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February 15 - February 18, 2025
I was not born to be Lillian’s slave. I was her daughter.
These men get to treat everyone like pawns in their game and they’re applauded for being strong leaders, but we do it, and we’re scorned as evil bitches.” She rolled her neck. “They can call us whatever they want. They’re still the ones on their knees.”
“I will do what’s right for them both, because there is no world without Scarlett. And Scarlett is in love with the world. I would sooner die than let anything she loves go up in flames.”
I understood now that self-love was the love that had always mattered most, from which all other love rippled.
Scarlett Hale, my soul has been in love with yours since we were nothing but flecks of stardust. I would sooner die than let you believe otherwise ever again.”
“Does it make you uncomfortable to see your God on his knees before you, Little Flame?”
“But I wouldn’t be a good man if I didn’t take what has happened into consideration. That doesn’t mean I’m dishonest or pitying. It means I care about your well-being and refuse to let your trauma get shoved under the rug, nor will I ever consciously perpetuate your suffering.”
“Feel what you feel. But feelings and thoughts are not always reality. Especially when they’ve been planted inside us by those who wish to make us small.”
“I might feel broken right now, damaged beyond repair. But it’s your voice I hear when I dream of a possibility that one day, I might claim that wholeness all on my own. His love, your love, Penn’s and everyone else’s—it’s all going to help. But I see now that the more love I give myself, the more love I can accept from all of you.”
“I love every single part of you, from the wicked to the sublime. That powerful mind of yours, equally infuriating and captivating. The delicious chaos of your soul—the way it yearns for adventure and novelty, sex and power, comfort, love, and belonging. You became my entire world without even a drop of magick. We are inevitable. We always have been. And I will never stop showing you how hopelessly entangled my soul has become with yours. It is my deepest regret I ever showed you anything less.”
“Scarlett, my love, I would kneel before you in front of the entire damn world.”
“The born worship a woman and yet treat the rest as inferiors. And that makes them stupid and weak. I would be more powerful than their best man on my hands and knees in prayer before you.”
“In truth, what I wanted most was to remember what it felt like to be human. To fear death. To yearn for dreams forever on the horizon. To live and love viscerally, subconsciously understanding that nothing is guaranteed, and it could all end in an instant.”
And I fed you my blood because it made my cock throb to see you marked by your God.”
“When I look at you, all I see are stars. I see the woman I was born to love.
“I’m the one who has ruined you, Little Flame. It’s a good thing you’re mine, in this life and all the next.”
“Do you think it affects someone, forever? To have their first introduction into this world be their parents disposing of them?”
“Sometimes we’re given family, and other times we choose it. Neither is better nor worse than the other if both meet us with love and nourishment.”
“I feel as though today’s daily groveling should be performed by tongue,” he whispered, his breath tickling my ear. “How’s that sound, baby?”
“What was it that made you so needy for me, so desperate for my touch? The prospect of violence and retribution, or talking about all those men you’ve trapped in your succubus web?”
“You can rule this whole world, baby,” Rune said. “But don’t you ever fucking forget who rules you.”
“You have thirty seconds.” I’d never hated anyone more. “Remove the attitude from that pretty face or I’ll paint it with my cum and refuse to let you clean it off for the rest of the day.”
“Scarlett darling, be a good girl and sit on my face.”
“Now, Little Flame,” he commanded, his voice gravelly as his eyes devoured my nude form. “Let your jealous God show you just how devotedly he worships you.”
“Ride my tongue until you come,” he instructed. “Do not be shy, little demon. Close your eyes and imagine that violence and divine vengeance that got you so worked up. I want to taste your viciousness, your sweet, merciless wrath. I want my face wet with your darkness. I want to fucking drown in it.”
“Doms are just brats with power,” Sadie finished with a grin.
“You will never receive closure from other people. Closure is something that you give yourself.”
“Deserve is a strange concept,” I murmured. “Do any of us truly deserve pain? Struggle? Loss?”
“These things come for all of us, anyway. They’re inescapable. I think measuring what life gives us against what we think we deserve causes a lot more suffering than necessary. Better to remember that it’s all temporary, that a new season is right around the corner. I feel the most peaceful when I surrender.”
“This world was built by beautiful, deadly women, as much as we men would rather believe otherwise,” he called. “Give them hell, ladies.”
Let us remind this world that it was designed to worship women.”
I pulled back, giggling. “I subdued the enemy wearing nothing but a belt with daggers strapped to my thighs. I stabbed a man, nakedly.”
“Something about you nude, armed, and covered in blood has my obsession with you driven to new peaks, Scarlett darling.”
“You’re going to be marked by your God and dripping with his cum as this palace crumbles,” Rune growled.
“You were always the destination, the tomorrow I sought on the horizon.”
