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For those who seek a home. May you find it, and when you do, may it be sturdy and warm.
“You are a sprig of mint in a fetid mouth. You are the balm that soothes the lash of his cruelty.
I gave him a full smile. He stopped us. “Again.” “Again, what?” “Smile like that again.”
He had never known what it felt like to be bent by someone else’s will.
“I have a deep hatred for the man.” “Then take me from him.” His gaze shot to mine. My words tumbled forth in one desperate breath. “Nothing would hurt him more than to lose what he considers his.”
I have no desire to be like you—” I jabbed a finger against his chest. “To scrape myself empty for others and call it noble.”
There were many misguided things I desired, and I suspected it would always be so. Just as sure as I was made of flesh and blood and bone and sea, I was also made of want.
“Every time the king has healed me, he’s touched me.” “Oh. Well.” Agatha’s lips curled into a knowing smile. “I can’t imagine why.”
Agatha is the only one who has ever cared for me in earnest, and even she looked after me in exchange for compensation.”
“The end of transactions. We came to a deal, yes, but that is done. I offer my care now because I choose to.”
“I called you a gnat, and I detest myself for it. I am the bug. A moth. And you are the moon. Drawing me, pulling me. But I’ll never be able to reach you without destroying myself. All I can do is pray for the day.”
“Lay a hand on my wife and you’ll lose it.” Theodore gripped the hilt of the dagger.
“There are no more transactions between us, remember?” he said in a husky whisper. “You’re deserving because I say you are.”
“But she is not yours to take from. She is mine.”
“You fill my every sense. You stalk my waking mind. You make up the entirety of my dreams.
But if you are to devastate me, then let it be completely. Lay waste to me and everything that’s mine. A life without you in it is not one I wish to lead.”
“You have shone a light on me. You made me feel fury and terror and joy and longing. How do I curl myself back into the darkness after being so alive?”
The absence of you has shown me that, if you will let me, I will happily carve myself open again and pour you back inside me.
