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“You said I couldn’t control how people treated me, but I could control my reaction to their mistreatment. That it would define who I was.”
I chose to focus on what I could control and the blessings in my life.
“You’re my daughter and I’ve never regretted a single moment with you.” He reached for me as if to pull me into a hug and then thought better of it.
“I’m a powerful man. Powerful men can be forgiven for loose tongues.
“Okay, now go grab something to read for fun,” he told me as we sat across from each other in the back of the school library.
“Fun?” I questioned, raising what I hoped was just one eyebrow.
His perfect lips pulled into a perfect smile and he leaned forward, “Yes Fallon, some crazy peo...
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“If I could take the curse from you, I would, Fallon,” he whispered,
“The Light made you perfect and then you were cursed. It’s different.”
“You think I don’t want you?”
“I’m destined for darkness. No one should want me,” I mumbled against his chest, my head lolling downward.
“Hey!” he said loudly, and my eyelids snapped open as I jerked my chin to look up at him.
“You’re too desirable, Fallon. It...
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“And what if I go dark?” I whimpered.
His face sobered. “Then I will jump into the shadows and pull you back to the Light.”
“I’m saying that from the moment I met you I’ve felt some spark of myself come alive that I long thought was dead. I’m saying that I can’t get the way you smell out of my head, and I dream about tasting you. I’m saying, Fallon Brookshire, that I don’t care who your mother is, I just want to be the person that makes you happy. It’s always been you.”
“I love that I’m the only one who gets to do that to you,” Ariyon murmured against my ear.
