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For the ones with the hardest shells and the softest hearts.
It seems all gifts come with a price.
For a moment, I wish I was the good guy and not the villain. Or maybe with Mildred, I don’t have to choose. Maybe I could be both.
“Aside from the sandwich incident, he’s actually a decent guy,” Nate says.
Beautiful, smart, sassy, and slightly broken—she’s all my favorite things.
“Imagine always being on the outside of everything—your family, your team, your social circle. Never fitting anywhere. How impossible would it be to believe you could belong?”
“We’re all wearing masks, aren’t we? Hiding the parts we don’t want people to see.”
“It’s a nickname. Mildred is pretty spot on, considering my profession, and Dred makes me feel like less of a nerdy librarian and more like I belong on some secret superhero squad.”
“I think you’re so used to being the scapegoat that you’ve forgotten you can be something else.”
“Don’t worry, Connor. I’ll be a good little menace.”
“You’re trying to upstage me with this tux.” He winks. “I could never.” “But you tried.” We both smile, and it feels…right somehow that this serious, broody man is making jokes with me at the altar.
“Why didn’t you just tell me that in the first place?” “Because it’s not your problem to solve.” He raises his chin and looks down at me with assessing, arrogant eyes. “I’m your husband. You’re my wife. If you have a problem, I have a problem.”
I think I could love him, if he would let me.
“Well, he told me, and Dred knows, too. That was an amazing thing to do, you fucking dickbag.”
“Pull your sleeves down!” Mildred’s tone is chastising as she tugs the black fabric until my tattoos and my bracelet proclaiming me as Mildred’s Sweet Villain are hidden. “The arm porn is too much for these women. Have a heart.”
I’m her sweet villain and she’s my little menace. We belong to each other until the end of forever. And that might just be long enough.
