Haunted Love

by Sheridan Anne

Surely there’s another word for pathetic. How about pitiful? Deplorable? Hell, miserable seems like a good substitute.

“My couch isn’t filthy,” I say, personally offended. “It’s just got character.”

I’m sick of waiting for a man that’s never going to love me.

There’s a distinct feel of a piercing brushing against my skin, and it only excites me further.

There’s an intimacy about it, and just like that, I’ve been ruined for any other man.

The journey is in discovering where, but the true adventure is what happens once you find it.”

I’m fucking floored by her beauty.

And suddenly, I’m willing to cross every fucking line to find out.

We were like fire together.

Aspen Ryder is not mine. She’s far from it. She’s mine in other terms of the word. Mine to protect, mine to make laugh, and mine to care for, just as she is to Austin.

He’s forward, I like that, but he clearly doesn’t know the difference between your and you’re.

Aspen - Where are you? Do you need me to come get you? Izaac - Not unless you want me to throw you up against a wall and fuck you until you can’t walk.

“I’ve spent the last few years purposefully pulling away from you, and I’ve missed out on getting to know the person you’ve become.”

You’re my only sister, Aspen, and I know we fight all the time, but I love you.”

When you’ve been so deeply in love with someone for most of your life, it’s statistically inevitable that at some point, that person will cause you pain.

It’s a cruel world we live in because I got exactly what I wanted, only it’s nothing like I wanted at all.

“You want the fucking truth?” I roar, my fingers gripping her so damn tight. “I want you more than anything I’ve ever wanted in my goddamn life, and it fucking kills me that I can’t be what you need. The mere thought of anyone else putting their hands on you drives me insane. And when I told you I’d never love you, it’s not because I don’t want to, because believe me, I fucking want to. I want it so fucking bad it aches. I can’t love you because I’m not capable of it. I don’t know how.”

“If I win, Birdy, I make you my wife.”