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“You tell me what I can do for fifty, and I’m gonna fucking do it, because I’m not a good guy. I’m not helping you out of the kindness of my heart, and I don’t care that you’re holding a torch for my brother. I’ll blow the flame out and leave you in complete darkness if you let me.”
“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.”
“And if I catch you,” he says, stepping closer, gaze burning hot, “I keep you. Forever. Think very carefully about what you want your future to look like, Little Echo, because I’m the one with the power to make it so. Either take off your clothes and earn your next paycheck, or don’t. Run. You’ll find very quickly how dangerous I can actually be.”
“If I asked you for a million dollars right now, would you give it to me?” “In this very moment, I would give you whatever you desired.” He moves closer, reaching for one of the thin straps of my bra, and slips it down my shoulder. “I might even beg.” “Just to taste me?” “For the privilege.” Jesus Christ. How anyone could ever resist this man, I don’t know.
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.”
There’s something so goddamn enticing about hearing vulgar words from her pretty, perfect red lips.
“I wasn’t prepared for the sort of addiction you’d be.”
“You are a beacon of light, Little Echo. You shine in any room. I would never be able to not notice.”
The world could surrender to flames all around us, and the only thing I’d give a shit about was that she was with me, and I, her. That way, when our souls inevitably exited this planet, I wouldn’t have to search for hers. We’d go together.
“There’s nothing she could do that would make me stop loving her. It’s … instinctual. My soul is bound to hers.” Even if she doesn’t exactly know it. “I’d be content to just exist in her orbit.”
“If she’s dead, burn the mansion down with me in it. I am not interested in a life without the sun.”
