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“You fuckin’ count, Raven. Count more than anyone else.”
“Look at you, Raven. Look at who you are. If you could only see the way I see you. You are brave and strong. So goddamn beautiful. A bloom in the middle of the darkest night.”
Needed to see your face because you’re the only thing in this world that keeps me sane. Only thing that grounds me to reality when I feel it slipping.
“You wouldn’t want to see me obsessed, Raven.”
“You are brave. So goddamn brave. Look at you, the way you smile and shine all your beauty into this world. Spreading joy like it’s gushing out of you. It’s a better fuckin’ place because of you, Raven Tayte.”
“And you, Moonflower, through all the horrible shit you’ve had to endure. Through the abuse. Through living on the streets. Through…”
“In the darkest night, you bloomed.”
“It’s where I want to be, Raven. Right here with you whenever you need me.”
“Then stay. You make it better, Otto.”
“Would be the luckiest man alive, getting to touch you. But I swore to myself a long time ago that I would never hurt you, and I fuckin’ meant it.”
“Don’t think it’s possible for someone not to love you, Raven Tayte.”
“Just want you happy and safe, Raven, and if that’s what moving out makes you, then I support you. I’ll always support you. Will always love you. And I want you to know how damned proud I am of everything you’ve accomplished.”
“I couldn’t have done it without you.”
“Because when you look at it, I want you to see the way I see you. I want you to see this brave, strong, smart girl who’s amazing. Who’s a fighter. Who even when she’s scared, she knows that she’s going to rise above it.”
“You were born for this, Raven. Fuckin’ perfect on those feet.”
“Born to dance with you.”
“I do. I love getting to have experiences through other people’s eyes. Things that I might not ever experience for myself. It’s different than when you’re watching TV. It’s like you’re there.”
“I read these stories because I want to be swept away. Because I want to imagine this happening to me. And every time, I wish it was you.”
“I touch myself, wishing it was you. It’s you. It’s always you.”
“You deserve the whole fuckin’ world, Raven Tayte. To be loved and adored. Touched in every way you want to be. But I’m not that guy.”
“Don’t worry. I’m going to make my moonflower come. Right now. Going to watch her blossom in the night. Can’t wait to watch you glow.”
“It’s my breath that’s gone. Seeing you like this. Touching this face that has followed me into every dream. Being with the only person who could ever save me from the nightmares. The only one that ever made me feel safe. The one who made me sure I wanted to discover what it is like to be taken. Completely and fully.”
“How, when this is the way it’s supposed to be? It’s always been you, Otto. You have always been my safe place. My secret place.”
“I wish I could be more, Raven. Wish I could be everything.”
“Nah, Moonflower. You are the epitome of strength. I just don’t think the rest of us really know what that means.”
“You think I wouldn’t stand in front of every bullet for you? Take every blow for you? Suffer any consequence?”
“It’s not your place.”
“Isn’t it? Isn’t standing for you what I’m supposed to do? Isn’t it what I’ve always been meant to do?”
“Tell me to stop. Tell me not to touch you. Tell me you don’t want this,” I demanded.
“The only thing I’ve ever wanted is for you to touch me. Haven’t you heard my body begging for it?”
“You think carrying you three feet is gonna hurt me?”
“You think these arms weren’t made to hold you? You think I’m not made to carry every-fucking-thing that you are?”
“You’re already mine, Raven. You’re already mine.”
“You want me to tell you that was the best thing I’ve ever felt? You want to hear me say that every time you walk into Moonflower, I imagine you propping me on the counter and doing the same thing? You want to hear that I wear dresses in the hopes that one day you’ll walk in and push it up over my hips and drop to your knees so you can peel me out of my underwear?”
My moonflower that had forever shined in the night.
There was no forgetting Raven Tayte because no matter how painful it was, this woman was carved on my heart and written in my soul.
“You wear this dress on purpose, Little Moonflower?”
“I never believed for a second that you would let anyone get to me.”
“I won’t. I promise you I won’t let anyone get to you. Promise I’ll stand in the fire.”
“That’s what I want, Otto. I want you to stand in t...
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“I’m not what you need, Raven.” It fucking hurt saying it. Thinking of some squirrely motherfucker’s hands on her. Sharing meals with her. Curling up with her at night. Putting a baby in her belly. Lucky bastard getting to live in this tight, hot body.
“Do you think I don’t know the things you’ve done? Do you think I don’t understand this life? Do you think I don’t understand the cost? Do you think I don’t see that you’re scarred and carry the burden of setting people free? Do you think I don’t know that always comes with a price?”
“I’m finished pretending, Otto. I’m finished pretending about the way I feel about you. This either begins tonight or it ends tonight.”
“I might be inexperienced, Otto. I might have been wounded so deep that I’ve been terrified of letting anyone get close to me, but you are the only one who’s ever been able to do it. The only one I’ve wanted right next to me.”
“I love you, Otto.”
“I love you so much, and I have my entire life. And it’s not infatuation or hero worship or bred of this trauma. It is what my heart knows. It’s my truth. And if it’s not yours, then I’ll accept it. I’ll walk away and I’ll never look back. But the one thing I’m asking right now is for you not to lie to me. Don’t be a coward and give me some camouflaged truth. Tell me what you feel when you look at me.”
“You want to know how I feel, Raven? You want to know if my heart fuckin’ bleeds every time I look at you? You want to know if I toss at night thinking about holding you in my arms?”
“You are the first thought I have when I open my eyes in the morning and the last one before I go to sleep. You are the thunder in my veins and the chaos in my spirit. You are everything I want and the one thing I’m not supposed to have.”
“What I feel for you is endless, Raven Tayte. So, you want me to tell you ex...
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“It means I’m so fuckin’ in love with you, so fuckin’ gone for you, that there’s no chance my world could spin right without you in it. So fuckin’ in love with you that I feel like I’m ripping apart every time...
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