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Those therapists didn’t get it. I didn’t want to heal. I wanted to burn. I wanted to bleed. I wanted to feel every scorching lick of pain.
“Those rose-tinted glasses look good on you, Sunshine.”
“Please remove your hand from my cock unless you plan on doing something with it,” Alex said coolly.
I gave into my desire—a tiny one—and traced her lips with my thumb. A shudder rolled through us, our bodies so in sync we reacted the exact fucking way at the exact fucking time.
Darkness craves light as much as it wants to destroy it,
“Alex…” “Yes, Sunshine?” He ran a gentle hand through my hair. “Kiss me.”
“You want me to take you, Sunshine?” I murmured. “Ruin you, pound you into a pathetic mess, turn you into my little fuck doll?”
Every inch of you belongs to me, and if you ever let another man touch you—” My other hand closed around her throat. “He’ll end up in pieces, and you’ll end up tied to my bed and fucked in every hole until my name is the only one you remember. Do you understand?”
“You want to fuck, we fuck. You want to date, we date. You want to call me your boyfriend, I’ll call you my girlfriend. But for now, let me take care of that needy little pussy of yours, hmm?”
“Since we’ve established that you’re a screamer,” he said. “Open your mouth.”
She died of the very thing I’d wanted to frame her for—at 4:44 a.m., no less. The unluckiest time.” My stomach lurched. 4:44 a.m. The time I awoke from my nightmares.
The man responsible for my family’s death wasn’t Michael Chen, Ava’s father. It was Ivan Volkov, my uncle.
Don’t trust anyone, Alex. It’s always the people you least expect who’ll stab you in the back.
I was a fucked-up Prometheus, suffering for eternity, except instead of having my liver eaten by an asshole eagle every day, it was my heart breaking over and over.
“I never claimed to be Prince Charming, and my love isn’t a fairy-tale type of love. I’m a fucked-up person with fucked-up morals. I won’t write you poems or serenade you beneath the moonlight. But you are the only woman I have eyes for. Your enemies are my enemies, your friends are my friends, and if you wanted, I would burn down the world for you.”
