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“Oh, I’m sorry, am I annoying you?” Her head rolled to the side lazily, and she flashed me a big, beaming smile. “Good.”
Autumn crossed her legs elegantly like a well-mannered woman from the upper class, tilted her head to the side and said, “Woof, woof.” A chuffing laugh burst out of me before I even knew what was happening. My eyes widened in shock. What. The. Fuck?
Begrudgingly, I had to give Autumn my respect. Despite being an annoying, chatty, massive pain in the ass, I had to give respect where respect was due.
Unwanted sexual advances were one of my triggers. I’d prefer the bite of a blade than to ever experience that again.
“Odnazhdy ya pererezhu tebe gorlo i iskupayus’ v tvoyey krov,” he spat harshly before spinning around, giving me his back, effectively ending our conversation. A smirk curled my lips. Autumn: 1 Dimitri: 0
I grasped a chicken drumstick and smacked Dimitri across the face with it. It made this very satisfying splat sound, thanks to all the gravy. His eyes bulged wide in shock, mouth dropping open as if he couldn’t believe I had the audacity to slap him in the face with a piece of chicken.
Slowly, I lowered myself into a gentleman’s bow, wrapping one arm around my middle while the opposite leg swept out behind me. Proper etiquette dictated you also bow your head at the same time to show respect, but that wasn’t what this was about. It was more like a bow someone would give to a crowd at the end of a performance, except it was for Autumn and Autumn alone. My way of saying, “I’m still standing, bitch”.
LMAOOO I AM LOVING THISSS!! 😂😂😂😂
Fed up and full of anger, I unlocked that dark, evil side of me. The one that felt nothing. No pain. No remorse. No mercy. The Butcher.
“Love is…” There was almost a dreamlike note to the words as if he was reliving some sort of memory associated with the word. “Everything,” he breathed reverently. “It’s everything. It’s like coming home. An overwhelming sense of peace and serenity. It’s joy. Happiness. Awe. And a million other things that make your heart race so fast, you feel like it’s going to burst out of your chest. It’s warmth. And sunshine. And light and laughter. A hurricane of emotions that just knock you off your feet. It’s waking up early just so you can watch them sleep. It’s three A.M. trips to the store for ice
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“Ultimately, though, love…is death. Because to love someone—and I mean truly, truly love someone—your heart…your soul…are tethered to theirs. So, when they die, you die too. Air might still enter your lungs. Your heart might still beat. Blood might still pump in your veins. But you’re not alive. Not really. Not anymore. That part of you that made you you died along with them. You might laugh or smile, but it will be empty. It will be meaningless. Everything will be empty without them. You’ll live your days like a zombie, coasting through life but never really living, waiting eagerly for the
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Not like my Lukyan. We’ve been together for a while now, you know? It’s coming up to our six-month anniversary. We’re going to celebrate big.” “That sounds…nice.” She sounded delusional, if I was being honest.
“I don’t—” “Did I sound like I was finished?” I snapped. His mouth clicked shut.
“What is it that you want from me?” I asked softly, my resolve almost cracking. “Don’t you know?” he said, eyes filled with longing. He got to his feet and cradled my face in his hands, tilting my head up to look him in the eyes. It was insane how such a simple move could make me feel so…cherished. Perhaps it was because Dimitri had never acted that way with me before. “You,” he murmured over my lips. “Just you. From now until the end of time.”
“You love her, Dimitri. That’s not just going to change. And while I can understand how hard this must be for you, I refuse to continuously compete for first place in your heart.” “No, baby,” he murmured softly, stepping forward to grasp my face again with both hands. “There’s no competition. She was the mother of my children. A huge part of my life. I’ll always respect and care for her on some level. But my heart no longer belongs to her. It belongs to you.”
“I’m in love with you, Autumn. You’re the one I think about. The one I dream about. The one I can’t bear to be without. You.”
“You own all of me. It’s all yours, to do with as you wish. If you wanted to cut my heart out and destroy it in your hands for what I did to you, I would let you. I would do whatever it takes to make you happy. To see you smile. To hear your laugh.” His thumb ran over my bottom lip in a soft caress. My breath hitched. “To feel your lips again. I would do anything because you’re the one I cannot live without. My malen’kaya d'yavolista."
Lukyan seemed to shrivel right before my eyes, the harsh words falling from Aleksandr and Nikolai’s lips making him feel small. I could see it in the way his body folded forward. The way his head hung down. They didn’t have the same confidence in him that I did, and that hurt him.
Lukyan was mine, and no one was going to stop me from having him. Not even him.
