You have punished me long enough, you have punished yourself long enough. Return to me. I beg.
Melissa de la CruzMaybe she'd been drinking too much of the super-sweet Mexican Coca-Cola they had down here. Or maybe she was just tired, alone, and far from home. Because somewhere in the brittle, concrete center of Azrael's dark heart, something was melting.
Melissa de la CruzIt was so nice just to live in the moment, to enjoy holding him so closely, to pretend for a little while that they were merely two young people in love and nothing else.
Melissa de la CruzI lived for those moments when we were together, those few times in my life that I actually felt alive.
Melissa de la Cruz