Oleander: A Great Expectations Reimagining
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Started reading January 30, 2025
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am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul.
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Only I could love Caspien how he deserved to be loved. And so I would. I’d love him in spite of everything he was and everything I knew he could be. No matter what he did, no matter how much he hurt me, in this I would be constant. As long as Caspien Deveraux breathed, I would love him.
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love you. I don’t want to remember a time when I didn’t. I love you. And as long as I am able to draw breath, then I will love you with every single one. I love you.
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He’d carved out a part of my heart and soul for himself and nothing except him would be able to fit inside it. It was him or it was nothing. It was him.
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do. I knew I shouldn’t want him anywhere near me, not again. But I was Jude. And Jude loved Cas. And so I also knew I would never tell him to go again.
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us. What was one more battle scar on my heart when the war was this glorious?
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He held me so tight it was as though he was afraid I might disappear, and I wanted to tell him that I never would. “I’m yours, Cas,” I told him. “You’re mine, and I’m yours. Always. Tell me you know that, tell me.” “I know, Jude,” he replied, soothingly. “I know.”
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He made himself miserable, forced himself into a life with that piece of shit for what? For what?” I tore at my hair and scrubbed a hand over my mouth. Gideon looked sadder than I’d ever seen him. “For you, Jude. For you.”