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“No, Maddie. I do not think we will be safe here. In fact, I think Mae has dropped us into the depths of Hell.”
“Anyone else sweating like a group’a nuns at a cucumber farm?
From being children we were forced to be with men we did not love. Would you not welcome the affections of a man whom you chose? A man who wanted you for more than just a celestial joining?”
Please Lord, give me strength to endure pain. Help me take my punishment with dignity…
I was filled with the Holy Spirit, with God’s pure love. I transcended to a place where I gave myself to Jesus. What you saw was the embodiment of my worship, of my connection to our creator.” I was gaping at her. Filled with the Holy Spirit? What. The. Fu—
“I think that love is love, no matter the flaws, or faith of the person you choose to give your heart to. We are all fallen in some way, Lilah, none of us perfect, but to feel someone’s unconditional love, surely that is all that matters in the end.”
I can’t believe the high and mighty Kyler Willis, at age twenty-seven, has fallen in love.
I fuckin’ loved the bitch. I was fuckin’ in love with the bat shit-crazy pilgrim blonde taking a shower in my bathroom right now…
“Why am I so important for you to save? I am a burden thrust upon you.” Gripping her finger, I brought it to my lips and kissed it, my chest almost exploding as I confessed, “Because I fuckin’ love you, Li… I’m fuckin’ insane over you. You ain’t no burden.”
“Ky… why?” I huffed out a laugh. “Stupid fuckin’ question, sweet cheeks,” I replied. “Like asking me the impossible. I just do. I fuckin’ love your crazy pilgrim ass.”
A fuckin’ crushingly sad smile played on Mae’s trembling lips. “You love her.”
“Then it was all worth it,” I admitted and really truly meant it. “What was, Li? What was all worth it?” “Everything…” I whispered, my pain-filled life flashing through my mind—the tortures, the loss, the segregation, the abuse… the rapes. I nuzzled into his torso and continued. “Every single second of my life… because it eventually led me to you. It led me to fall so deeply in love with you, Ky… the man who recaptured this bruised and battered heart.”
