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You’ll be a woman, and a woman has all the power up above.
She knew all the right things to say. She was lying through her pointed teeth.
The world is your oyster, and you are the pearl, my sweet.”
Or perhaps it wasn’t the spell or my charm that won him over, but the fact that I was beautiful, nude, and silent. Something he could both show off to the world and manipulate to suit his whims.
I expect her to scream for help or try to swim away. Instead, the princess punches me right in the face.
I think there’s a bit of peace given to you when you accept who and what you are.
I don’t know what it is about a woman that wants me dead, but I swear nothing gets me harder.
Because they’re monsters, I hear Daphne’s voice in my head. All of them. And yet I was a monster once too.
“You are a stunning abyss of a creature,” I tell her. “One that I could spend eons swimming in and never get to the bottom of.”
“Darling, your body would bring any man to their knees where they would be in the right position to worship you. It’s a body carved by god yet meant for sin, and it would become anyone’s salvation.” “Then why aren’t you on your knees?”
God Almighty, she is the moon and I am the tides.
“My little monster has come out to play again,” I say, grinning up at her. “Don’t you know this only excites me?”
Some might say he speaks straight from the devil, but I’m discovering I like what the devil has to say.
“I’ve never had an addiction before,” he says hoarsely. “But I think you’ll be mine.”
Don’t get attached to a caged bird if you only mean to set them free,
“Then perhaps the both of us are mad, if madness and monsters are one of the same,” I murmur. “But we can be mad together. We can drown in our madness together.”
“Like you’re the moon and I’m the tides, and every thought, every need, every want, is drawn to you, Maren.” I laugh to myself. “You’re right, this is madness and I’m drowning and I don’t give a damn.”
You are the moon, I am the tides,
