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Dark & Dangerously good

“I have only ever liked one boy in my life. I have only ever wanted one ma…more
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Dark & Dangerously good

“I have only ever liked one boy in my life. I have only ever wanted one man to have as my own. I have only ever had one dream since I was eight. Styx, the dream is you. You stole my heart fifteen years ago and you still haven’t given it back.”

They met by accident at such a young age a mute boy wearing strange clothes, an outsider the first boy Mae has seen, Styx (River) sees a beautiful, heartbroken girl behind a fence with eyes like a wolf and this is the image they kept of each other until their adult years.

“I am truly happy that I got to see you again. I thought about you often, the boy behind the fence, the boy on the outside… the boy who stole my first and only kiss, and I nightly prayed for your safety and happiness. It is a ritual I will forever keep.”-Mae

This is by no means a lighthearted read, its deep, contains religious cult darkness that will disgust you, contains filthy mouthed MC males, sexual situations and talks of abuse so definitely not for the fainthearted but also brilliantly written.

There's a deep undercurrent to this whole read which is also heartwarming despite all the surrounding darkness and it's a fateful love that runs deep from the first glimpse.

Some reads are just set apart from others and this is one of them.