Captured

by Lauren Biel

stupid kids grow up to be stupid adults who keep their family secrets by walking in the same footsteps.

I can’t let you go because I’ll lose the parts of me I found inside you.”

“I can’t give you heaven, but I can make hell feel good sometimes.”

“You already own me, and I already have scars. You can’t see them, but they’re there. What’s one more?”

There was no chain around my neck, no reason to comply to his demands, yet I wanted him as badly as he wanted me.

You saved me from my hell, and it’s time for me to repay the favor.

Someone was about to pay for their mistakes, and this time it wouldn’t be me.

“Sorry I don’t know how to do this better. I’m not used to dealing with trauma I didn’t cause.”

I could never forget the things he’d done to me. But I also couldn’t forget the things he’d done for me.

He probably got ripped like that from hauling dead bodies,

Somehow, she’d found freedom within captivity, but I found mine within her.

People will wonder how I could lie with a demon, but demons are only fallen angels, and Alex fell pretty fucking hard. He was just willing to stand up again and live up to his name.