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I told him not to push me all those years ago. I warned him. This wasn’t my fault. He got himself put here.
And those exact words he’d said to me that one night.
He didn’t have any tattoos the last time I saw him. The night he was arrested.
I dropped my eyes for a moment, knowing he didn’t deserve it, but I also knew I wouldn’t have done anything differently if I could. I’d told him to stay away from me. I’d warned him.
insipid. I blinked, my expression softening as I watched them. Happy, excited, brave, wild, and in heaven. They looked seventeen.
Damon smelled like an ashtray.
And when he’s aggravated, he shows it.
someone should really tell them it wasn’t scary when you had to tell everyone how scary you were.
Will Grayson had more imagination. I’d give him that, at least.
the righteous heroes of our own story if we’re the ones telling it.”
You broke my life.
“Abuse can feel like love.”
“Starving people will eat anything.”
Will Grayson, seeing him slouched in his seat, chin on his hand, and covering a smile with his fingers.
It just sucked, and I’m pretty sure it sucked in 1955, too.
She was lucid less and less, so it was getting easier to hide this shit from her.
I was jealous.
And he and I were the eye.
lifted his mask off his face and dropped it to the floor.
dark green eyes.
“Real monsters don’t wear masks, William Grayson III,” I retorted. “They look like everyone else.”
“I was
trying to see if you liked it,” he whispered. If I liked what? Him? The chase? The danger? The risk? Well, I didn’t. But I couldn’t help but ask, “And? What conclusion did you come to?” The corner of his mouth curled into a smile, but he didn’t open his eyes, and he didn’t answer. “Go to sleep.”
Damon lying on his stomach and watching me. His
head was propped on his hand, his eyes sharp as he brought up his fingers and dragged his thumb across his throat, not blinking once as he stared at me.
white Adidas sneakers instead of heels.
She paced and paced, breathing heavier and getting worked up, but then she stopped.
You could never get much over on her.
“It’s not my fault that you wrapped your entire happiness up in some delusion you’d cooked up in your head where I loved you and life would be right as rain if we were together.”
“I intend to deserve it this time.”
her pee her pants a little,”
his hard-on for me was fucking with my patience.
They thought that because I liked being nice, that I didn’t know how to be mean. And believe me, I was capable.
Indiana Jones.”
They act like they don’t need us. I wish they knew that they did.”
I have this, so I don’t need you. I have that, so I don’t need you.
“Will we play?” I inquired. “Will you make me smile?”
he just pulled me into his arms, pressed my head to his shoulder, and wrapped his arms around me so tight, it felt like he was the one about to break, not me.
I wanted to erase myself from people’s memories and cease to exist. Just disappear.
He saw that happen to me.
He would know that I didn’t always hate him.
“Because you’re mine,” he growled in a whisper.
I knew about Will Grayson III, it was that when he was in control you should worry.
We want what we want.
Reality always disappoints.”
We’re more ourselves here than anywhere else. I get to be me...” he swallowed, staring at me, “when nightfall is coming.”
“Come here,” he said again. I absently shook my head. “Why?” “Because I’m your man.”
let him love me and protect me and all that shit he spewed—I’d just be trading one abuse for another.
“Because we want what we want, Em!
“I think you’re the one ashamed of me. That you want me. That you want this.”
