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“And besides, I’m not committing, I’m… testing the waters.” “By performing high treason? That’s a reasonable first step in a relationship. Really frames the romance in a nice light, you know?”
“You’re going to have to let me go, Elas.”
awwww the besties
Bathed in the afternoon sun, his hair that looked brown inside has transformed into a dirty blonde, each strand shimmering with a golden light. It’s fitting that he’s a walking ray of sunshine.
“That rule doesn’t apply to you. You won’t take advantage of me.” “If I did, I’d make sure you enjoyed it.” My eyes flicker down his frame, and his blush burns all the way down his neck.
ayeeeeee
“Do I need to make some bodies disappear?” I ask, and he snorts a sound that straddles the line between amused and shocked. “Because I have my ways.”
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“What’s keeping me from reaching perfection?” He smiles as he takes a giant bite of his brownie. “Rumor has it you waddle like a penguin.”
lmfaoooo
urging anyone with glowing skin to report to the nearest military medical facility. That one was wild.
“I’ve killed for much less, August. Don’t forget that even though we’ve adapted to your world and your kind, we are not human. I’ll rip the head from his body for even looking at you the wrong way, and I won’t regret it for a second.”
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“Did it make you mad to see his hands on me? Doing what you haven’t done?” His hand drops to the table, only inches from mine, and his fingers flex against the wooden top. “Because you’ve never touched me, have you?”
“Elas?” “Yeah, doc?” “You really do have a beautiful smile,” he mumbles,
“I swear that if I ever get mad at you, even if we fight, we’ll always find our way back to each other.”
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“I couldn’t get you out of my mind after we met. The smiling, gentle-souled man stuck inside that jail. You were so out of place in there… the only color in that whole room. Everyone else was black and white, while you had an entire fucking sunny day shining off you.” He laughs again, this one reaching his eyes. “Fuck, doc, you told me it was nice to meet me. And you meant it.”
“Doc’s got a big dick, huh?”
lmfaooooooo
“I’m yours?” he finally asks. “Yes. You are mine, and I am yours.”
“You weren’t what they needed you to be because you weren’t theirs. They were just placeholders while you found your way to me.”
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“Fuck,” he mutters, crashing his lips to mine in a clumsy kiss. “That’s what you want? To be mine?” I pull back with a gentle smile, one that's full of sincerity and overflowing with emotion. “If we’re telling the truth, El? I think I’ve been yours for a while now.”
Where you go, I go… and if we go, we go. We run.”
“Don’t worry about me.” “That’s like asking me not to breathe, baby.”
swoon
“Come back to me, doc.” “Always,” I whisper,
swoooooon ugh
“They believe the mark changes when both sides have accepted the bond. The final step in the mating process.”
“Fates be damned, August. I’ve been falling for you since before we ever touched. Maybe it has nothing to do with these marks, and maybe it has everything to do with them. Maybe none of that matters. All I know is I want you.”
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“Ever since you walked into that prison and smiled at me, you’ve had me. So have me, Elas. Make me yours.”
“I want everything you have to offer. Those imperfect pieces that you hide from the world, and the messy ones that aren’t always put together. I want them all, August. All of you.”
“You’re amazing,” he whispers, placing a soft kiss on my hair. “You are everything I ever wanted, and everything I never knew I could have.”
“Elas?” His lips graze mine and he pulls back, waiting. “What does it feel like to be in love?” Those endlessly dark eyes search mine for a long moment. “I think it feels a lot like this,” he finally says, and then he kisses me, and nothing else matters.
“I love you, El,” he whispers. “I love you, too.”
“No, August. There’s nothing in this world that would ever make me regret this.” He twitches again, and I glance over to find a tiny smile playing on his lips. “Even without the mark, you were always meant to be mine.”
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“You never have to fear me,” I finally say, and August squeezes my hand. “But if the day comes that you meet that part of me… the part that should terrify you… I just hope you still love me on the other side.”
“Thank you for saving me,” I whisper, and he hugs me tighter, something warm and light seeming to flow between us and causing my mark to buzz in response. “You’ve got it all wrong, doc,” he says, pressing a tender kiss to my hair. “You’re the one who saved me.”
“You are the piece of me that has always been missing, August.” He doesn’t hide his affection, even with Reyes in the backseat pointedly trying to ignore us. He’s proud of our love. Unapologetic. “Prophecy be damned. You are the light in my darkness,”
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“Nyx has been in captivity since the veil fell. He was test subject number one.”
“I like them because they’re different,” Reyes continues. “Everyone else was always drawn to the colorful flowers. The pinks and yellows that stood out and demanded attention. This one was quiet, though—sitting in the shade of the forest and waiting to be seen.”
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But August is light, and I could never dim that glow. I’ve lived in the darkness, and as it turns out, a life in the dark is no life at all.
