Status Updates From Feathers So Vicious (Court ...

“It’s silly, I know. But then again, we already established that I’m a foolish girl. Today made that quite clear. It was stupid to expect that Father would bother to get me back. It was even more stupid to hope that you would… somehow protect me.”

Yes, I was worthless. Never wanted, never loved. And how could anybody love something so deranged? So broken? I looked into his pitch-black eyes, my throat strangling tight. “No matter how much you want to hate me, it’ll never measure up to the loathing my father clearly harbors for me. You think you rendered me worthless? Don’t flatter yourself, Malyr. I was born worthless.”

“Maybe you are already a little bit cracked, a little bit broken. Look at me.” His words fractured something inside me, splintering away on my dignity, my sanity, my sense of value as I looked at him. He must have seen the damage somewhere in my eyes, that cracking of my soul, because a guttural groan ripped from the chest that held his black heart.

Malyr’s gaze slipped to my lips, head tipping sideways in that strange way of his. “You… long to be kissed.” He wasn’t wrong. “Not by you.” “No?” One silent second passed. Two. Three. “On your knees, then.”

“I will come for you. May it take a year or a lifetime, I will come for you. Then I will shatter you into a million pretty pieces.” His lips brushed over my templ “But instead of leaving you wrecked and ruined, I’ve decided that I will put you back together in my grotesque image. Will take your pain and pleasure, your tears and blood, your moans and screams, so I may put you back together… all… wrong.”

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