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oes that say about me?

The weight of theagainst the bark of the tree as I descended I wasn’t about to throw Big O a funeral, but I was a good girl I returned irl

Anteros stopped talking on his phone and stared into the trees again, one hand clasped behind his neck pensively, bicep bulging Even yards away, his gaze stripped me of my clothes Just when I was certain he could see , tan fingers slid across the glass surface

That thing happened—that uniquely Anteros thing—where ht I would boil alive His fingers had been one of the first things I noticed about hih Dichotomous—like him I couldn’t help but reht breeze tickled what little skin I had showing on the cold night and I rubbed htO and I sed olf balls

I’ fucked up

Snapping twigs echoed aroundto the patio—elow Hair flew into my face as the breeze kicked up and I quickly wiped it away as my hand went to my blade

Another sound

There

By the trees, where the street laht was suffocated At first it was nothing more than a shadow, but thenratcheted, and I kneondered if he could sense me all the way by the door the way I felt him now The air vibrated ere in the sa too close to speakers at a concert

I should have run away, but I was prisoner to my needs and only he held the key to set me free

“Co I’d just killed so

Anteros eht, and I sucked in a breath that got lost in reen that had haunted my dreams, except here it was real Our eyes locked and for a briefa drug and juerous I had the urge to get onhim

To beg for punishment

His gaze flicked to the dead, exsanguinated body of Big O Surprise flashed in his bluegreen depths and vanished just as quickly, replaced by so else: satisfaction I wanted to tell hi—I didn’t plan this—but his red lips curved in a cruelly sensual way and when his eyes flashed back tomy core ache and weep

I rereat earthquake that was going to shake California It hadn’t happened yet, but everyone kept waiting for it That hat I saw in his eyes: a cocksureness ateven as the earth shook beneath us

Anteros walked over the stained red concrete, rin as he reached me My heart thumped so fast, so heavy, I wondered if it would bruise e The sht too dark The ground too wet I couldn’t breathe If I touched him, I was fucked But as our stares collided, I realized I would never escape him, could never escape him, because my heart beat inside his chest

I closed the distance, reaching for him

Still wearing a wicked grin, Anteros reached for the pendant and lifted it froers at hasps

“You’vethe silver chain of the necklace “You’ll pay for that”

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At first Anteros thought Frankie was a ghost The way her hair caught the ht and her eyes pierced the darknessfro more than twenty-four hours a day, thirty-one days of constant, aching need manifested

But then she moved