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“Now, lift up your beautiful face and show everyone in the room they can take nothing away from you. No matter what. Never apologize for how others react to your strength.”
didn’t want me to be a subservient wife. He wanted me as their queen.
His love had all been a loan. And it was time for me to pay back my debt.
“You are like fire, Brex. People try to put you out, but you come back with a roar,”
Now I would never have the chance to be with him. All because fear and misunderstanding kept both of us silent to what we really wanted.
Prisons thrived on breaking people down and rebuilding them. Maybe it worked for others—bad people. But when you broke down good people, we didn’t rise again as even nicer people. No. That’s not how it worked. We rose like a dragon, one that would spew fire and burn everything to ash. We became the depraved.
They wanted to rip the humanity out of me? I hoped they were ready for what they asked for.
“Give them glory in your death or in your killing.”
“There’s not a word I could find in this language that could define you.”
You hold on to him because he’s safe. But it’s not you. Not anymore, princess. You are feral and dangerous. A monster that can’t be caged. There is a wildness inside that won’t be tamed.
Going in innocent, considering myself tough, but I came out of Halalhaz as the monster they created. Feral and dangerous. And I wouldn’t be tamed.
There are very few people who find someone who challenges them, makes them feel alive, fights and loves with the same passion.”
