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To all the girls who go weak in the knees when he says, “You’re doing such a good job, baby.”
When thrown into chaos, people do things they never would under normal circumstances. The animal brain takes over. The filters come off. People reveal their true desires, and sometimes those desires have a lot to do with seeing Dem or me dead. The way Gemma Garzolo is looking at me right now… I’d put her squarely into that category. Narrowed gray eyes. Pursed lips. An angry pink blush across her cheeks that might be my new favorite color.
As soon as I removed my hand, she sank her surprisingly sharp teeth into my forearm. I remember staring into those stormy-gray eyes as she drew blood and thinking, “Fuck, this woman is beautiful.”
Gentlemen don’t look at engaged women the way I look at Gemma Garzolo.
“Is that how you talk around your father?” “You’re not my father.” “No, but I’ve been called daddy on occasion.”
A server comes around to serve us bread, and I ask for two big chunks. I fucking love bread. It’s one of life’s greatest pleasures.
“You let people push you around, and they’ll keep doing it, Gem.”
“If your fiancé knew how feral you are, he’d demand a refund,” he growls. His face is so close, I can make out a tiny scar on his right cheek. “He thinks he bought himself an obedient wife, when what he’s really getting is a brat.”
If she was engaged to me, I wouldn’t squander a single second. She’d be glued to my side. If she wanted to eat, I’d feed her. If she wanted to sit, it would be on my lap. If she wanted to shower, I’d wash every inch of that perfect skin and then dirty her up again.
He’s somehow become the only good thing in my life. In the midst of all this betrayal, heartbreak, and chaos, he’s the only anchor I have left. A light in the darkness.
“You came to me last night. You wanted to be with me. Well, here’s our chance. And I’m taking it for both of us, because if I walk away from you right now, I know I’ll regret it for the rest of my life.”
When you love someone, you don’t want them to lose everything because of you. You don’t want to be the end. You want to be the beginning.
