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“That’s it, pretty girl. Give it to me.”
real emeralds have flaws, sweetheart. Just like the rest of us.”
“There’s no one like family, Evie, and there’s no place like home. We have to stick together.”
“Now that’s a beautiful name.”
“I’m not quite sure who you think I am,” he whispers. “But clearly you’ve mistaken me for someone who gives a fuck about what you want.”
I’m not a dog you can bark demands at, sweetheart.”
“I beg to differ.”
“You’re right,”
“Tell me to sit and eat like a good boy, and I swear to fucking god I’ll do it.”
“Brayden can’t help you. He’s assured me that he’s incredibly adept at following directions.”
“Isn’t that right, pup?”
I realize then that Evelina Westerly is not one of the good guys. And she absolutely cannot be saved.
I’m the villain of her story as surely as she is mine.
“I want you to get down on your knees and lick my pussy like a good pup.”
you were like her, then there wouldn’t be a you.”
“Jesus, pretty girl. You could ruin lives with a smile like that.”
“Sweetheart, you can call me anything you want if it means I get to sink into that sweet pussy again.”
“You don’t have to trust me, Evelina. But words are your safe space, the same way that they’re mine.” My fingers thread through his hair. “Let me be your calm in the chaos, pretty girl.”
“You know, they never even found her body,”
“Give me your words, pretty girl.”
“I want your little love spells.”
“I’d kill them if they touched you. This is mine,”
It’s that smile again, her real one. Rare and so beautiful.
“the only love you can count on is the way you love yourself.”
But if I’m her calm, then she is my chaos, and if I can’t live with her forever, then I don’t want to live at all.
It would have hurt less if he shot me.
I would pick her a thousand times over, even if it meant rotting in hell.
“I didn’t know that I could love until you.
“Listen to me. I won’t ask for your forgiveness.” He glances at the door before locking his frantic eyes back on me. “I don’t want you to forgive me right now. I just want to know you’re out there and there’s a chance. That one day, maybe we’ll meet again, and I’ll walk up to you and say I’m Nicholas Tennyson Woodsworth, my favorite color is blue, I hated school, and I am so fucking in love with you that I can’t imagine living in a world that doesn’t have you in it.”
“This life’s not my dream. Not anymore.”
pretty girl.”
“I’ll be whatever you want me to be.”
“I’m so fucking in love with you, Evelina Westerly,”
“Every wretched piece?”
“Every single one.”

