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What did I do that set me on this trajectory of my life quicker than any curve ball? I fell in love, that’s what.
Even from this distance, I could make out dozens of stars running up and down his heavily muscled arms, all different sizes, before disappearing under the fabric. Stars in between – I squinted – were they planets? Words? Squiggles?
It’s gonna be my number, Star. Five. I’m the fifth planet. And then he’d kissed me, and I forgot anything after that.
“He’ll get you pregnant with that wink.”
Because if I was the question, Marnie Matthews was my answer.
“Starlight, star bright,” I breathed into her mouth before capturing her lips with my own. I sucked, tasting her like I’d wanted to earlier, like I’d been at sea for years and had finally reached dry land. Like she was the lifeline I never knew I needed. No, that’s bullshit. I’d always known she was my lifeline.
“Because I’m about to fuck you like I need to make up for the past fourteen years, and I have no plans to be gentle. Then I’m going to do it again.”
“I don’t… I don’t think I can move. I think you’ve killed me.” “Funny,” I kissed along her shoulder, “I was going to say I’ve never felt more alive.”
After weeks and weeks of resisting him, I couldn’t ignore it. He owned me, body and soul.
