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“Bones, you don’t have to hide the soft parts of you. Not from me,” he murmured. “No matter what’s goin’ on between us, I will never use them to hurt you.”
😭😭
“You know what I think about almost every night?” he murmured. I could’ve sworn he pressed his lips briefly to my knuckles, but I wasn’t sure. I thought I’d ripped out all the feelings I had for him, but I could feel them there again, tiny shoots uncurling and stretching upwards. “I think about your face when Lana pulled that gun on you. You looked relieved. You were gonna just sit there and let her kill you. An’ all I knew was that I couldn’t let that happen.”
💔💔💔💔💔
“Can we be friends?” he asked, holding out his hand like he wanted to shake.
😭 I love him so much
I tried to ignore my feelings for him wrapping roots around my heart.
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Trey’s ears went pink. “Oh, I made something for Bones.” He placed one of my small green glass bottles on the table with a single dandelion flower inside. As I looked closer, I realized the flower was carved out of wood and painted a cheerful yellow with the stem green. “Can’t get the real ones now, so I figured this could stand in for ’em during the winter.” My heart felt impossibly tight and too big all at once. I picked up the little wooden carving, trying my hardest to keep my expression even, but I struggled. When I looked up, both Leda and Trey smiled at me. “Thank you,” I said, trying
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EEEEEEEEE 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹
“Bones, look up,” Trey repeated. I lifted my eyes and sucked in a gasp, all thoughts of escape vanishing from my mind. In the night sky, ribbons of green and purple lights were dancing. I watched them move gracefully across the sky, my mouth agape. Trey chuckled behind me, but I didn’t care. This was magic. It had to be. “They’re called the Northern Lights,” Trey said.
Bro I’m crying
“Touch her again, and I’ll put a bullet between your eyes,” Trey said in a dark voice I’d never heard him use before.
Ok daddy Trey
“I want you to live,” he added, his voice hoarse with emotion. “And yeah, it’s partly ’cause I’m a selfish bastard. I just can’t stand the thought of livin’ in a world without you in it.”
❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
“Can’t you see how much you mean to me?” He let go of one of my hands to reach out and brush a stray hair out of my face, tucking it behind my ear.
My HEARTTTTTTTT
“I know you’re used to people wanting your power, but gods, Bones, all I want is you.”
He’s so fuxing presh
“How are you feelin’?” Trey asked. I took a second to think about it. “Don’t yell at me, but I promise I actually feel fine.” He laughed out loud, and I couldn’t help the smile that crossed my face again in response. His laugh felt like sunshine, and I was the godsdamned fool soaking it up like I was starving for it. “C’mere.” He reached out with his hand.
The sunshine boyyyy 🥹
“You’re a river, Bones,” he said, squeezing my hands hard to get my attention. “You don’t break, you bend. If someone tries to control you, you find a new way around. People might think you’re just water, might think they have you contained, but you’re strong enough to cut a path through mountain rock and wild enough to wash everythin’ away when you rage.”
😭😭😭😭😭😭 I love him
“I’d wait a thousand years for you.” “You’d be long dead in a thousand years,” I said dryly, even though my heart pounded. “It’d still be worth it,” he whispered, and then he kissed me.
🥹❤️🔥
He kissed me like he’d been dying, and I was the only thing that could save him. It wasn’t like the gentle, soft kisses we’d shared before. This kiss was hard and desperate, like he wanted to devour me.
THIS MANNNN
“Not this. You don’t ever need to apologize for your scars.” “But—” I tried to protest, feeling shaky. “These scars are proof you survived,” he interrupted softly. “That you walked through fire, and you came out the other side. You’re a godsdamned warrior, Bones, and the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen.”
He’s too perfect
I took a shaky breath, the realization hitting me. “You smell like home.” “The lavender soap?” “No,” I whispered, “just you.” That’s why I loved his scent so much. I wondered how long I’d been making that association without realizing it.
This is triggering me 🫣
“I’ll be your home as long as you need.”
STOPPPPPPP
“My mom made that quilt.” My fingers trailed over the soft surface of the blanket, emotion overwhelming me that he trusted me with something so precious. “It’s beautiful,” I whispered. “I loved it because it smelled like you.” My cheeks warmed again with the realization that he had indeed been home for a while. “I guess that makes sense now.” He beamed at me, brighter than the sun.
😭😭 his mommmmmm
I wanted to hear my name on his lips like that forever. No, I wanted to hear my real name—
Tell us damnit
“Glowing,” he repeated. “They looked like liquid gold.”
Ummmmm are they some kind of mates
Well, if I was a roaring river, shifting and unpredictable, Trey was the very mountain beneath us, steady and constant.
✨🥹✨ I love this so much
“So, you and me, we’re a thing now, right?” he asked. “Depends. What’s ‘a thing’ mean?”
