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This book is dedicated to my kids, because they had to live on cereal and toast until I finished it. And to my husband, who made the cereal and toast because he can’t cook anything else. *I’m joking. Please don’t call child services on me.*
Saskia Royal is complicated as fuck, but the hurdles that she is throwing out at me is only training my stamina, and when I finally reach that finish line, she better fucking run.
Beauty only neutralizes the evil in a person. It blinds people with its surface to conceal the darkness that swims beneath it.
Love is not guaranteed, and the hardest thing the human heart will withstand is dealing with the loss of someone who is still alive.
I shake my head. “You’re sounding a lot like a jealous ex-girlfriend, Maya. Please return back to your allocated seating. It’s in the friends’ section.”
Kenan. I swear to fuck everything slows as her hair blows around her face when she laughs. She is fucking crippling. The beauty of Saskia was placed on this earth specifically from God to taunt me for all my wrongdoings. Only Saskia isn’t from heaven.
“If you tell me that you’re insecure because of another man, Saskia, I’ll kill him.”
His lips graze over my ear, my focus going straight to Killian again. The flame from the fire manages to reflect all of the sharp angles of his face. “If you don’t get off my lap in three seconds, I’m going to drag you back to our RV with Kenan in tow, and we’ll both fuck you until your fingernails are embedded into my wall. Trust me, baby girl, there are plenty there to show you…”
“You know, I watched them all slowly climb out from your room this morning, and they reminded me of stray cats.”
If Saskia was the spawn of Satan, she was obviously his favorite.
“If you’re carrying the weight of the world on your shoulders, then you better use that weight as the material in which you build your life with.”
Sometimes protecting ourselves means hurting ourselves in the process.
For the first time I see what everyone else sees when they look at us.
I know why people love getting tattoos now. It’s therapeutic.
Kaius removes his mask and tilts his head to study my tattoo. His eyes fly up to Killian, his head shaking. Kyrin walks up to the plank next as I’m climbing off and I watch as his tilts too. He slowly grins. “That cheeky motherfucker.”
Property of Trickster. Was tattooed in cursive text above my Kiznitch star.
“Are you going to go yell and throw shit at him?” Kenan asks just as Perse comes up behind us. “Because if I get to pick what you throw, I’d say fire would be good.”
He captioned it Tell her she’s pretty or I’ll kill you.
Merica sighs. “The mistakes you make when you’re young are what help you grow as an adult, and how you deal with those mistakes as you get older, is what molds you into a woman. It’s all a fucking ploy.”
Our souls recognized each other when my memories did not. Maybe that’s why it’s called soulmates, because they see each other even when the human eye cannot.
Spinning around but remaining in his arms, I rest my head against his chest as we listen to Delila’s plans.
Delila runs her perfectly manicured finger down the side of his face. “We knew she would fall in love with him.”
“Fuck,” he grunts, catching the tear with his thumb and bringing it to his mouth to lick it off. “Yeah, babe, I am, I’m the fucking worst. But to beat the monsters, one must become one.”
“People are only lost because they don’t have anyone willing to find them.”
“What do you want from me!” My throat swells as defeat slowly bleeds into my veins. My shoulders sag as the release I’m fighting begins to win, the rope from the tug of war that we’ve been struggling with finally about to snap. He presses against me until my back slams against the RV. “Isn’t it obvious?” The corner of his mouth tips up, his dimple sinking into his cheek. “You.”
“The biggest fuckin’ lie that the world tells us is that family is what matters. Fuck that. Blood only stains the way you see toxicity.
Perse grins. “So she is yours?” My eyes snap to hers as a round of chuckles sound off behind me. I flip them all off. “Don’t act like you all didn’t already know.”
“Fucking be selfish, baby. Take me. Hell, just tell me where the fuck to go and I’ll follow willingly. You don’t have to be selfish with anything else, Saskia, but you will always be selfish with me.”
“Because I’m yours.” She flushes, sucking her bottom lip into her mouth. “Thought you weren’t into monogamy.” I keep my eyes on hers. “I wasn’t, until I met someone who made me not want to be with anyone else.”
“I can’t promise you that I won’t make mistakes. I’ve never had a girlfriend before, and well, my relationship with my mother is fucking fragile. Those are red flags alone, and I know that, but—” I need to fucking breathe, but my chest isn’t working. She inches closer, waiting for my next words. “And I know that I’ve done some fucked up things. I will do more fucked up things in the future too, because this is who I am, and I won’t change. I can’t change. You don’t have to forgive me right now for your dad, or even for Hope, but I still need you to know that I’ll wait.”
I continue. “I’ll fucking wait for you for as long as I need to, because time doesn’t tick unless you’re in my arms.”
“What, so the two villains in each other’s story won’t get a happily ever after?” I joke, winking down at her. She smiles softly. “I guess the story is still being written.”
The fucking villain in my story who stole my black fucking heart.
The tattoo on her back. I didn’t need to ink her to claim her, she smells of me, bleeds me. Everything that she is, is me. But damn, that tattoo is sexy as fuck.
“But if you try to fill that space with another man, I’ll kill him, and then fuck you over top of his rotting corpse before sending him back to his family members piece by piece. Comprende?”
I can tolerate anything said about me, but you go after Saskia and I’ll lose it.
It’s not who we are and we’re okay with that. Love is a destination that not many have the opportunity to find. Everyone’s road is paved differently, and we all have dissimilar paths that lead off of it. Every choice you make will be the deciding factor on whether you reach your destination or not.
