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But that brightness… Lands. Titles. Crowns. Kingdoms. I would give it all up in exchange for one day of reprieve in its serenity. Fuck… a moment. A minute. A breath.
Owls, enemies, vicious winds… on my life, nothing would ever harm her. Except for me. Just like I’d feared.
“Can you at least, for fuck’s sake, sweetheart… meet me halfway and not taunt death, hmm?”
“Every shroud of darkness, every wicked desire, every single fucked-up part of me, I poured into you. You have experienced my depravity, my hatred, those suffocating shadows at my core.” His fingers kept on fumbling, more frantically now. “And you liked it. Goddess, help me… please tell me you liked it.”
“If there’s love in this pain, then I want it. I just don’t want there to be any pain in this love.”
“I already bathed there today.” “And yesterday. And the day before that. Sweetheart, I’m starting to think you’re actually a duck in disguise.”
“I hope you saw that just now. I’m sure she pushed her toes beneath my calf a hundred times already while I was asleep. I’m glad that I was awake for it once, but brother, how did you handle it? Her toes are bitterly cold.”
Or maybe, there was something wrong with both of us, but who cared? Even if we were both broken, then put together, her cracks matched up perfectly with mine.