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Because in his arms, I experience something I have never felt before. A primitive and completely irrational sense of belonging.
“Yes, exactly. You’re completely mine. I’m the only one who’s ever been inside your pretty little pussy.”
The devil does indeed wear a beautiful mask.
“Will you ever let me go?” I already know the answer, but I need to hear him say it anyway. “No, Nora,” he replies, and I can feel his smile in the darkness. “Never.”
“Life is nothing more than a fucked-up roulette,” she says softly, “where the wheel keeps spinning and the wrong numbers keep coming up. You can cry about it all you want, but the truth of the matter is that this is as close to a winning ticket as it gets.”
There is no light without darkness, Nora; the night ultimately catches up with us all.”
“You’re mine, Nora,” he says harshly, his large body dominating me, arousing me. “You belong to me, do you understand? Each and every single part of you is mine.”
I know he would always come for me. I know he would kill for me. I know he would die for me.
Love. It’s not the sweet, tender kind of love I always dreamed of, but it’s love. Dark, twisted, and obsessive, it’s both a compulsion and an addiction. I know the world will condemn me for my choices, but I need Julian as much as he needs me.
