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it’s that humans react on pure basic instinct. Survive. Fight. Live. By any means necessary.
It’s amazing what we are capable of given the circumstances. How many stories have you read about women murdering their attackers? Children no older than ten or eleven killing their parents just to survive. We want to live. To Survive. We think we could never do such a thing but the balance between good and evil has always been a precarious thing. A slight nudge to the other side will tip the scales and once you’re over that edge there’s no turning back. You’re in a free fall, that abyss, that darkness ready and waiting to swallow you whole.
“Look at me, Silver,” Heart drawls, “stop picturing all the ways you could disembowel the doctor.”
“Little bird,” I coo, “Tell me.” “You,” she cries, “I’m yours!” “Good girl,” I drop down to my elbows, nuzzling my nose into her hair as I roll my hips slowly but no less deep, “Such a good girl.”
Alexander Silver was both my monster and my savior, but he wasn’t the villain in my story.
“Yes. Lex, I love you, though I’m sure it’ll leave me as damned as you are.”
am in love with you too,” I admit, “I never thought it possible, but I love you, little bird. All and every part of you.”
will always protect you,” I tell her, “You will always be first.” “Your city comes first,” she breathes, pressing a kiss to my palm. “Not anymore, little bird.” Her eyes open and she stares up at my face, checking for deceit in my words but she’ll find none. I never thought it possible. Weakened by a woman, brought to my knees by a single female who started out as a means to an end but became my queen instead.