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He cuts me off. “I don’t have time for this. Get into the cage.” He’s doing what he usually does—talking over me, making me feel like I’m always wrong and he’s always right.
He’s under a lot of pressure right now with Fourth Kingdom breathing down his neck, and I don’t want to add more stress to him. I know that, at the heart of it, he craves this control because he was worried about me, so I understand the root of his reactions.
STOP MAKING EXCUSES FOR HIM OH MY GOD
For once, I need him to see my side.
I’ll never get how you fucking stand it. Right now, in this moment, I realize. I can’t.
“Did you let any of those filthy pirates touch you? Did you let Fourth’s army touch you?”
CUNT CUNT CUNT CUNT
if you didn’t betray me, then prove it. Get into the cage.”
literally give me a gun
“Get into the cage, or I’ll put you in it.”
a GUN. i will go into the book and kill him myself.
He didn’t hold me in his arms—he held me at arm’s length
“I always trust you. I always listen to you. Just this once, can’t you listen to me
“I’ve done everything you ever asked me to. I’ve been devoted to you for over ten years of my life, overlooked every flaw, shoved aside every hurt. I’ve done it all because I trusted you. Because I loved you.”
“Alright. You’re tired and hysterical. You just need to go lie down. This isn’t you, Auren.”
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
“You gave yourself to me a long time ago, Precious. It’s time to remember your place.” My place. The one in a cage. The one beneath his thumb.
a gun. a GUN.
He wouldn’t hold me for comfort, but he’ll hold me for control.
I’ve been bending over backwards for so long that I forgot I even had a spine. What a fool I’ve been. What a stupid, stupid fool. I learned not to trust people, but I thought I could trust him. I was wrong.
I can’t do this. I can’t go back in a cage. I can’t, I can’t, I—
“Do you see?” he demands, pointing at her. “Do you see why you need to stay in your cage?”
SOMEBODY KILL HIM ALREADY
“Do you see, Auren? This is why you need the cage,” he says again, his voice grating against my ears like metal against stone. “Not just to protect you, but to protect everyone from you.”
right then, I wonder how the hell I fooled myself into thinking this was love.
How did I look into his eyes every day and not see that when he looked back, he was devoted to the gleam of my skin rather than the love of my heart? How did I miss the blinding truth that’s been there all along? How did I mistake an owner for a lover
“I love you, but I don’t need your forgiveness, Precious. I just need your power.”
FOUL LOATHSOME CUNT
Gold is always worth it. No matter the cost.
“King Midas, I’d say it was a pleasure if I wanted to lie, but it seems I can’t be bothered today.”
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I don’t care if it does put twenty-four feet between us. I refuse to sit at his side like I’m lesser.
petty fucking cry baby loser
I hold the weight of wealth in my hands, and it’s so damn heavy to carry.
He will not trap me in here like an animal. I won’t let him do this to me. I will not spend the rest of my days waiting for scraps to be tossed my way.
