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by
B. Celeste
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December 31, 2021 - January 1, 2022
You’re still my number one. But for how long?
I’m not sure when I realized I loved him. I think I kind of always have. When I was thirteen, he was the only one I looked forward to seeing outside the James’. He made me feel special, like I wasn’t some foster kid in a place I didn’t belong. He made me feel like I fit in.
Everett doesn’t belong to me, but to her. Issy.
I guess it’s harder to control people if they’re not close to you.
“I’m real glad to hear that, River. You deserve a home; a family.” You deserve everything.
What I do know is that I like the way she shakes for me. I love how her eyes close and her breath changes and her cheeks color into the prettiest shade of pink I’ve seen on a woman. I want to tell her it’s not just her, that I feel it too. But I don’t. I never do.
We haven’t been the same since she asked me to take her virginity, since I punched Asher Wilks for taking it, or since I saw her marred body. We’ll never be the same. After all, there was no peanut butter on her lip.
River James will always be mine, even if she doesn’t want to be. Even if she can’t be.
I’ll have River James. Even if it completely ends me.
“Is that so?” “Y-Yes.” “Don’t do that.” His mouth is right by my ear now, his breath caressing me. My breasts tingle from our closeness, aching for him to palm them like I remember him doing during our only night together. I swallow. “What?” He shifts so his arm is right against mine, trapping me between him and the wall on the other side. I can’t escape. “When your emotions get the better of you, you stutter. If you’re angry, sad … other things.” “O-Other things?” His husky chuckle is all I hear in reply.
“If the wall out front wasn’t glass, I would mark every single place I touched and kissed. You’d be a new kind of artwork. A fucking masterpiece, River.”
“I should have told you yes all of those years ago,” he whispers, his fingers skimming my neck. “I should have showed you what it’s like to be loved the right way.”