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Hades: The hounds they send to wreak havoc. Riøt: The executors of traitors. And Malum: The Evil—the squad that goes where no one else can or is qualified to go, to snuff out the enemy quietly like ghosts in the darkness of night.
She might think I broke her tonight, but it’s she who has broken me.
“Easy killer, it’s just your favorite fuck boy.”
“I want to dominate you. I want to break you into a million pieces and make you answer only to me. I want to keep you as far away from my squad as possible before I ruin what’s left of you. Because if you don’t leave, that’s what’s going to happen. I’ll break you, just like I break everything. Is that enough? Will you shut the fuck up now?”
“Oh, Bunny, you sick little thing. Tell me you aren’t into this too. The pain kink was already catching my heartstrings, but this? This makes me want to brand you as mine.”
“You two are making my life really fucking hard right now, you know that?” Eren practically laughs, but the humor in his voice doesn’t reflect in his dark blue eyes. “First you’re fighting, then hurting each other.” I open my mouth to argue that only Bradshaw has hurt me, but Eren’s pointed look shuts me up. “And now you two are… what the fuck even is this? Are you fucking now?” He throws his hands in the air, exasperated.
Sleep my bunny, your next breath is not promised.
“Together, our broken pieces can do anything.”
“And if you think I’m ever letting you go, you’re wrong. You’re mine. As much as I’m yours.”
“You are where my sanity starts,” he murmurs gravely, his jaw setting and brows knitting. He hates to admit these things to me—that much is obvious. But it warms my chest that he shares it with me anyway. “You are where mine ends,”
“I’m never letting you go again, Bun. Never. You’ve always belonged to me.
I’d left her small things that I hoped she’d see and know I was watching her. That I was with her always. A bunny in the field. The drawings through the condensation of her hotel windows. The bunny stickers on restaurant menus where she frequented.
“Promise me forever, Bun. You’re where my sanity starts.” I can hear the smile in his voice. “You are where mine ends.”
She gets up and brushes the part on my back where she carved a symbol into me. It took me a while to figure out what it meant. In the end, I fell in love with a Riøt soldier after all. Ø
