The Brightness Between Us (The Darkness Outside Us, #2)

by Eliot Schrefer

I keep my eyes out for guards. A police officer gives me a long look, but he licks his lips lewdly when I pass. That’s fine. You can stare at me because I’m hot. Just don’t stare at me because I’m supposed to be arrested.

eliot STOP. ur too fucking funny this is serious

What was it that Dad once said? Intimacy is the only shield against insanity. Okay. But how can I be close to my family if they don’t want me to be who I truly am? Since I don’t want to witness their disappointment all day every day, my darkness must be a secret. And that makes me feel ashamed. It’s the dearest friend of loneliness, shame.

I crouch in the mud beside him. It’s hard to look into his lustrous brown eyes for long. “I’m going to bring you inside now. This will only work if you don’t make any sudden movements. If you do, I will take full advantage of your being restrained to eliminate you. Understood?” “Wow,” Ambrose said, eyebrows arching. “Did you tell yourself to get meaner while you were in the cabin just now?” I keep my face impassive. He’s right, of course. I did that very thing. Fought against my own weakness. “On your feet,” I say.

asdfghjkl in every life they live this couple kills me