Twisted Lies

“Like you’re the most beautiful, most remarkable thing they’ve ever seen.”

The words lit every molecule in my body and dissolved them into a pool of exquisite, unbearable warmth.

We weren’t talking

In my world, weakness was unacceptable, and she was the greatest weakness I had.

“You were an enigma, a puzzle I couldn’t solve.

The calm to my chaos, the silence to my storm.

“You belong with me. Exclusively. There is not a world or lifetime where that’s not true.”

“I thought it was obvious, but in case it isn’t, you’re mine, Stella.”

“I don’t want to see other women, and I sure as fuck don’t want you seeing other men.”

“You belong with me.

“Maybe not. But you’re not the villain you think you are, either.”

“Varying degrees of the same disease.”