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Dylan Page
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January 10 - January 10, 2025
I can’t let him find out about Keenan…
I feel like the man, who was once my faithful guardian and protector, is now transforming into my dark demon.
Shay used to soothe my fears. Now… he is the root of them.
“You’re my girl, Mina,” he murmurs, at last while reaching out with his free hand to cup my face, “it’s
time you fully embrace that.” He takes a step closer, forcing me to spread my legs so he can stand between them. “Now open your mouth and take me in.”
Keenan… do it for him. Protect him. Keep him safe. Keep him safe, Mina.
“Don’t be nervous, Sweetness,” he says in a rough whisper as he gazes down at me, “This is how it’s supposed to be between us.” He reaches up, pressing two fingers to my racing pulse on my neck, the corners of his mouth rising ever so slightly. “I just want you to be with me, Mina. Stop fighting it. Just be good and do as I say, and I’ll fucking love you with all that I have. I’ll make you feel good.”
“I want you to crave me like a drug. I want you to beg me to fuck you. And I will. Because it is the most right and the most honest thing that I can do, to show you how I feel about you. That I love you. I always have, and I always will.”
“You’re a good girl, you know that?” He breathes against my skin, his movements picking up the pace a bit more now. “That’s all you have to do, Mina. Be good. Do as I say, and everything will be perfect. Okay? No more bullshit. No more fighting us. You do as I say, and we’ll all be happy. I know it. I know it…”
Now that Keenan was safe, I needed to get the fuck out of here… I needed to save myself.
Keenan is safe. Now, I need to protect myself. I had to run.
I was back in my caged world. And this time… I wasn’t getting away.
“I’m done giving you time,” he murmurs, his cool reserve now shifting to something else, something menacing and unstable. “I am done waiting.
You brought this on yourself, do you understand me? Say you understand.” When I remain silent, his hand painfully grips a fistful of my hair and he gives me a shake. “Say, ‘I understand, Shay.’” “I-I understand, Shay,” I hiccup through my tears. “Say, ‘I will do what you tell me, Shay.’” “I will do what you tell me, Shay,” “Say that you are mine!” I swallow back the lump in my throat and whisper, “I’m yours.”
To protect him… you must surrender. To protect him… you must surrender. To save Key, I need to completely submit to Shay.
For years I’d been trying to help him fight his demons, but now? He’s forcing me to
dance with them instead.
“You’ve never been a fucking toy, Mina…” he practically growls at me, “You’ve just been mine. You always have been, from the very first time that I held you in my arms and looked at you. I felt it then, even if I didn’t understand it. You were always meant to be mine.”
His eyes are shining,
his mouth slightly open, and he’s looking up at me with a sort of euphoric expression. I’m his world.
“I want you to have a place where you feel safe. Where I can keep you safe,”
This isn’t love, that voice cries louder now. He can’t truly love you for you while he’s trying to mold you into what he wants.
Does he ever let you do what YOU want, Mina? Or what HE wants?
Shay has killed people because of his “love” for you. Do you remember that?
Shay’s demons will never harm me. But no one else is safe. I could only do so much to protect everyone else. But I can’t save everyone.
“All I’ve ever wanted was you, Mina. Even before I understood how much… why the fuck would I throw that away for some nothing when I have the only thing my heart cherishes right here, waiting for me?”
“I never dreamed I would fall in love with you.”
“You love him, don’t you?”
“Are you fucking kidding me?” “I do, I can’t help it, but I do.”
“The only reason you feel this attachment to him is because he has isolated you from anyone else who cares!”
“I started to care for you more and more as the years went on, Mina. I truly did. I wanted to see you get the fuck out of here and live a dream. Because I never had a fucking chance.”
My moments with you were my time of peace.”
“I didn’t mean to fall in love with you.
“I’m so fucking sorry, Key… for everything that’s happened.” “It’s not your fault,”
“I can’t help that I love him…”
“Either way, I’m here, Sunshine. If you change your mind, ever, I’ll still g...
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“I just wanted her. I didn’t want her to leave me.”
You are a shadow of the girl you once were.”
you do love him, and he wants what’s best for you. As much as I fucking hate the fact that you snuck around with this guy under my nose without me knowing it, and I want to blow his goddamn brains out with my gun, I can tell that he loves you too. And that’s why I can’t approve of you being with Shay. Because he doesn’t want what’s best for you. He wants you to be what he needs.”
“I swear on your
beautiful, brave mama, little girl. I won’t let anything happen to the man who loves you.”
“You weren’t supposed to get hurt, Mina…”
“What the fuck is wrong with you? Are you fucking insane?”
“YES! I am! I’m fucking crazy. I’m out of my mind!”
You came and breathed life into my dying lungs. And she was going to take the one person I cared about most in the whole fucking world away!”
“You killed people. You isolated me from anyone and everyone else so I had no one, either, Shay. You stole my dreams away!” “I just wanted you-” “Shay, you’re fucking killing me!”
“I’ve always been selfish with you. I broke you. I never wanted this. And now, I’m going to let you go, because it will keep you safe.”
Take me back to the night we met... Click.
