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“I don’t like it. I can’t stand it. I can’t stand anything that is not your mouth on mine. I can’t stand all the women that are throwing themselves at you. I can’t stand you being utterly oblivious of everything around you and how everyone wants you. And I can’t stand you not seeing that I want you more than anyone.”
“No, Juliette, I don’t like your hands in my hair. Pulling, tugging. I don’t like that it makes me imagine how you will do it when my mouth is all over your pussy. Eating you out. Is that an expression? I hope it is, because I want to eat you alive. I want to leave nothing for anyone else.” Katarina sucked the now-bleeding lower lip into her mouth and flicked it with her tongue, the action so suggestive, Juliette shuddered. “No, I don’t like it. I fucking love it, Juliette. I’ve fucking wanted you to do it forever. And I’ve just fucking wanted you forever.”
“You see me with the eyes of a lover. And I think you believe I’m immortal. But it’s the ovations that bestow immortality on people like us, you and I know this. It’s the love that makes us who we are. Please don’t take it away. And please be gentle. I’ve only ever given my all to the audiences and their faithful adoration. And I am giving you so much more than I have ever given ballet, Katarina.”
“I dance on your stage, I look in your mirror in your dressing room, I sleep in your bed in your apartment on your street. I have nowhere to move on, Juliette. I’ve given up trying.”
“Because you asked me to keep the light on for you, Juliette. Because you… God, you’re everything. You always have been. And love doesn’t stop even if it doesn’t know if it will ever be needed again. Love goes on, like this light. It shines without any expectation that it will serve anyone, yet it shines anyway. Hoping.”
