Marilyn

“He holds a copy of This Book Will Haunt You out to me. I open to the title page, where S.T. Nicholson’s signature is scrawled across the page.
To my muse, may you come almost as hard from my words as you will from my tongue.
I gulp, clasping the book to my chest and backing up.

Saint lets me leave with one final promise. “No one will ever keep me from you, muse. Including you. Even if you broke my legs, I would crawl to you.”
― Harmony West, Her Saint