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She was stolen innocence, following the rules of monsters. Somewhere along the way, she’d become one.
He represented purity, beauty, family, all of the things that had been taken from her. He was a glimmer of goodness in her dark fucking world, a warm spark she could hold, if only for a fleeting span of time.
“Better to be enchained with someone on your side,” he said, “than to be alone with a false sense of freedom.”
“I can feel you.” He leaned back, inhaled deeply. “Inside me. Everywhere. You own me. You will always own me, and I will walk through hell to keep it that way.”
“I stand here without rope or chains, Liv, tethered to you by my own will.” His blood beat with the ferocity of his words. “I won’t be free until you are.”
A deep level of satisfaction washed over him. He was able to give her something she’d never received from another man. Hope fluttered in his stomach. Maybe his love for her was big enough to heal her emotionally.
“I see all of you.” He wrapped his arms around her and pressed his lips to her temple. “I claim every jagged piece of you.”
“You said you freed me, but freedom isn’t defined by chains or walls. You, alive, with me. That’s my freedom.”
what defines us is not how we fall but how we land.”
