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I decided, like I pretend the bad in my life has a purpose, Royce pretends he’s this cavalier Casanova, but in my short time with him, I recognized the truth. Royce Brayshaw has a heart. It might be coated in toxic candy, but it’s there.
“Watch it, baby girl.” This girl, she either doesn’t notice, or doesn’t care. She steps into my space. “Man up, baby boy.”
“I want to be the guy a girl closes her eyes at night and sees. The one she wakes thinking about ‘cause she wants to fuck me or fuck with me, fight with me. And not because she wants to gain something or prove something, but because I’m all that she can see and she feels blind without me, even if she wishes she didn’t sometimes. I want to be her light and dark and, yeah, sometimes her fucking nightmare. A fucking king in her eyes and she’d be all those things right back, the queen in mine. Of mine.”
She smiles, and without a hint of mockery. It’s pure and true and... fuck me, it’s gorgeous. She’s gorgeous. Beautiful.
Yeah, I watched her. I constantly watch her. I can’t fucking stop.
All at once, the boys come out of their state of shock, each shouting the same exact thing at the same exact moment. “Holy shit! The fuckin’ baby!” And then Maddoc passes out.
“You make me laugh when I wanna tear shit apart.”
“For the record, as far as I’m concerned you were already mine, and baby girl... know that I’m yours.”
“I love her more than anyone has ever loved a soul. So much so I don’t even own mine anymore. She does. She said she’s inside me, and she was right. Every fucking bone in my body aches for her. I ain’t afraid to admit anymore that I will be nothing, fucking nothing, without her. I worship that girl.”
“Love me forever,” I rasp, a deep ache in my body, a heavy need for her now, her tomorrow, her every day after that. “Let me love you forever. Don’t leave me, always want me, and never stop fighting with me.”
“I love you, Brielle Bishop. More than the stars love the darkness, and you love me, too.”
“You are in my eyes,” she breathes, and my features tighten. Slowly she starts grinding her sweet spot over me. “You’re the one and only, all-ruling, all-consuming, king in mine. Of mine.”
I will be her light. And she will be my everything.
