She may have loved me, but I never loved her. Losing her never felt like being dismembered or having the blood drained right from your body, creating a loneliness unlike anything I’ve ever known. It never felt like spending your life as a sinner and finally getting a taste of heaven, only to have it ripped right out from beneath your fingertips. But it takes a woman like Elena to elicit feelings like that. It requires kindness and warmth. Not the kind of fires lit just for the hell of it but the flames that flourish with passion and understanding and just a touch of darkness. It’s Elena’s
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