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“I’m sorry them monsters did this to you. They took Eli, but don't worry.” Her palm flattens on my cheek, determination shining in her sparkling blue eyes. “I won’t allow them to take you, too.”
Elsa has that effect on me; she has the power to fuck up the best-laid plans ever set.
He who only knows himself and not the enemy suffers a loss for every battle won, remember?”
My monster is all tall, powerful, and beautiful. My monster is Aiden King.
“I don’t give promises I don’t keep. You’re the one who does that over and over again. I told you loving me is a one-way road. I told you not to say the fucking words if you didn’t mean them.”
I throw a glance at him over my shoulder. “I meant those words. I love you, Aiden, but I also love myself enough to walk away from you.”
“Promise you’ll marry me.” She holds out her pinkie. I curl mine around hers. “I promise.”
Someone needs to acknowledge my fantasies or I’m cutting a bitch.”
She’s all mine with a capital M. And now, she’s back.
This time, only death would do us part.
I missed his kisses and the baths he ran for me. I missed his scent and his crude words. But most of all, I missed him. The man, the monster.
Aiden is the type who loves being tested every step of the way and playing football fixes some of his cravings. Especially if it’s against worthy opponents like the horsemen.
Alicia used to say that in order to be accepted, you have to bare yourself.
Now, I’ll do whatever it takes to be accepted by her. If it means letting everything go, then so fucking be it.
“Careful, sweetheart. You’re pushing me.” “You pushed me first. You started the war first. Don’t blame me for building my forts.”
“Run and I’ll chase. Hide and I’ll conquer.” He places a chaste kiss on the corner of my mouth. “Time to make your move, sweetheart.”
You’re the only thing who breaks the endless vicious cycle.
No matter how much it’d be logical to stay away from him, I know deep down, in the dark corners of my soul, being with Aiden is the only thing that makes me whole. He completes me.
“There hasn’t been a day where I haven’t thought about you. Every time I manage to sleep, I dream of you. You were
my obsession since we were kids, but now it’s way fucking worse. I don’t know how I managed to spend eight years without you in my life when now I suffocate if I don’t see you for hours.” My eyes fill with tears. “Aiden…” “Choose me, Elsa. Choose us.”
“My intentions towards your daughter are simple,” I say with the calmest, most determined voice I can manage. “She’s mine.”
I won’t lie to Ethan. Not about this. He needs to know that I’ll fight for her. I’m ready to fight him, Jonathan, and the entire fucking world.
“I couldn’t care less about families clashing. I’ve already taken a side and it’s Elsa’s.”
That look. That spark. That stubbornness. They’re the reason why Elsa is one of a kind.
“Interesting game,” Ethan says. “Too bad someone has to lose.” My jaw clenches, easily reading the hidden meaning behind the words.
“You burnt that factory down, knowing Ethan would retaliate by harming your most precious things. But you know what? That’s not why Alicia died. She died because she was trapped in this world when her soul lived elsewhere. All she needed was you and me to root her here. You knew her needs, but you barely spared her your time. Your hunger for power and your ambition came first, and we were an afterthought.”
“He hurt you. He hurt what’s mine.” “You’re going to kill him,” I hiss. “Small price to pay for touching you.” “I hate him, too, but I’m not ready to lose you this way.” My voice is loud and clear. “He’s not worth it.” Aiden’s head tilts in my direction. His steel eyes immediately soften when they meet mine. I fall to my knees beside him, uncaring about the water soaking my skin, and grip his arm. The tight muscles ripple underneath my touch. “He’s not important, Aiden. You are.”
“I need you, sweetheart. I fucking need to be inside you like I need air.”
I need you, too.
With Aiden, I never stopped feeling alive.
“Mine.”
Bad things happen for a reason.” “Bad things happen for a reason,” he repeats, staring
between the arrow and my face before a small smile breaks on his lips.
I want to marry someone I love. Someone who flips my world upside down by just being there. Someone like Aiden.
“I can’t do an arranged marriage when I already have someone else in my heart.”
“That’s why it’s better to have no one in your heart. Those who show weakness lose.” “It depends on who you show that weakness to, Teal.”
“I chose you, Elsa.” He cuts me off, gripping the steering wheel so tightly, his knuckles turn white. “I chose you over my mother’s memory, my father, and everything I fucking know. But you never chose me.”
“I promised you’ll come over my lips while you’re sucking my cock.”
For the rest of our lives, I want to be the only one who witnesses her breaking and support her through the storm. I want to be the one who soothes her ache when she needs soothing. The one who wipes her tears when they need wiping. The one who lifts her up when she needs lifting. I want to be there for her, full stop. She’s mine. Fucking mine.
“What do you like the most about me?”
“The most?”
“You know, what do you find most se...
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I try to think about the things that turned me on the most about her. The smell of coconut in her hair when she’s freshly showered. The fluttering of her eyes when her head rolled back in an orgasm. The shape of her mouth when she called my name. The softness of her touch when she clung to me. There were too many things I find sexy and utterly irresistible about her. From the twitch in her nose to the slight bite of her lip and ...
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“Your passion, your darkness, your fire, and even your damn stubbornness. I find all of them sexy and there isn’t a thing I would change about you. So yes, everything.”
“I’m glad I met you back then,” she says after a while. “You were my light in the darkness.” My chest expands with a mixture of strange feelings. I never thought there would be a day Elsa would call me her light, even in past tense.
“What I feel for you isn’t only love, obsession, or addiction. It’s all of those and more. Do you know what that means, sweetheart? It means I can’t live without you, so don’t you fucking dare leave me.”
me. “I’m going to fucking marry you, Elsa. You’ll be my wife. My family. My fucking home.”
“You’ll be my home, too, Aiden. Always.” Always.
