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I will wear blood on my hands proudly for as long as you wear that ring on your finger.”
The things you didn’t share defined you. Your secrets shaped you. And when you shared them, it was akin to carving out the most rotten and sour parts of yourself and placing them on a platter.
“Keep going, Sienna,” he said, voice iron. “I’m not going to let you fucking stop until you’ve told me everything about yourself. Until I’m the only person on Earth who truly knows you.”
I did not need my partner to be a comedian. In fact, I actively avoided them. Because in my experience, a man who ‘made women laugh’ was someone who was always ‘on.’ Usually someone with mother issues, desperate for approval.
They say that people tend to romanticize the past, be kinder to it than they were in the present.
“And I will punish anyone who tries to touch my queen,” he vowed. An oath.
“Now I believe that these things can just happen. Because I am a romantic. Because I believe in love at first sight. And because women can be rendered stupid by a big dick and a good fuck, especially if they haven’t had them in a while. They trick themselves into thinking multiple orgasms are a solid foundation for a marriage.”
“Women are the most dangerous creatures to walk this earth.”
We want the things whose instinct it is to kill us. We want the monster, even though we know he has the ability to destroy us, that it is in his nature to do so. We especially want him because it is in his nature to destroy us.
