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DEATH IS A debt we are all born owing. It’s something that money can’t buy nor can it be traded. You can’t bargain for more time. When it’s up, you accept it like a fucking man. I’ve never been afraid to die. Or to love, for that matter. Aren’t they the same? You surrender to a fate you have no control over. You don’t get to choose when or how you die, just as you can’t choose when and who you fall in love with.
I wrapped my hand around her throat, and she begged me to breathe. She stabbed me in the heart and demanded I bleed. She might as well have been fucking poison, but I would have drunk her anyway.
Honey, I’m the closest to hell you can get.
What the fuck did I do? You just fucked Demi, and she was right. It was better than Becky.
Placing the end of the Sharpie in my mouth, I bite on the lid to remove it and write. Dear Sis, I gave him something you never could—innocence.
“I don’t need permission to take what I already own.”
“Oh, I have every intention of hurting you.”
A beautiful mess and a demon.
“You may be gorgeous, baby, but your sister is the one I plan on fucking tonight.”
“I’m gonna kill him.” My heart begins to pound at his words. “Why?” I can’t help but ask. His blue eyes move from the cut to my eyes. His jaw sharpens when he says. “Because he touched you. And I am the only man allowed to touch you.”
“She wanted to tame you. I want to see what you can do. I wanna see the real you. All of you. I know I could never win against you, Deke, but I don’t want you to hide. Not from me.”
She was once nonexistent to me. Just like she was to everyone else. But I see her now. And she’s the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen.
“You’re mine, and I’m yours. Neither Becky nor your mother are going to change that.”
“I’m not gonna kill you, Becky.” She whimpers. “Death would be too easy for you. No, instead, I’m gonna spare your miserable, pathetic life.” My fingers tighten, gripping her cheeks. “Instead, you will watch your sister get the love that you always wanted.” Her bloodshot eyes widen. “You’ve already seen me fall in love with her. And you’ll live to watch me marry her and her have my children. You’ll watch her be everything you wanted to be.”
