Desperate Run

by C.J. Riggs

“You only bleed for me.”

“Don’t remove your sock, I’ll be right back.” Just as I stand, she asks. “Why? Why can’t I remove my sock?” “Because no one can look at your toes but me. Leave it, or else.”

“It’s because beauty is comparable, where you are not. You are my version of perfection, which no one can compare to.”

“La muerte me beso y me senti como en el cielo... lo que queda demi eres tu.”

“So what if the guy you might like is a fucking nutcase. At least you have the real-life book boyfriend thing going on.”

Being blinded by rage is dangerous, but that is what I am: dangerous.

“A reminder to you, and warning to those that will hurt you, even with their words. Death is all that awaits them.”

“I’ll provide you a loaded gun to end my life, because death is the only thing that will separate me from you.”

“And even then, I’ll wait for you to join me in the afterlife where I’ll continue to hunt you, ma proie.”

“I want to teach you how to make Shade attack on command.” Her eyes round. “It’s easy, and extremely important. If I am, for some reason, unable to be with you, Shade will be by your side. He will kill for you, as I have.”

“Stay with me, please, Petit Mouton. I’ll give you the world. I’d crawl on broken hands and legs to give you it all.”

“One second or fifty years, my decision wouldn’t change.”