Red Thorns (Thorns Duet, #1)
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The girl behind the rare smiles and the ‘fuck the world’ attitude.
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I’m Akira and I was born in Japan. Tokyo, to be exact.
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I’m merely an asocial who likes to leave them alone in hopes they’ll do the same in return.
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Reina Ellis is tall, blonde, fit, and has deep blue eyes that she’s currently judging me with.
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The one with sandy hair and sharp features and hard, glistening abs that could very well be used as a weapon.
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Sebastian Weaver.
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MY MAN
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He could be the most beautiful man God has created.
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“Asher would serial kill me if I come near you. I still need my life.”
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The ever-so-calm Asher Carson turns into a violent motherfucker when it comes to Reina and often beat up guys for merely looking at her the wrong way in high school.
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The less you care, the less you’re attached and the freer your mind is.”
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“I hope you fall in love one day.”
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One moment, I’m walking, and the next, Sebastian turns around, grabs me by the waist, and tugs me against him.
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“The reason is her,” he says, and then his lips meet mine.
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He doesn’t only kiss, he’s out to devour me. To paint black stars in the midst of the bright white lights.
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“I don’t want to let you go, Naomi. I rather like it here. Just like this.”
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You barely smile because you like being angry at the world and everyone in it and prefer to be an asocial weirdo instead of putting on a mask.
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My lips part as I stare up at him. There’s…no way he’d be able to know all of that about me. Not when we’ve barely had any contact.
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He knows everything
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“Now I know what you truly are,” he says. “And what is that?” “Tsundere.”
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“It means someone who’s hot and cold. Violent on the outside, despite being soft on the inside.”
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“See you tomorrow, Tsundere,”
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Mine is written with the characters of honest and beautiful.”
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Soon enough, we were speaking an identical language only the two of us could recognize.
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“No, sorry. That comes with a price, Uncle.” “Don’t call me that. Makes me feel ancient.” “You are ancient. What are you? Thirty-five?”
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Netflix also wasn’t much help, but hey, true crime shows are better than overthinking everything.
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my girl is so me
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Sebastian is here. In my house.
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“I’m actually trying to court her.”
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“Good luck with that.”
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“The type where if you win, I’ll leave you alone. If you don’t, you’ll give me something I want.”
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“In case you forgot, I won, Tsundere,
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Sebastian draws the car to a halt on a gravelly road. Right in the middle of a dark, empty forest. His voice gains a frightening edge as it penetrates my skin. “Get out.”
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“To run, Tsundere.”
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It’s the most beautifully haunting mess I’ve ever had the chance to witness, to breathe in and feel up close.
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Sebastian is downright beautiful in everyday clothes, but he looks like a god in his football uniform with those two streaks of black underneath his eyes.
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“My own Tsundere.”
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“I’m saying we’re similar, Nao, you and I. And I’ll make you embrace it even if it’s the last thing I do.”
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Correction. I’m in the mood for kidnapping Naomi and chasing her.
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She texted first.
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“I’ll let you go and you’ll run. If I catch you, I’m going to take you,
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“Reality.”
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This is crazy. He’s crazy. I’m crazy.
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Since I first met Sebastian, I always found him beautiful with his dark blond hair, his sharp features, and eyes that resemble the most exotic sea to ever exist. But I didn’t realize how dangerous that beauty was until I couldn’t see him.
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He strokes my cheek with his nose, making me shiver. “Because it’s night and you become my whore at night.”
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A modern Adonis.
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No one except for my Tsundere.
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“It’s definitely not nothing.”
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“We’re not that common, Tsundere. I wouldn’t be able to find someone whose crazy matches mine.”
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“So you’re stuck with me?” “No. You’re stuck with me, baby.”
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“We are. You just refuse to admit it and what great parents we’d make, Tsundere.”
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“Until you’re ready to go down that road, you’re mine to destroy.”
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In that moment, after the beast in him and the fantasies in me are satiated, I swear there’s some sort of a glow that surrounds us.
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