Melanie Holzer > Recent Status Updates

dude! she’s always wet! like always! maybe she needs to get her bladder checked?

chapter 20
relax, he said, dropping a kiss on the top of my head. i’m not going to ask you to marry me, i promise. just consider us two insomniacs looking for safe harbor for a couple of hours.

‘i know you love me, zev.’
his hand stills. he doesn’t look at me when he says, ‘that doesn’t mean i can be with you.’

i flinch. somehow, i manage to contain my so . he doesn’t move a muscle, doesn’t say another word. he ended the conversation like he ended everything else between us.

‘you like them?’ he growls, pressing closer. ‘i’m feeling more and more inclined to eviscerate them.’

sometimes, it’s the lies we choose to believe that let us keep moving forward.

continued..
‘the palace gossips about their inept prince, smitten with his wife.’
‘and you want me to rid you of this spell?’
‘absolutely not. i want you to help me cast the same spell on her. tell me how to make her ache for me. the same way i do for her.’

‘how exactly does your wife drive you insane?’
‘she’s cast a spell on me. when i’m away from her, she’s all i can think about - what she’s doing, if she’s eaten, if she’s happy.’ his voice pitches lower. ‘if she’s thinking about me.’
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‘and when she’s with me, my heart doesn’t know peace until she’s in my arms. i can barely function.’

maybe i forgive him too easily. or maybe i’ve just missed him.

he’s dragging me i to uncharted depths along with him, a persistent, dangerous undercurrent that’ll swallow me whole if i’m not careful.

if so much as a gentle breeze dares to touch her, if even an invisible splinter pierces her skin, you will each suffer a slow and brutal death.

his smile is soft, and a warmth fizzles inside me that has nothing to do with the crackling fire.

tides, the man has lost his mind.
and i’m not about to help him find it.

description of sura’s smile by daak:
‘you forgot her smile. near permanent on her face. and lopsided, as if one side of her mouth couldn’t match the excitement of the other.’

chapter 36

i was born at night but not last night

chapter 36

One of my best was my sassy southern mouth and i gave her the reins. you’ve got all these pack members as nervous as cats in a room full of rocking chairs.
bringing that creepy ivan here and smiling like you didn’t just drop a turd in the punch bowl.

chapter 25

we might not get another chance and the jobs won’t blow themselves

chapter 24

it took a hot minute to get everyone to stop trying to kill everyone else but i was well passed pissed when the cell finally got quiet enough to let them know it.
‘Honest to goodness I’ve never seen so many grown ass adults throw one fits like it’s an hour past your damn nap time. now y’all hush the hell up before I kick your asses.’

chapter 22

And damn I was turning into a pervert

His grandgrin already has me at ease. ‘First off, you’re perfectly capable of saving your own ass, though it is nice to be needed. And second… I won’t lie to you. Ever. If we burn – we burn together.’
‘You mean it?’ A tear slides down my cheek.
‘With all my soul.’ He nods. ‘Until the last breath leaves my body – and even after that.’

I don’t feel so brave anymore.
I feel less than clever.
I’m small.
I’m just a girl wishing her dad said he was proud, a girl trying to prove herself to a man who will never approve of her or love her. A man who hurts her instead.

‘That’s not true. I just panicked because every single moment I’m with you, I fall hard harder, and I realize I may not be able to do it, Aric! I may not be able to save everyone, and for once I want to be really selfish. I can’t live in a world where you don’t exist!

My lips leave behind a sheen of frost everywhere they touch, like my body’s marking her – claiming her – not with chains or force but with everything I am. With the monster she swears can give her life.
With the choice I never thought I had.
I don’t choose death.
I don’t even choose life.
I choose her.

‘Now can I please… wreck you the way you’ve been wrecking me every night you climb into my bed and cling to me like I’m the only one in the world who makes your heart beat?’

I grin. ‘You’re welcome to try me.’
He leans over, so close it’s almost like he’s kissing my neck. I think I already have.’

her eyes lock on mine. ‘If the monster knows it’s a monster, then it’s capable of being something else, don’t you think?’

his forehead lowers to mine, heat and cold colliding between us. ‘Runes are powerful, Rey. They’re the only thing keeping the monster asleep. Who knows what I’ll become the second they stop suppressing me.’
I swallow hard, the truth burning in my throat. ‘Sometimes I think… I was meant more for the likes of a monster than a man.’

our breaths mingle, the air is steaming between us. The white in his eyes softens, and he doesn’t look like a monster. He’s gorgeous, like lightning trapped under ice. I lift my hand, press it against his, and his grip tightens like he can’t let go.

I rubbed my sore eye. ‘ right, it definitely tracks that I went over to your room, picture lock, grabbed your feisty little body, careful not to forget you’re very Rey-Stjerne-like cat mug, and decided to use you as a teddy bear. Do I look like I want to sleep with a prickly, knife wielding cactus?’

i’m talking about the soul-crushing sort of holding where you know the person has been searching their entire life for you. That even one second in their arms would be better than never having them at all.