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But you gotta try to just hang on, ya know? I know all this shit is tearing you apart, but don’t let it drag you under.”
She licks her lips, absorbing my words, the glimpse of her tongue making my cock twitch. “All right, then. I’m all yours,” she says with a daring lilt. “Make me forget, if you think you can. Make me want to live again. I’ve tried everything else.”
He looks shattered and I have to admit, a part of me likes it. I want to see him suffer. Maybe not a lot, but a little. He can’t walk away from this unscathed. I can’t let him. I won’t get out of this without scars, so neither should he.
But if he knew everything about me, would he still be standing here loving me? Or would he feel like I do right now—torn to shreds?
“I never meant to hurt you. All I’ve wanted was for you to be happy and safe and to fucking love me just a little.”
“My daughter was the sun in my life. She brightened my days. And I lost her. But you . . . you became the moon and stars in my dark nights. Your love is like a fire that burns into my soul. I can't lose you, too."
If you keep doing what you’ve been doing, you’ll keep getting what you’ve been getting.
I couldn’t be more proud of her for following her dreams. Even if she doesn’t come back to me, I still want her to be happy.
“We wait for love to come to us when the time is right; we don’t make love wait for us to decide.”
“I miss you so fucking much, Tabi. But I’ve been good while you’ve been gone. If you came back, I wanted you to come back to something better, something you deserve.”
I realized Vandal’s intentions, although deceptive, were not to hurt me, but to give me something back—and all he had to offer was himself. How could I hate him for that? Wasn’t he loving me in his own way the entire time? Everyone makes mistakes, even horrible ones. But that doesn’t mean they don’t deserve to be loved.
They say a relationship can’t last if its built on lies, but I refuse to believe that. Maybe the truth doesn’t always matter, and protecting someone from heartache is more important. I believe that fate brought us together, so we could love and heal each other in the way we each needed the most, and to me, that’s all that matters.
Our love will never be pretty. It will always be tarnished by the past. Those ghosts will always haunt us. We are both so damaged by our pasts, by ourselves, by our lies, and by each other. It’s who we are, and it’s bound us together forever.
