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They tried to knock you down, but you got up and stood taller. They tried to clip your wings, but they grew back stronger. They thought their threats would silence you, but your courage is deafening.
You can only truly break someone once. Everything after that is just chipping at pieces.
I took out my phone and Googled how long I’d go to jail if I kidnapped her.
“You’re okay.” It was a chant, a mantra, a promise. “I got you. You’re okay.”
Lyla was a walking red flag. She’d given me every reason to run in the opposite direction, but I was stuck in some weird gravitational pull she had on me.
“Because a million different things can be said about you, about anyone. Some may be true, but in my experience, most accounts aren’t. I don’t want to hear anything about you unless it comes from you.”
I wouldn’t just be on the list of people she liked. I’d fucking dominate it.
“Because you don’t give it up freely.” He met my gaze. “But when you do, it’s fucking magical.”
“This has never happened to me before. I don’t know what the fuck to do. I don’t even know how you feel. I just know I never want to feel the way I did when I saw him with you again.”
“God damn, Lyla James.”
“Look at me when I fuck you.”
“Because the world would be empty without you,” he said. “Because we wouldn’t have met, and my soul would be lost for the rest of my life, searching for yours.”
The previous birthdays we’ve celebrated here consisted of me fake smiling, going home early, and listening to Adele on full blast while drinking wine and bawling in my living room. 10/10 do not recommend feelings.
Delilah Duke Guzman. I shake my head and smile again. I can’t remember the last time I genuinely smiled. Delilah Duke Guzman. If she wants, she can keep the first name. I’ll probably never call her that, so it won’t matter. Duke is permanent. I need to get the James back in there.
He was the only one who was able to pull me out of the dark and give me light. And even though I no longer live in the darkness, everything around me is still dim.
“You could never be my nightmare, Lachlan Duke.” I stand straight and wait until he’s fully paying attention. “I love you more than I hate anything.”
“I don’t know if there’s something that goes beyond love, but whatever it is, that’s what I feel for you,”
I don’t know how women survive in this world, let alone thrive, shouldering all of their burdens and everyone else’s.
“You never have to thank me for protecting you. That’s my job.”
