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May 6 - May 9, 2024
For the survivors who rise like the stars.
“I need to know what they did to you so that I know how much to make them suffer when I’m given the opportunity.” He grinned in response, his love for my violence showing even in the darkness that surrounded us and the fate that seemed impossible for us to escape. “This hardly seems like an appropriate place for foreplay, my star,” he murmured gently,
She wanted to know if I saw myself as the hero of my story, but I didn’t. I only saw myself as the villain of hers.
“You can stop behaving as if she is the weakling and you are the savior.
Our world is not ready for women in power as peaceful rulers,”
“If you suffer, I suffer too. If you bleed, I bleed as well. If you die, then I will follow,”
“Sometimes, it is far easier to see the good in others than it is to see it in ourselves. Sometimes, the hardest thing to do is understand that while we are not perfect, the way we defend ourselves is not an indication of our character but purely of our will to live so that we might do the right thing when given the freedom to do so.”
I would burn the world if it meant saving him, sacrifice every shred of my dignity and morals if it meant he was unharmed.
“You are nothing to him, whereas I am his entire world. Dressed up pig or not.”
The simple question struck me in the chest. I couldn’t remember a time when a man hadn’t just taken what he wanted, touched without thought or permission.
You are my mate, and the drive to have me inside of you is something normal that should be embraced,”
He didn’t try to heal me. He just held me, loved me—jagged, broken pieces and all.
“A creature crafted from the darkness itself. All the stories state that Khaos crafted it from the night sky to be a gift for his wife, Nyx, when he created her from the stars. He meant it to belong to the one true queen,”
“You are my reason for every breath. The reason every day I have spent as a prisoner has been worth it. Because it brought me to you.”
“I would sacrifice everyone if it meant I had you,” I said, pulling his face down so that I could brush my lips against his. “So do not ever ask me to leave you. Never again.”
“I see all of you, Estrella. There is nothing left that you can hide from me, and there is no corner of you I do not love with every thread of my being,”
“You are always my Goddess, min asteren. I worship at your altar with every breath—every moment of my existence,”
The person you have become is a sight to behold, and I am privileged to stand at your side as you embark on your journey.”
“By the end of the night, you’ll be so full of cum that it drips down your thighs,” he said, and the creature inside of me purred. “I’m going to make a fucking mess of you. So before you get my cock, you’re going to come on my fingers, and then you’re going to ride my tongue.”
“Let them see the paradise I get to sink inside at night. Never again will they question why I would destroy worlds for you,”
Caldris had survived what she’d done and become a light in the darkness in spite of it, but that didn’t mean the memory of that violation didn’t haunt him daily.
“And who will save you?” Twyla asked, shaking her head. “The same person who always has,” I answered, glancing down at the golden marks on my skin as my nerves threatened to tear me in two. “I’m going to save myself.”
