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Her smile is everything to me, like it might make my brain melt the way her cheeks push up her eyelids and she tries to keep her lips closed.
The strangest of all of the strange developments of late is that, somehow, Vanessa and I have fallen into a routine of watching movies together after everyone’s gone to sleep.
I don’t know how to tell her she’s the most beautiful woman, monster or not, that I’ve ever seen, and with every day that passes in her presence, I’m increasingly certain that there’s hardly a bad or cruel or monstrous thing about her.
“You know what I am,” Vanessa says. “I do. I think you’re the greatest thing that’s ever happened to me.”
“I need you to be very clear about what you’re saying,” Vanessa says, and her voice isn’t confident, but nearly shaking. Timid. I just want to keep touching her, I want to hold her against me—showing my feelings would be easier than speaking them, but I know that wouldn’t be enough, so I take a big breath and try. “Maxim is a better choice. He’s perfect for you,” I start. “But I want you to choose me instead.”
“You’ll change your mind,” she says, and her eyes are welling with tears that I want to wipe away with my thumbs. “You can’t want this.” I do step closer now, anxious to touch her and hold her and kiss all over her face, put hickeys on her neck so everyone knows she’s mine.
She’s alive, and she is beautiful.
“I love you,” he says, pauses, then rushes on, “I am criminally, fatally in love with you, and you can try to marry someone else, but I’m not going to leave. I like your house too much and I like you too much to ever be away from you.” For once, I do not interrupt because I can tell he has more to say, and I want to hear every one of his reasons. “I know that Maxim is better for you, I get that on paper he is the perfect fit, but he isn’t. It’s me, Vanessa. It’s you and me, I can’t explain how I know it, but I do. It’s us. We’re meant to be, and I will not let some Russian mob boss come
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