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438 pages, Kindle Edition
First published June 20, 2013
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♪♫Nothing more to give
I can finally come alive
Your life into me
I can finally breathe
Come alive
I lay there in the dark
Open my eyes
You saved me the day that you came alive♪♫
"You are my world. And all I’ve ever wanted is for me to be yours."
“I’ll be the moon when the sun goes down,” I sang to her and only her, “just to let you know that I’ll be around.”
'"Don't let other people tell you how well you know someone," she added. "Don't let other people, no matter who they are, decide what happens to your life and hers. You will live a lifetime of regret if you let others influence your decisions. Believe me."'
You know, a little dark, a little gloomy. And, as always, hey, full of dead people.
- Hades from Hercules (1997) -
Together. It should have made me feel better not to have to go alone. But all I wanted was for both of us to live. With each other. Until we were old and grey.
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I realized it didn’t mean anything without Perry by my side. She was my reason for living. She was the reason I’d come alive in the first place.
"You are my future, you are my everything!
“Fine, you leave me no choice,” I said to no one in particular. I moved into the aisle seat and kept going. I plunked myself down right on the giant ginger’s lap.
“The hell are you doing?” he yelled, trying to get me off of him, but I just pressed myself down into him harder, one leg wedged against the seat in front of me, the other pushing off the aisle seat arm rest.
The passengers in the aisle shot us uncomfortable looks, as if Maximus and I were involved in some lazy, clothed version of the mile high club.
“Dex, get the hell off me,” Maximus grunted in my ear.
“Oh yeah, you like that don’t you, baby,” I said with a grin. I knew his Southern sensibilities were being tested; poor guy couldn’t handle anything even remotely homoerotic.
Dearest Maximus,
I beg your forgiveness for the nasty things I said and thought about you. Well not everything. I mean, what you did to Perry when she was possessed was pretty rotten and douchey. But after Come Alive, I know more about you. I’m sorry for what you’re going through right now. I hope to hear more about how you’re doing in the future. Hint, hint Karina Halle!!!
"I realized it didn't mean anything without Perry by my side. She was my reason for living.l SHE WAS THE REASON I'D COME ALIVE IN THE FIRST PLACE."
"I'm Dex, this is my girlfriend Perry." I looked over at Maximus. "That's Maximus Douchekabob. It's a foreign sounding last name, but her's actually from here."
"I pressed my fingers into her face. "Baby, the first chance I get, I'm going to fuck the shit out of you," I growled.
She smiled coyly, her eyes twinkling. "I think it's called making love now."
"Then I'm going to make love the shit out of you."
"She just looked scared, like a baby deer. A totally fuckable baby deer. Jesus, Dex, i told myself. Get a grip before you start imagining her on Animal Planet."
"I knew I was putting her on the spot. Didn't care. I wasn't too proud to admit that Dex Foray needed cuddles. Just because we were fucking each other didn't mean I'd stop being affectionate."
"But I wasn't the only one who'd come alive. Perry did when she told me she loved me.
She loved me.
She loved me."
“Well, remember when I asked you what you were doing tonight? And you said you were doing me?”
Perry’s eyes widened and she looked at Rebecca in embarrassment.
“Oh, don’t worry about her, she already knows you’re doing me,” I added.
“Dex!” Perry cried out.
Rebecca rolled her eyes. “So much for speaking in code.”
“Hey, we’re all adults here. Except maybe Perry. You are dangerously close to being underage.”
“Dex,” Perry said again, her tone harder.
…
“And you’re one bad dog,” she teased.
“Woof, woof. Give a dog a boner.”
She giggled and smacked my arm. And that’s why I loved this woman. She let me say the stupidest shit, and on occasion, actually found it funny.
“Guys!” Perry yelled, putting her arm out in front of me. “Dex, calm down. You, ginger balls, you shut the fuck up.”
I laughed. “Ginger balls, that’s my girl!”
And Perry, well she was just perfect for me. She had curves, curves that melted into my hands, into my skin, more than other women I’d been with. Her body molded to mine, soft, sensual, nurturing. It sounded archaic, but she just oozed fertility, and with that fertility came a power that she had no idea about. She looked at herself and hated what she saw, and I was going to do my best to show her that she was beyond beautiful to me.
An entire novel in Dex's POV????
YAY!!!!
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“You’re my home, Perry. And I will be yours.”
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"I just thought I should warn you that the second we walk into the apartment, I am going to maul the fuck out of you. I don't care if you're tired or bruised or scratched. You'll just be more so when I'm finished."
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“I want to be with you. Not just as a partner, not just as a friend. I want us to be together, to be one, to be…I don’t know, a fucking couple.”
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“Nice, Dex,” she sneered. “You couldn’t wait to get in her pants, could you? You’re a pig.”
“And you’re the shit this pig used to roll around in.”
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"I love you, I've loved you from the very start. And... sometimes I think I can't possibly love you more. And then I do. (...) I am in love with you, you wonderful, funny handsome man."
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“I realized it didn’t mean anything without Perry by my side. She was my reason for living. She was the reason I’d come alive in the first place.”
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"Perry, I’ve wanted you since the moment I saw you. I’m not going to stop showing you off or rubbing it in to everyone I know, anytime soon (...) You’re mine. And you’re mine alone. From now until the end of time."
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“Baby, I love you, more than ever, more than anything in the fucking world. You are my world. And all I’ve ever wanted is for me to be yours.”
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So fucking horny.
(Don't let this picture fool you. Sasquatch=asshole)
“Baby, I love you, more than ever, more than anything in the fucking world. You are my world. And all I’ve ever wanted is for me to be yours.”
"I just thought I should warn you that the second we walk into the apartment I am going to maul the fuck out of you. I don't care if you're tired or bruised or scratched. You'll just be more so when I'm finished."
(Who know vegetable lasagna was so delicious?)
(Does anyone else notice the resemblance to Jenn?)
(We all know who I am referring to, right?)
What I am most surprised by was my feelings towards Maximus and how they evolved into territories I never imagined. For so long I have agreed with Dex whole-heartedely about Max (ginger balls, anyone?) but now is the time to eat crow. Max is NOT the person I was expecting to have in my good graces. Alas, I was wrong. Yup, I said it.
If I could give you any idea of what to expect with Come Alive it's to expect the unexpected. If you are expecting to cry, well expect that. If you know anything about this series it's that Karina Halle is an evil genius that loves to drink the tears of her fans.
"Now are we ready to hunt some ghosts?" he asked us like the douchiest substitute teacher, trying to sound commanding and relatable at the same time.
"Fuck you," I said.
I still felt like what I had in my hands could slip through my fingers at any moment, and what I thought I might have in the end could turn out to be nothing at all.
You’ll just be missing a little tip.”
“But the tip is the best part,” I groaned.
I pressed my fingers into her face. “Baby, the first chance I get, I’m going to fuck the shit out of you,” I growled. She smiled coyly, her eyes twinkling. “I think it’s called making love now.” “Then I’m fucking making love the shit out of you.”
”Baby,” I managed to say when I held it together long enough, “Baby, I love you, more than ever, more than anything in the fucking world. You are my world. And all I’ve ever wanted is for me to be yours.”
It’s one thing to bring the woman you love back into your life. It’s another to try and keep her there.
Come Alive is told from Dex’s POV.