr Voinov Copy Share Image
“Take me on R&R, aye? Back to where we were before, or a similar place. Sea, sky, sun, and sex 24/7. Deal?'...'Make… — Aleksandr Voinov Copy Share Image
“He’d do anything, absolutely everything for this man, suck him, kill, kill himself, run away, be something else, anything else, everything just… — Aleksandr Voinov Copy Share Image
“Pretty is different,' he murmured. 'Pretty has no scars. You are...' jaw muscles tensed again. 'Like the morning sky in Afghanistan. Not… — Aleksandr Voinov Copy Share Image
“One touch from you...,” water coated his lips, gathered in thick drops on his dark lashes, “makes me feel more than a… — Aleksandr Voinov Copy Share Image
“You made me human. I stand by that. You made me into somebody I would have wanted to become, if I'd ever… — Aleksandr Voinov Copy Share Image
“Vadim swallowed, felt his throat too tight to move, then, still staring at the bottle, smelling the desert and Dan, and himself,… — Aleksandr Voinov Copy Share Image
“If I don’t wear anything, I’d probably make the food go off, and the children run away screaming. What with all the… — Aleksandr Voinov Copy Share Image
“Some men want to win a gold medal, some want a family, some want to be rich, some want to be free,… — Aleksandr Voinov Copy Share Image
“Vadim inhaled, but couldn’t form words, struggled with translating soldier concepts into something civilians could understand. Dan moved into the breach. “Violence,… — Marquesate Copy Share Image
“You broke me up there in the mountains. You cracked something in my head, I don’t know. I have never been obsessed… — Aleksandr Voinov Copy Share Image
“Aye, and for now, would you mind if I get you out of your clothes and wrap myself around you? It's medicinal… — Marquesate Copy Share Image
“Dan pulled him in. Anchored him. Secured him, like one mountain climber to the other, rope and irons and nothing but the… — Aleksandr Voinov Copy Share Image
“You….” just you, always you. My russian Cu**, my enemy, my comrade, my prisoner, my gaoler and my life. Words unthinking. “Love……you.” — Aleksandr Voinov Copy Share Image
“I love you more than I can say, than I can even think and what you give me takes my breath away,… — Aleksandr Voinov Copy Share Image
“Your father's impressive.''He's a scary motherfucker, but we get along well.” — Aleksandr Voinov Copy Share Image
“Aye, that’s me. Rough tough squaddie with the intellectual depth of a shallow baby bath and the educational background of a hedgerow.… — Aleksandr Voinov Copy Share Image
