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One day, she would be an inferno, and he would be the devil who controlled it.
Anger was good. Anger made her feel. Anger reminded her that she was still alive.
“The world isn’t ready to see who I would become if this—” his thumb pressed on her pounding pulse “—ever stops.”
6 months later
“You have been, you are, and you will always be my only obsession, Luna Caine.”
“The deepest desires of your heart, the softest secrets of your soul, the meanest moments in your mind. I know them all, I own them. Every desire, every secret, every thought.”
An exhale left her at the acknowledgment from him, at knowing she was valid in feeling how she felt and he accepted that.
“I will set the whole world on fire before I let anything hurt you again.”
“If there was any love in this world of mine, Lyla, it would be you.” Her heart stopped. “Dainn,” she whispered, knowing this wasn’t something he would just say casually, knowing it meant something. “I am darkness.” He kissed her softly. “I live it, I breathe it, I am it. There is no redemption, no emotion, nothing for me. Nothing but you. You’re the moon to my dark night, flamma. You’re the only thing in this black sky that can thrive when I swallow everything else whole. The stars don’t exist in this space. Just you and I. You need me to glow and I need you to exist. It’s simple as that.”
“If you ever choose another, make sure you kill me first. Because I—” he bent to whisper against her lips “—will annihilate the fucking world before I let you go.”
He’d made it his life’s mission to replace her horrors with happiness, the demons in her past with the devil in her present.
“You’re the oxygen that feeds my flames—without you, my existence is questionable.”
"With you, I would," she told him like always. "There would never be anyone else," he promised as always.
As long as she kept breathing, he would find her. As long as she kept breathing, he would bring her back. As long as she kept breathing, he would stay in control.
There is no reality where you and I exist that we don’t end up exactly where we are now. None.”
“I am the prince of this hell in every way. Fitting, isn’t it?”
She had an older brother.
Lyla stood with her devil and watched one of her demons and one of her hells be destroyed.
the absolute to his abyss.
He wasn't a believer, but she was his miracle.
Where she loved him with all her light, he possessed her with all his shadows.