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Kal’s has rubies, Pierce’s has emeralds, and Axl’s, sapphires. Mine has black diamonds, a nod to my Obsidian city.
Those eyes grin like a cat catching a canary. “With all the other sheep?” I’m already backing away, but I don’t break his gaze. “Baa,” I say, then wink at him before whirling around and losing myself in the crowd.
“You going to turn into a pumpkin at midnight?” A laugh slips from my lips as I clear the double doors, hurrying down the hallways. “One for fairy tales, huh?” “Only the darker ones,”
“I hate liars,” he says smoothly. “Lumathyst is filled with them.” “Yes,” I say. “And the biggest ones usually have the deepest pockets.”
“Touch her like that one more time, and you’ll lose more than that arm,”
“Even a night away from you will feel like a lifetime,”
“More than the stars around us.”
And will there ever be a time when I stop doubting and start accepting? When I believe I’m a fraction good enough for them?
Maybe it isn’t about me needing him to convince me. Maybe I need to convince myself.
Nightmares don’t fall in love and live happily ever after.
“I want to ruin you.”
“I had to choose you. I needed to choose you. There was no stopping it. And the second the words came out of my mouth, I knew I’d damned us.”
“I’ll burn the whole fucking world down and laugh the ash out of my lungs.”
“The minute I heard your voice, the minute I sensed your emotions, you felt like mine.”
“You want me to ruin you, butterfly?”
I feel like a queen. They make me believe I’m something worthy of worship, of love, of respect, of passion intense enough to overtake everything else.