YOUR HONOR I LOVE THEM
“Means you’re mine and I’m yours. We don’t make love with anybody else.” “‘Make love,’” I repeated, amused, but I couldn’t deny that was exactly what he’d done last night. He gave me a playful glare. “It also means I get to take care of you. No more ‘I’m fine’ shit.” “What if I am fine?” “Ok, smartass, you can say you’re fine if you’re actually fine. I mean no lying. It means that I get all of you and you get all of me. The good and the bad. It means I’ll always have your back. No matter what.” Blooms filled my chest again. “Do I get to kiss you whenever I want?” He grinned, delighted. “You
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“You’ve been exiled,”
!!!!!!!!!!! There’s more to this story
To my knowledge, she never tortured people until about three months before we brought you back.”
Hmmmmmmm
“I’m Flint, and this is my wife Sara.” My wife.
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Gods, this man. I loved him. I loved him so much that it made my heart ache with the beauty of it.
Oh Bonesy finally letting herself feel something 💕💖💕💓💗
“My favorite color is the color of your eyes.” His eyebrows raised, but that sunshine smile chased away the concern. “Brown?” “Yes,” I gasped as his fingers brushed over my nipples. “I’ve never wanted to get lost in someone’s eyes before I met you.”
🥹😭❤️🔥
“Have I ever told you,” I asked in a conversational tone, “that you are the most handsome man I’ve ever seen?”
“I love you, Trey, and I want you,” I repeated in a whisper. “I love you.” His voice sounded rough with emotion, and then he captured my lips in a desperate, bruising kiss that made our teeth click together.
Stop the train I’m crying again
“Bones, open your eyes,” Trey gasped, stilling. I hadn’t even realized I’d closed them, but when I opened my eyes, I froze. I was glowing. All of me. Glowing. As though sunshine ran through my veins and beamed through my skin in a warm golden light. “Oh my gods,” I got out. “Beautiful.”
Bruh I need more info about this magical bish
“I love you.” My voice caught. His hands came up to cup my face, stroking my cheekbones with his thumbs.
🥹
“I lost my wife a couple years back to a fever. We had nearly twenty-seven years together, but it still feels too short.” He looked at Trey. “Don’t take a single moment for granted.”
Please no theforeshadowing is scaring me
“I know it’s a risk, but gods, Bones, don’t you want to live for something else besides just survivin’? What’s the point if you’re too scared to experience all the things that make life worth living? I am scared—fuckin’ terrified, of losing you. I don’t know how much time we have, but I do know I don’t want to miss a single second of lovin’ you.”
😭
You gotta start trying to save yourself, too. I pushed Trey’s soft voice somewhere far, far away where I couldn’t hear it anymore,
😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
“Nemo’s in charge. He’s makin’ changes, big changes. We’re gonna make this place better.” He paused, his voice growing gruffer with emotion. “We’re gonna make it what Trey wanted it to be.”
💔😭😭
“Did Griz tell you that you healed fifteen people at once with that burst of power?” Fifteen people, but not Trey. Not Dune.
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“I loved him, too,” Mac’s voice sounded low and rough. “I miss him every damn day.” Unshed tears ached in my throat. “We buried him,” he added, releasing my arm to gently wrap my cold hand in his. “Took a long time to get through the ground ’cause it’s still a little frozen, but I can take you to his grave whenever you’re ready. If you want.” His grave.
Screaming crying throwing up
She watches you. Everything you do. You’re teaching her what to think about herself by how you think about you. Trey’s words stabbed through my head.
I’m Fucking wrecked
The pain that stabbed through me at the mention of Trey’s name took my breath away for a moment. Would that ever go away? Or would it hurt for the rest of my life?
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How much pain could a person take before they went mad? I wasn’t sure how much more I could bear.
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didn’t see Clarity at all. I tried to convince myself it would be disrespectful to go to her. If she didn’t want to see me, I could at least honor that. She probably hated me, and I couldn’t blame her. Seeing me would probably just cause her more pain, and gods, hadn’t I done enough?
???? What’s up w her she was so weird last time we seen her and now nothing?
“He was p-puttin’ me back together.” I whispered. “And now I’m broken just like Madame.”
Fucking tear out my heart and stomp it into smithereens
“I wish he was still alive so I could kill him. Slowly,” he muttered. Trey had said almost the same thing. Despite the heaviness, the grief, and the horrible memories crowding my mind, I had to fight the urge to smile. Gods, maybe I’d truly lost it. I was broken. The harder I tried to keep a straight face, the more the corner of my lips turned up. His eyes focused on my mouth, surprise washing away a little bit of the darkness in his eyes.
Plz let them be endgame? 🫣🥹😭💔❤️🔥
