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For there was never any yet that wholly could escape love, and never shall there be any, never so long as beauty shall be, never so long as eyes can see. LONGUS
sit with my thoughts and wait for them to wind around my sternum like poisonous vines, threatening to squeeze the life right out of me.
When she looks at him, the stars are no longer in the sky above us. They’re in her eyes, and they burn bright for him. The love that bleeds from her pores is palpable, and it almost relieves the pinprick of guilt I feel in my gut for not letting him in, for not letting him be a part of my family.
I’m not totally sure I should do this, but I’m in no shape to deny her anything. If she asked me to drop to my knees and crawl to her, in this very second, I would.
“You are…” I trail off, searching for words as music crescendos in my bloodstream, excited by her proximity. “Exquisite. They write songs about women like you.”
What is it about a mask, about the darkness, that’s so fucking exciting?
If you make me chase you, I will catch you.”
A father’s anger never leaves you. It molds and shapes with its heat and volume for the rest of your life.
“The universe created you with me in mind,” he says in a low, thick voice. “If I didn’t know better, I’d say you were sent by the stars themselves. Plucked from the constellations and tossed into the path of someone needing guidance.”
I had known, of course, that something dark existed within her. Like calls to like, after all.
“You are a beacon of light, Little Echo. You shine in any room. I would never be able to not notice.”
“If she’s dead, burn the mansion down with me in it. I am not interested in a life without the sun.”
After all, daylight can’t exist without the night.
It helps that she makes me feel like her god, too, even if she says she doesn’t believe in Him. She believes in me.
