“From now on, if you fall, we fall together. If you bleed, I bleed.” He took my hand and pressed it against his shredded skin. The wounds had already started to scab, and his blood felt tacky beneath my fingers. “Say it, Lilith. Say it so I know you heard me,” he whispered, his lips inches from mine. I swallowed the peppermint on his breath and gave him a tiny nod. “If I bleed, you bleed,” I repeated, my voice barely a whisper. Despite everything he had done to me, I believed him. No one had ever looked at me the way he was looking at me now. Like he would move planets and reduce entire
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