Den of Vipers
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It’s been a whole two days since I got to kill someone, and I’m getting restless.
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He knows what I am—death. Ryder might be the face, Garret might be the enforcer, the muscle, and Kenzo the dealer…but me? I’m the fucking Grim Reaper.
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Diesel’s face splits with a grin. “I think I’m in love. Do you think she would shoot me if I ask?”
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I know how to read people, but Ryder? He’s made it a fucking game, a sport, to find people’s weaknesses and exploit them, destroy them with what he learned.
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They’re going to learn that money can’t buy obedience. I’m no man’s object.
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Vipers? Bitch, please, I bite too.
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When you’re a kid, they tell you stories of monsters hiding under your bed or in the dark. They don’t tell you of the very real human ones. Those who prey on people weaker than them, or even the monsters that hide within ourselves.
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If you’ve never had a parent let you down, hurt you, and break your heart, then you don’t know how it feels. They’re supposed to protect you, love you, yet my parents are the reason I’m scared. I learned from a young age that they’re the ones who hurt me, no one else. They don’t care if I live or die,
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Their parents love them, treasure them, shower them with gifts and happiness. Why can’t I have that? Yet even if my dad or mum ever tried to, I would flinch, expecting the punch that would come right after it.
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She might not survive it, but I will have her.
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Diesel is a fucking mad dog, Ryder is an arrogant asshole, and Kenzo is a charming psychopath…I can’t figure Garrett out.
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yes please. But also, fuck no at the same time.
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But she doesn’t move, doesn’t fight me...because she wants it. She wants my brand of control. She wants to surrender to me. She wants to be consumed by me, and I want that too.
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Good girl.
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“You want my control, my coldness, love. Because without it, you wouldn’t survive me,”
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Show me what you’re so scared of, what you don’t show anyone else, and if it kills me? So fucking what.
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No one will miss me.” That’s a fucking lie, I would. I would miss her so much, it sends a pang through my icy heart. To never hear her laugh again, to never see her challenge me, defy me…no. I would miss her.
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Fuck, she’s going to kill me, and I might even let her.
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It’s my duty to protect them…but how can I when I want to burn in her flame?
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her venom is racing through my veins, telling me that she’s exactly where she’s meant to be, and so am I. Changing me, mending me, freeing those emotions I hold back from everyone.
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today, I’ll put my careful walls back up and slip into a suit, changing back to the cruel leader of the Vipers, but here and now, with her sleeping against my chest, our legs entwined and fingers laced tog...
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you can stop trying to choke or kill me…okay, maybe the kill me part. Feel free to choke me any time, it’s pretty hot actually.”
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I won’t be her saviour, I’ll be her sinner.