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“You remind me of honeysuckle. Nectar sweet as honey, like the sound of your voice. But the berries are deceiving–poisonous if consumed.” He shrugs playfully. “Beautiful and deadly.”
“You came,” she whispers, breaking the silence. My hand flexes at my side, fighting the urge to reach for her, an instinct I’ve had since the day I met her. “You needed me.”
I’ve split my lifetime in two: before Darby and after Darby.
“I came because you needed me, because I promised you that I’d be there for you if you asked.
“Fuck being ladylike.”
“No, baby. That’s something you only find once. Something you’ll only ever know with me.”
“I think I might wait my whole life for you to come back, Darby. Something tells me there would be no point in trying to move on from this because I’d end up searching for you in every place I go. In every person I meet. Aimlessly wandering until I find you again.”
“It’s really beautiful,” I respond, knowing I’m staring at her, that I haven’t taken a single second to take in the scenery around me because she’s all I see anyway.
“I’ve never been much of a believer, baby.” He presses a kiss to my center. “But fuck, I’ll gladly kneel before you, worship at your altar.” I feel his lips move along my inner thigh as he whispers, “Pray for the salvation that can only be found between your legs.”
“I’ve been left behind my whole life, Darby,”
“By my mom when she died. By my dad when he decided it was my fault and abandoned me. I was left by Zach when he died too, by Elena and August when they couldn’t recover.”
“I was left by you.”
“You’re my ‘it for me’ person. You were my first love. Then, the one who got away. Now, you’re my ‘it was always you.’ And it doesn’t matter what happened in between, because you’re gonna be my forever person too.”
“You’re my once-in-a-lifetime kind of love, Darby.”
