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October 24 - November 2, 2023
It was all her. Deadly and stunning. Even her hatred was fucking beautiful.
“Raihn has a lot of flaws, Oraya,” she murmured, “but he knows how to love.”
“I’m fine,” I said. Mische said softly, “You don’t have to be fine.” She said it so simply. Like it was just a truth, nothing to be judged or disagreed with. I knew that she believed it, and in this moment, I loved her fiercely for that.
But one day, the things that are the most painful are going to be sources of strength.”
But that’s what happens when one person gets to shape your entire world. They can make it into whatever they want, and you’re stuck inside those walls, whether they’re real or not.”
“You have destroyed me,” he murmured. “And I have hated every moment of it, too.”
“Sometimes we need a little trouble to get shit done.”
It was frightening to give someone your trust. More frightening still to give it for a second time, after they broke it the first.
“Just want you to know, Oraya,” he murmured, “that you were the best part of it. The best part of all of it.”
I found myself trying to commit them to memory, those eyes. Like coins I wanted to slip into my pocket.
In his presence, I felt safer than I did anywhere else. And yet, sometimes when I looked at him, paralyzing fear seized me, so much sharper than the fear I felt for myself.
I was desperate to have something to love. Something to care about when I didn’t give a damn about myself.
