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Not seeing Naomi is no different than living without the sun.
I don’t care what I have to do as long as it keeps him safe. If it means selling my soul for parts, so be it. He’s the one who made me well aware of that soul in the first place. It seems fitting to sacrifice it for him.
I lost a part of my soul seven years ago and I’ve never managed to get it back. Which is strange as fuck since I thought I didn’t have a soul in the first place.
It’s her. Naomi. The one who broke me. Broke us. Now, it’s time I do the same.
If I keep getting caught in the maze his eyes create, I’ll most definitely never find a way out.
This is my first tear of joy in seven years. And it’s all because of him. My heartbreakingly beautiful monster. My beast has made me feel wanted. Important. Alive.
I never stopped to consider that my own Achilles heel would enable me to touch heaven even while living through hell.
I always thought we were two unique pieces that fit together perfectly, but maybe we’ve been forcibly jamming ourselves into molds that don’t fit us. Two wrongs don’t make a right.
Being black was fine, even if it felt empty. Then you came along, and I wanted fucking gray. Now, I’m just colorless,
It should’ve been my name attached to yours. My ring on your finger. My fucking arm around yours. You were my Naomi first. My fucking woman. But you went ahead and ruined it.”
“Have you ever thought about going back to Japan?” “No. It reminds me of my parents’ deaths.” “I’m sorry.” “I’ll go with you, though.” “Really?” “I’d go anywhere in the fucking world with you, baby.”
Don’t repeat your parents’ mistake, Sebastian. Don’t walk toward death with your own two feet.” I lean back in my chair and let the information sink it, then I release a sigh. “But that’s the thing, Uncle. I’d rather die than live without being alive.”
He’s the man who fucking loves you with everything he has and doesn’t have. Sebastian Akira Weaver
I’m free to be with you…I mean, if you…want to.” “Of course I fucking want to. I needed to be with you a lifetime ago.”
