Proserpina entered the chapel with a crown of flowers on her head. The knot eased; it untangled some. And when Saint Sebastian decided that Proserpina needed someone to walk her down the aisle and he hopped up to take her arm, Auden quite literally could not breathe for a second. He didn’t know why—Saint Sebastian irritated him, Proserpina fascinated him, but he wasn’t entirely sure he liked her for having that effect on him—so why now, when the two of them approached the altar and drew near him, did he think of the need to hurt and the need to be hurt and why did he want to grab them both and
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