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When the devil chuckles, the world tilts a little on its axis, and somewhere, someone makes a fatal mistake.
I look at the mark, thin and clean. I know from experience this won’t scar. It’s the ones you cut deep, the ones that are ragged, the ones you make over others that are still healing: those stay forever.
“At first it was against my will,” I tell her. “But now I’m all in. I have to have you. Even if it blows up my life.”
Our madness aligns in all the right ways.
“Why would I do that? We made an agreement. You can work here as long as you want, if you don’t mind me camping out in the corner. I’ll admit, it’s not just to protect you. I have to be around you. I’m addicted to you. You fuel me, you light me up inside. Just knowing you’re in the house enlivens me. I can’t go back to the way I was before. I’m afraid of it.”
Cole looks at me. “Are you ready to kill him yet?”
“I want revenge,” I mutter. ”But I don’t want to take it. I don’t want to give in to it. I said I’d always rise above, I swore it.”
I’ve never met a real hero, I don’t think they exist. Only a monster can protect me.
“Fucking hell,” Cole breathes. “You’re a goddess.”
“You’re a sadist.” He kisses me, biting my lip hard enough to draw blood. “You fucking know it.”
I was never a man who had to tear a woman down to shine bright beside her.
