Captured

by Lauren Biel

Love had never been enough within these walls.

We were heading for the deep end without a life preserver. No one was there to save us, and we were too caught up in each other to save ourselves.

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.”

I wouldn’t be like The Man. I would be the man she saw in me.

“I’m only human for you, O.”

“I know it’s hard to understand,” she said, “and I won’t pretend you didn’t break me, but you’re also the one who put me back together again. Now you’re the glue holding all those pieces in place.”

“I love you, Ophelia, and I refuse to let love hurt you this time.”

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.