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“You are nineteen, Cara. You’ll be twenty next summer. That’s a good age to become a wife, and mother.”
Growl was the hunter and I was the prey,
She’s yours. He was talking about me.
A princess and a monster, that’s what we were.
I wasn’t worthy. Not worth it. Not worth it. Not worth it.
“But I will find you no matter where you go. I will follow you to the end of the world.” “How romantic,” I whispered with false bravado. “You are mine.”
Hate, it had been plain on her face. She hated me. Everyone did. She feared me. Everyone did.
Fuck. She was attracted to me. I knew it.
She made me want to treat her right. She made me want to be better. She made me want so many things I shouldn’t want.
I knew that, and still I was like a moth drawn to her light. The only light that had ever penetrated the darkness that was me and my life.
“Why do you even care?” “You’re mine, and I won’t let anyone talk shit about something that belongs to me.”
“But I’m not as valuable as that piece around your wrist.” “You are worth more than anything I’ve ever owned or will ever own.”
I leaned forward and kissed her forehead.
“What am I to you?” “You are mine,” he said simply. His.
“Coco and Bandit love you,” I told her, and it wasn’t all I wanted to say, but I couldn’t.
“Luca isn’t good either, but I love him with all my heart. You just have to allow yourself to love his good parts.”
I loved his good parts and I loved his ugly parts, loved him more than I should.
“He loves you. I don’t know exactly what Luca and Growl talked about when they first met yesterday, but I have a feeling that the only reason why Luca trusts Growl is because he realized that Growl loves you. And Luca knows what love can do to a person.”
“I want you. I want you to stay with me because you want to stay. I want you to want me,” he rasped.
“I gave up hoping for something good a long time ago. It made things easier. Nothing could hurt me. Pain is nothing. People’s insults mean nothing. I cared about nothing. There was nothing I had to fear. But when I got you, I suddenly realized what kind of life I’d led. How little everything had meant. I like being with you, talking to you, sharing meals with you, walking Coco and Bandit with you, and even sharing a bed with you. I never thought I could like that kind of thing, never thought that I might need something like that, but now…” He trailed off, the uncertainty back. “Now I’m fucking
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never expected those words from Growl. Not even close. I touched his heart and cheek. “And I love you, Growl.”
“Ryan,”
“Ryan?” “That’s my real name.” “Oh,” I whispered, overwhelmed by the situation. “That’s a beautiful name.” He smiled tentatively.
“I want New York to be a new beginning for me and you, if you want that too. And I want to be known as Ryan in this new life.” “And I want a new beginning with you, Ryan,” I said. He wrapped his arms around me and held me tightly. “I don’t deserve you,” he murmured against my hair. “But I will.”
“I want to marry you,” he rasped. “And I want to marry you,” I said quietly.
