Alec Nightfall | Dark Romance

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I write brooding, emotionally charged contemporary romances set in glittering cities and sun‑drenched coastal escapes, where midnight confessions change everything.... Dark Romance written for her. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GHXJ4D1V

Quote card from Cold Water by Alec Nightfall: I want to put my hands on you and take my time and I want to hear the sounds you make.
Quote card from Hold Fast by Alec Nightfall: The house, the number, the island — the front that comes over the horizon before I do.
Quote card from Midnight Vows by Alec Nightfall: "Anything good," you said quietly. We stood there for a moment, and I wanted to ask, but I also understood that some things cannot be asked for — they have to be offered.
Quote card from In Name Only by Alec Nightfall: I have since learned you decided in one, and made me wait two extra on principle, and I want it noted that I have negotiated with sovereign wealth funds who were kinder to me.
Quote card from Cold Water by Alec Nightfall: The wire is rusted through." I had known about the wire for three summers and not fixed it.
Quote card from Midnight Vows by Alec Nightfall: "I want you." Something in me that had been held at controlled tension for longer than I could accurately account for simply let go.
Quote card from Hold Fast by Alec Nightfall: That I wanted the ink and the humming and the crooked half of your smile and the sound you make when you arrive somewhere.
Quote card from In Name Only by Alec Nightfall: You knew the guests' names two generations deep — you asked the German gentleman in 208 about his late wife's roses, and he held your hand at the front desk for a full minute and you let him.
Quote card from Midnight Vows by Alec Nightfall: Names, characters, places, and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
Quote card from Cold Water by Alec Nightfall: You looked at me the way you might look at a weather pattern that had arrived unexpectedly — with interest, with attention, but without the particular contraction of the self that fear requires.
Quote card from Midnight Vows by Alec Nightfall: I have stood in the path of real storms. I understand the calculus of risk. I understand what it means to stand before something dangerous and choose to look at it clearly rather than look away.
Quote card from Hold Fast by Alec Nightfall: Chapter 5 – Safe Harbor I have negotiated on four continents. I have kept my voice level while numbers with nine zeros moved across tables.
Quote card from Hold Fast by Alec Nightfall: That you had decided, and were enjoying the deciding. That the woman who almost caught her laughs had stopped catching them around me.
Quote card from Midnight Vows by Alec Nightfall: I had simply been unable to stay away from the same physical space you occupied.
Quote card from Midnight Vows by Alec Nightfall: And I have not, until recently, been still." "What changed?" I looked at you. "You were standing in the rain." The space between us was not large.
Quote card from Hold Fast by Alec Nightfall: What I wanted to show you is that I can't stop looking at the wrong thing." You turned.
Quote card from Midnight Vows by Alec Nightfall: "The view of the sea from there is — there is nothing between the windows and the water.
Quote card from Hold Fast by Alec Nightfall: You stood with your fingertips against the cold glass — fingertips first, always — and then you said, quietly, "This is where you actually live.
Quote card from Cold Water by Alec Nightfall: Thought about what your hand would feel like under mine. Thought about the sound you would make.
Quote card from Cold Water by Alec Nightfall: It was the heartbeat of a man who has been wanting something specific for six days and is standing four inches from it.
Quote card from In Name Only by Alec Nightfall: I learned the pencil behind your ear is your mother's — she kept books for the fish market — and you sharpen it but will not replace it.
Quote card from In Name Only by Alec Nightfall: The staff read you years ago — why do you think half of them cried at a paper wedding?
Quote card from Cold Water by Alec Nightfall: I have never been someone who pressed. I wanted, with an intensity that was becoming difficult to contain, to correct the information.
Quote card from In Name Only by Alec Nightfall: Let me establish who I was that morning, because he's the man this story happens to, and by the end you won't be able to find him.
Quote card from Cold Water by Alec Nightfall: "He was someone who needed me smaller. He said why do you always have to —" You stopped.
Quote card from Cold Water by Alec Nightfall: "True." We were quiet for a moment. Below you the water was very clear and I was looking at the dock boards.
Quote card from Midnight Vows by Alec Nightfall: This is a thing you said — I learned it that night, and have carried it since — when you wanted to move past the surface of a conversation into the place where the real things live.