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This is the first time I’ll keep someone close. Not because I want her close, but because I’ll untangle her piece by each bloody piece.
“Pain.” His strong voice echoes around my dizzy head like a sinister, dark promise. “That’s what you need, Aurora. Lucky for you, I have plenty to give.”
I need out of this room. It should’ve been destroyed a long time ago, but I kept it as a reminder of what it feels like to lose. Since then, all I’ve ever done is win.
She might share Alicia’s physical appearance, but she’s nothing like her sister. Aurora is a fire where Alicia was earth. Deep and silent and everyone could step on her. Aurora would burn anyone before they even attempted to.
“The only reason you haven’t been owned before is because I hadn’t come along yet.”
“You have to endure it to get past it, Aurora. That’s how it works.”
It’s the first time in my life that I want to keep something instead of destroying it to pieces.
It’s a single moment in time. Something that happens with no prior planning, but in this second, I decide something I’ve never thought about in my life. Aurora or Clarissa or whatever name she goes with is now fucking mine. Literally. Figuratively. In every sense of the word.
“You’ll stop doing that. Effective immediately.” “Doing what?” “The red lipstick. Coming here the entire time. Noticing that he grew muscles. All of it. Be a stranger.” He’s jealous.
