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September 28 - September 30, 2023
“How sick?” My voice comes out hoarse. Looking into identical eyes to my own, I try again when he doesn’t answer. “How fucking sick, Da?” My father’s mouth turns into a grim line. “Really fucking sick, kid. I’ll fight it. I won’t ever stop fighting for forever with you, little king, but just in case something was—”
“I’ve seen you smile more in this fifteen-minute ride than I’ve had in the last five years,” Gus whispers, drawing my attention away from my hands to his tattooed ones that rest on the car’s wheel. “Whatever punishment comes my way, it’ll be worth it.” His tone changed. It’s gentle, and all humor is gone. Tenderness.
“I will tell you everything.” He says fiercely. “But you need to come with me.” “You could be the bad guy,” I whisper. A moment of silence passes between us before he speaks again. “I would rather cut my own heart out with pliers, sweetheart, than cause you any harm.”
Over seven years ago, on one Halloween night, I came across a giant man with a butterfly tattoo on his throat. The dark night didn’t allow me to see much of him, but I do remember the tattoos on his neck and his voice.
One smile from her and I was gone.
I was the type to fuck ’em’-and- leave-’em’ but one thing I do know is that a man in love would go to war for his woman without question Without fear.
Allegra’s first words were not Dada or Mama. No. Her first word was bitch. All thanks to her mother’s colorful mouth.
My future wife just friend-zone the fuck out of me. Who would have thought that I would have to compete for her affection with my damn self? I sure the fuck didn’t.
He pulls me gently until I’m straddling the bike. I hold my breath as he stands behind me with both tattooed arms around me. Then he places my hands on top of the handlebars. “You shine, Mila. So. Fucking. Bright.” he whispers, and I can feel the little hairs on the back of my neck rise. So do you, Riagan. Like all the stars in the sky at once.
He taps my hat once, and my heart beats faster at the same time as my grin takes over my entire face. I think I’ve never, in my nineteen years on this earth, smiled as big as I do here.
Wait. Earlier it said she was 14 afthat halloween party an that its been 7 years since then so shed be 21. The dicrepancies like that are ruinin this
“You are telling me that my favorite animals are the sea’s sex freaks?”
“I want you to like me.” I notice his expression doesn’t change. Looking down at his bearded cheek, I reply. “I already like you.” “I want you to desire me as a man, not a friend, Mila.” His voice catches me off guard. He sounds different than before. Almost mad? No, not mad. Passionate.
Most people are terrified of what lurks in the dark, but I am not one of them. Evil has no preference. Evil hides in daylight as well.
“Riagan, do you know the most beautiful places on earth?” His hold on me doesn’t loosen, and the rain keeps falling around us like a gentle caress. “Ha Long Bay, the colosseum, the Amazon rain—” I don’t get to finish sharing all the places because he stops me, “Nah, baby. You are.” He whispers close to my lips. “The most beautiful place is right here with you.”
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“I won’t tell him, so get rid of that frown, will you?” Her voice is gentle, and so is her smile. “Now, come on. He’s waiting for you. Has been for a really long time.”
And he didn’t even know that just by being around, he was slaying all the many demons that my father instilled in me and keeping all the nightmares away. He’s my dream catcher.
And then something beautiful happens. As I ride the wave of ecstasy, I feel my belly tighten, and it’s like I’m flying. It only took one and a half strokes, and something beautiful happened. Just like when he had his mouth on me before, my belly tightens, and my breathing stops.
“Children are forever. They bind us for life.” Then, with more seriousness than I’d been expecting for a conversation I’d just been teasing him about, he says, “I thought you would have realized by now, Mila. You gave yourself to me, and I don’t plan on ever letting you go. Children or not. This is it, baby. Till death do us part, and even then, I’ll follow you there, too.”
“When I think of my good days, the best days now, all I see is your face.”