A Strange Hymn (The Bargainer #2)
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Read between May 17 - May 19, 2022
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“You were everything I never knew I wanted. You were chaos. You were desperation. You were the most mysterious secret I’d ever come across. Everything about you drew me in—your innocence, your vulnerability, hell, even your tragic life. You were the most captivating creature I’d ever come across.”
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I guess I now have my answer to that stupid “rhetorical” question: if a friend asked you to jump, would you? Apparently, twat-waffle that I am, I would.
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I swear I have a filter, I just don’t always use it.
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He’s my own personal brand of salvation, yet right now I get the impression he’s the one who needs saving.
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He stares at me like I’m his starlight, and he’s the darkness preparing to devour me.
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“I would steal the stars from the sky for you,” he whispers into my ear. “Anything to hear you laugh like that.”
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He’s my guilty conscience, my nightmare, my mate.
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I pull away from her. “I can’t believe you blew up a portal to the Otherworld.” “Bitch, that’s just called making an entrance.”
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“you and I both know monsters aren’t born, they’re nurtured into existence.”
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“Sacred Gardens,” I murmur as we walk under a flowering trellis and enter the wooded clearing. “That sounds like something teenage me would call my vagina.”
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“I’m not your”—he makes a face—“boyfriend—I’m neither a boy, nor particularly friendly.”
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“Things are much more fun with a little bit of rum,”
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“Who do I have to cunt punch for a little room? Move!”
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“he throws a mean right hook. That pretty-boy king went down like a boner in church.”
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“When I close my eyes, all I see is the shape of your face and the brightness of your smile. You are the stars in my dark sky, cherub.”