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A quiet flame that rose with a burgeoning need to be set free. Emotions I was forced to keep hidden for fear of looking possessed by evil, as girls were often perceived when they felt too much.
“Your curse, though a burden today, may prove useful tomorrow. It is an unrivaled power you possess.”
find it interesting that any time a girl is unusual, or dare I say, unique, she’s deemed evil, or cursed.”
whims of fate are an irksome intrusion, and yet …” He canted toward me, as if to kiss me, his lips mere inches from mine. “Who could’ve predicted that one touch of your pounding pulse would be so disarming.”
“What wicked spells you weave, little witch.”
“I have slept for a very long time. But since you arrived, I don’t want to sleep. I want to jump and dance and breathe again.”
What was this exquisite creature? This peculiar little enchantress who stirred his soul? He stared in awe, mesmerized by her bewitching darkness. Magnificent.
“It’s not my fate!” That time, I was the one who snapped. “I don’t believe in fate. It’s done nothing but curse me my entire life. So, forgive me if I don’t give a damn about what it has planned for me.”
am angry at you.” The deep timber of his voice rumbled in my ear, and he spun me around, keeping in time with the other couples. “For wearing this dress. For looking so painfully exquisite, you’ve managed to draw everyone’s attention. Including mine.”
“Some women are fire in your veins and hell between your teeth, Brother.
disappointed that I didn’t kill you?” “I’m simply curious as to why.” “You want the truth?” “Always, yes.” “Your snoring.” “What?” Heat flared in my cheeks. “I don’t …. I don’t snore.” “You do. Was awful that night. Scared me shitless.”
“Fucking hell, you are a vicious little rosebud. One minute, you’re soft and inviting, the next, you’re thorns and blood.”
I was found by the edge of the woods: unwanted. Lorn. He looked at me as if I was worthy of being seen.
“I can’t fucking breathe. I ache for you, Maevyth. Believe me when I say this.”
Mates were for those who believed in fate, who gazed at the stars with a longing to capture them. He’d lived too long with the practicality of knowing the stars were too far out of reach,
The girl with the moon in her eyes and fire in her soul.
“I’ll never know what in seven hells inspired the universe to send you to me, Maevyth.” “Some might call it a punishment,” I said, smiling. “If this is punishment, then I welcome an eternity of suffering.”
