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“Please just do this for me. I never ask any of you for anything.”

"Whether it was love or duty that kept me shackled here, the lines were too blurred to differentiate, but one thing I was sure of was that I would never become to them what Darren had become to me. I would never abandon them. If I could do nothing else, I would spare them that pain."

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“You were like an island. Somewhere for me to go and escape. Somewhere safe. Someone to anchor me, if that even makes sense...”

“Listen, I want you to know something,” he said quietly, clenching my hip with his hand. “I want you to know that you’ve been the best part of my day every day since I was twelve years old.”

“Pain,” he roared into my face, eyes alight with temper as his shadow danced with his demons. “On the outside. On the inside. All around me. Pain so fucking strong I’m drowning in it!” .... “That’s what I feel. That’s all I feel. All the fucking time!”

THIS HURTS

“I don’t run, remember?” I shot back, reaching across the table with my palm up. “And neither do you.” Joey stared at my outstretched hand for a long moment before placing his on top of it and entwining our fingers. “I guess we’re both too stubborn for running, huh, Molloy?” “Or too in love.” “Yeah,” he agreed, tone gruff, as he pressed a kiss to the back of my hand. “Or that.”

“What’s it like?” “What’s what like, Shan?” “Being in love.” She sighed, resting her chin on her small hand, thoroughly invested in the conversation now. “What does it feel like?”

“Don’t hate me, Molloy,” Joey mumbled, falling into the passenger seat the moment I let him go to open the car door. “You’re all I have to wake up for in the morning.”

“I took a chance on that boy, and I’m glad that I did because the man that small boy turned into is a man who I am damn proud of.”

“Because the only time that I allow myself to feel anything is when I’m with you.”