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Or what if I simply opened her casket and crawled inside with her? Took her in my arms and lay with her for eternity, like I was supposed to.
The devil himself dragged me to hell with the visceral tearing of her soul from this world.
My heart shudders violently, reminding me that it’s broken beyond repair. As if I could fucking forget.
And I’m left to endure this life without her. Left with no heart and only half a soul and the knowledge that I’ll never love another woman for the rest of my days. I promised her that when she closed her eyes for the final time, and it’s a promise I will keep with my dying breath.
“The way you looked at her. Like you would hang the moon for her.” She sighs softly. “Every woman deserves a man who looks at her like that. Everyone deserves someone who adores them. Someone who would die for them.”
“But hope’s a dangerous thing, right? Sometimes I think it’s the most powerful force in the universe.”
“We can live without most things, even love. But without hope, well, we have nothing left worth living for.”
“But there’s a ray of light to be found in even the darkest of situations.”
“I have so much blood on my hands, Mia. Trust me when I tell you that ten more pints of it won’t make the slightest difference.”
she’s staring at me with an expression full of curiosity and awe—as though I’m some hero who’s going to save her. I’m not. I can’t even save myself.
She looks just like … Just like what, asshole? Just like a ray of fucking sunshine.
Now she’s invaded my every waking thought. And that ass … so fine it should have its own national holiday.
“For the record, I think your ass, and the rest of your body, is fucking perfect.”
The way it almost ripped my fucking heart out when she told me we had no chemistry—the knowledge that if I still had a heart, she would have eviscerated it.
“You don’t have to be in control here because I am. I’ve got you, sunshine. Nothing bad is going to happen when I have my hands on you. Understand?”
“No. If we stay here, the only talking you’ll be doing is moaning my name.”
“Do you trust me, sunshine?” “Yes,” she says, without a flicker of hesitation. “Then know that I will never hurt you. I will never punish you when I’m angry. I consider it a privilege and an honor to have your submission, and if we do this, your safety is my priority. Always.”
I don’t do jealousy, but that doesn’t mean I don’t protect what is mine. You are mine. If another man so much as touches you without my permission, whether you want him to or not, he will die.”
I need her more than I need my next breath.
Nothing exists outside the two of us. She is everything. Where I begin and end.
“Y-you … you love me?” He stands and wipes the tears from my cheeks with the pads of his thumbs. “So fucking much. With everything I am. I am yours, Mia. Every part of me, even the broken ones. You’re way too fucking good for me, but if you’ll have me, I will never let you spend another second of your life doubting how much I love you.”
My free spirit will be able to spread her wings, but that doesn’t mean I’m not going to protect her while she soars.
“I’m just admiring my property, sunshine. You look so fucking beautiful wearing my collar.”
“You want to know something about our first time? You felt so fucking good. I lost myself in you. And I’ve been losing myself in you ever since.”
“Please, Sir? I need you.” “You have every single part of me, sunshine. All of me. Always.”
“You have it all wrong, Sir. You might have lost yourself in me, but I found myself in you.”
“Not your mind. But I can read your body. The look in your eyes. Every single movement you make. Every shaky breath. Every tremor and tremble. Every flicker of emotion on your face tells me exactly what I need to know.”
“You deserve it all, sunshine. I’d hang the moon for you if you asked me to.”
There’s only so long you can stand in the sun before succumbing to its heat. I’m not sure anyone else could have melted my ice-cold heart the way that she has. And now she’s giving me a son too. She is fucking everything.
“Thank you, sunshine. I could live one hundred lifetimes and never repay you for what you’ve given me.”
