Rain (Into the Storm, #1)

by A.L. Woods

“Just say yes and you’ll be everything to me forever, Allie.”

“Do you love me?” I asked him wearily. “Or is this another way to control me?” Dom loved control and power more than he loved people or things.

Get ready to show me your fire, Hellraiser. The devil’s coming home to play. And he won’t be so nice this time.

I missed out on the end of Sailor Moon. I didn’t get to see her rescue Tuxedo Mask from Queen Beryl. She turned him bad, did you know that?”

I see you A.L. 👀 i see you!

We were two sides of the same coin, deeply insecure, with a sick penchant for control, and an obsession with destroying one another because the power we wielded over the other fed some debauched part inside of us.

“You’re surrounded by people.” She nodded, her features contorting with a flicker of pain that passed. “And sometimes that’s the loneliest place to be,”

“When we love someone, we’re willing to endure hell for them, even at the expense of our own sanity.”

And with unrequited love came resentment when you realized someone had what you wanted.

I needed him to hurt me while he loved her, because that was what she deserved, what she’d always deserved—uninhibited love without boundaries.

That hadn’t been my purpose. My purpose was to find myself in this godforsaken place with these people who were a lot like me. Just as fucked up, just as broken, just as desperate to be loved and needed as I was.

I wasn’t a hero. I wasn’t even the villain—I was the lesson. The final one she had to learn. You can love someone so much, and it still might not be enough. Sometimes, the truest form of love was forcing them to let you go.