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Stark grey orbs capture me, twisting something low down in my stomach as she looks at me, like, really looks at me, sees me.
Eli holds out a perfectly prepared martini –minus the olive- to Charlie who proceeds to drop one of Pat’s beady little eyeballs into it, the clear liquid sloshing over the rim of the glass. Eli screws his face up in disgust holding the glass out as far as his arm will stretch, before handing it over to me. I hold the glass up into the air, peering into it from the bottom of the glass, coming eye to eye with Pat’s. I chuckle to myself.
This guy is a fucking psychopath and I mean, I should know; I’m one too.
can already feel myself being drawn in with the tide and dragged under and I really hope she decides I’m worthy enough to be drowned by her.
she’s the queen of her darkness and I can only hope I get to be the slave that surrenders to her every wicked whim.
Thing is, it’s a real possibility that my half-dead heart could start to beat itself back to life with one of the men in this room, possibly with both of them... should I just cut the bleeding bitch out right now and offer it up to them to ruin? Send the last broken pieces of me off into the ever burning blackness of damnation? Do I give this up now before it starts, before it gets messy?
Those liquid gold eyes make my heart flutter and my toes curl and my demon claws at my chest to spring free, she can feel Kacey’s monster and she wants it.
The last thing I feel before I submit to the darkness is a pair of strong hands banded around my broken body, like they’re trying to hold me together. But the thing is, you can’t fix what’s already broken. And I, I’m already broken beyond repair.
Dillon is Charlie’s pet duck, well, not pet, Dillon is, was, his companion. Dillon died a really fucking long time ago but the thing about Charlie is that he can’t let anything go. Once he has something that is his, it’s not going anywhere, even in death. So, Eli had Dillon taxidermied, taxidermed? Is that a word? Oh, fuck, I don’t know! But he had him stuffed and shit so he was preserved and then Eli made wooden training wheels for him, sort of like a little cart, so Charl can drag him around his torture dungeon without having to touch his pretty white feathers with bloodied hands.
I’m never letting them go. Even if I have to kill them and stuff them and drag their lifeless, beautiful corpses around on wooden wheels for the rest of my life then I will.
It’s weird isn’t it? That voice inside your head that’s actually just you but that feels like someone else? Like there isn’t actually a person sitting up there prattling out shit to me, it’s just me, my subconscious spewing shit that doesn’t make it from my brain to my tongue, shit that’s better left unsaid or words that aren’t socially acceptable.
I have a demon inside of me. But is it just an extension of myself or something else entirely? Is the demon really just my tarnished, shadowed soul?
Unrequited love, be it in the form of a parent, sibling or lover. Nothing is more gut-wrenching than that of a broken heart.
Charlie is my entire life. He means everything to me. Everything.
The experts say there’s only three types of bleeding, capillary, arterial and venous. But there’s a fourth Emotionally.
I’m his reason for breathing, like the planets orbit the sun and I’m his sun.
‘burn it to the ground, burn it all, burn the world, show them you won’t take their shit lying down, burn it all down.’
Love hurts. Love cuts and breaks and torments. Love shatters even the most solid of people.
In some strange sort of way, my soul knows them, whether from another life or not, I don’t know. But when their souls meld with mine they’re like the kindling to my flame, they spark something inside me that no one else could ever replace and continuously build me up.

