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In the deepest recess of nized thishim

And I was the only thing that made sense

And yet, I couldn’t stop

I didn’t pull ahen he deepened the kiss, when his hands tugged at the button ofthehs

I arched at his touch

“Everything,” he said harshly as his hand”

“Wh-what?”

I bucked against his invasiveness, at his harsh words, and still, I stayed there as he kissed ers worked me in that dark room

A whimper passed my lips; he captured it with his

I’d missed him

I’d missed this

A tear slid down ainst his shoulder

He shoved me back, pulled up my jeans, and sneered “Thanks”

“Wh-what?”

“I just wanted to prove a point”

“What?” Panic seized my chest

“Yeah” He adjusted himself “That I could say no to temptation, no to addiction, that I was okay and you weren’t I’ will go back to normal” His lips twisted into a cynical half-smile “I think I’ll put a countdown in my phone”

I don’t kno long I stayed there, in that rooers

His words

I slid to the ground and hugged my knees

And then someone tapped my shoulder

I jerked back

It was Sookie

The makeup was off his face

The tattoos visible on his hands as he slumped to the floor with me and handed me a flask

“How do you even—“ I stoppedyou do surprises me anymore”

He shrugged

And once I took a swig and handed it back…

He grabbed my hand and held it while I cried on his shoulder

Part Three