The Master and the Marionette (The Pawn and The Puppet #2)
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“Kane?” His lips spread into a surprised smile. “You don’t know how happy that makes me.” “What?” I ask, smiling back. “You recognized me.”
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“What do you think you’re doin’, huh? Rubbing your scent all over my girl?!”
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Cuteeeee
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he killed Vinaley in her sleep and then hung himself above her bed. He did exactly as she begged… he took her home.”
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“You want to know something?” I ask like the words have been dipped in glue. “Hmm?” “You and DaiSzek are definitely my weakness.”
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“I’d say that’s a pretty good explanation.” His chest moves with a sharp inhale. “Skylenna, you are my home.”
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being descendants of Dark Elves. Second, we love to drink. And last, but most importantly, we love to fuck.”
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“Do you feel that?”
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“That’s what happens when you touch me, Skylenna.”
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in the asylum. My hands shackled to the wall while you kneeled at my feet. Those pretty hands grasping my arms.”
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“I am the only man that gets your eyes tonight.” He looks up at me from under a curtain of dark lashes. A scolding that tastes like pleasure and euphoria. “Understand?” “Yes.”
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“Yes, what?” “Yes, sir.” The simple response of respect spills out of me before I realize all he wanted was for me to repeat his statement to confirm what I heard. And at my words, Dessin unfolds.
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“You keep doing that, and I’ll make you regret it.” A voice of fire and brimstone. “I’ll rip this pathetic excuse for clothing from your body and fuck you until your eyes water.”
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“Apologize before I cut out your tongue with a rusted knife.”
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Please, God, don’t let this man suffer anymore. Take it all away. Give it to me. I’ll take whatever pain he has left.
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I vow to him, I vow to keep him safe. I vow that I won’t ever hurt him. I vow that I will protect him from bad people. I vow that I will always fight to make him smile.
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was trying to sneak out of bed without waking you.” “Nope,” he grumbles. “You’re mine now.”
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“Skylenna! I’m the one that won’t be able to handle it. I can bear my own pain and suffering every hour, every day. But it’s your pain I won’t survive. It’s your suffering I won’t be able to endure.”
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And in all this time, I now know I have never wanted anything else but this. And I will never want anything else but this again.
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This will end with his wrath.
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“I can handle it,”
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“Only if you believe in me.”
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“Until hell freezes over.” “And even then.”
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I’d love to live the way they do. Not caring what I ate in public. Not letting anyone tell me what my waist size should be. It must be heaven for women.
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he isn’t saving our souls before we get sentenced to hell. We’re already in it.
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“I want to see him again. More than I’ve wanted anything. But I’m starting to lose hope. It’s been months. There’s been no sign of him. And that’s not like him! He would never leave me in a place so horrendous this long. He would cross over every layer of hell and beyond to rescue me. There would be no force strong enough to hold him down.”
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“Skylenna, that man doesn’t look at you like a friend…”
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“To me, it looks like you’re the world, and he’s the moon that revolves around you. When we were all laughing at Niles, Kane was smiling because you looked happy. It’s like that’s his only goal.”