I consider kissing her right there on the dirty couch, but self-preservation stops me. Once someone hurts you, itโs harder to relax around them, harder to think of them as safe to love. But it doesnโt stop you wanting them. Sometimes I actually think it makes the wanting worse
Holly BlackYou're not the way everyone says you are," Kaye said, looking at him so fiercely that he couldn't meet her gaze. "I know you're not." "You know nothing of me," he said. He wanted to punish her for the trust he saw on her face, to raze it from her now so that he would be spared the sight of her when that trust was betrayed. He wanted to tell her he found her impossibly alluring, at least half enchanted, body bruised and scratched, utterly unaware she would not live past dawn. He wondered what she would say in the face of that.
Holly BlackItโs hard to come up with a scheme to thwart some other scheme you donโt even know about.
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