Status Updates From VERSACE: The Violence Of Be...

I’m so sleepy but I’m not sure I can go to sleep until I know things are getting better.

" You have been my undoing and my becoming. I have buried you once and brought you back in every dream. You taught me that love isn't gentle- it's sharp, it cuts, it bleeds, and still it survives. "

" Wake me from this dream. Wake me now, or I'll never recover. "

" I will burn the world so you can walk on the ashes. "

" You think the devil has horns? No. He has eyes like yours. "

" Let's proceed to business. I am not here to protect anyone's fragile masculinity, and I am certainly not here to be told my place by men who couldn't even keep me safe for a single night. "

" I couldn't stop my heart from aching for him.
Because Dominic wasn't just the man I loved.
He was the storm I'd chosen to walk into.
And this time, I wasn't running. "

" Because some truths are too heavy to carry until you're strong enough to hold them. For now, let me be the onebwho remembers. "

" I hate feeling like I'm trapped in my own skin. I want to feel the ground under my feet without wondering if it's going to swallow me. "

" Take my empire. Take the blood-slicked throne I built and tear it down to the dirt. Take the Moretti name and every ounce of power I've bled for until I am nothing but a ghost of my own city. I'll gibt you my history and my future. But don't take her. "

" I didn't want to bow or whisper soft things. I wanted to tear angels out of the sky and drag them down to her bed. "

" I was always told I would get in trouble one day because of my assets. I might be tripping, but I think that trouble is now. "

" I hated him for giving me this. For being the one I ran to. "I hate you," I whispered, voice hoarse. "I think." His smirk was faint, tugging at the corner of his mouth. "Don't think, Ara. Just feel." "

" I hated him. I hated him so much that I wanted to tear him apart with my bare hands. But I still wanted to kiss the scars I bandaged. "

" Money grows on trees, but your common sense doesn't. "

" The Universe is cruel.
It took her as bait...to drag me back to the
mother, the life I clawed my way out of. "