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That’s what cancer does. It ravages you from the inside out without caring who you are. It doesn’t matter whether you keep the world in the palm of your hand or if you have more money than God. It just feeds on death. And death always wins, one way or another.
It’s rude for him to have a voice like that and a face like he does when his soul is so rotten.
Controlling most of the world’s diamonds means you control most of the world, and a diamond is never just a diamond.
She’ll be its ruin. She’ll be my ruin. Unless I become the man she marries. The thought makes my stomach curdle.
“If I wished for it,” I murmur, leaning in until our noses touch, “I could make you need nothing but me.”
“They’re going to hunt down the lamp that will grant all your wishes, giving you both your happily ever after.”
“Your first mistake was not recognizing who I am.”
“Your second mistake,” I whisper, “was disrespecting my wife.”
Now it’s pulling us both under, and it feels so good I don’t care if it makes me drown.
“If I want to be your daddy, then I’ll take you over my knee again.”
“If I want to be to your husband, I’ll keep you at my side.”
“And if I want to be your lover, then I’ll kill t...
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“It’s easy to get lost in something when you’re cut off from everything else,”
“My love for you is dangerous.” A heavy breath whooshes from her mouth, a tear rolling from her eye, dripping over the back of my knuckles. I move, pressing a kiss to her wet cheek to soak up her cries. “I would kill anyone who looked at you. Anyone who dared to even breathe too close.” Her body shakes against mine. “I want your blood and your anger and your violence and your lust.” My thumb brushes against her bottom lip. “I want your smiles and your tears and your insolent fucking mouth.”
“I want to reach into your chest and hold your heart in my hands, making sure it only beats for me,” I rasp. “But I don’t want your firsts, Yasmin. I want your forever.”
“I’m in love with you, Julian Faraci. And I would burn the world myself if it meant I could keep you by my side.”
I’ve never felt so content. And this feeling? I don’t want it to leave. I won’t ever let it go. Because it feels like she’s choosing me. And she’s the only one who ever has.
Some people say that family is family, blood is blood. But I say that toxic is toxic, and no one is more important than my inner peace, even if it means I lose them for good.
