Cassie Bendix > Recent Status Updates

Godly advice from Grimon “You won’t know what else could be for you if you can’t let go of what was.”

“Remembering was hard, but forgetting might as well have been forgetting himself.”

Ugh, is that not the truth…😔

“He didn’t realize there could be a torture as potent as protecting her love for someone else…”

Ugh, Xander’s heartbreak is going to gut me

Their golden scars ~ “a mark in healing to remind of what they’d survived. A constant reminder of what wasn’t strong enough to break either of them. A constant reminder of her fearless sacrifice and his immense love for her.”

“Not bc she couldn’t do it herself, but bc she didn’t mind letting him take care of her.”

This dynamic in their relationship really hits home for me personally. It’s difficult to surrender your strength and really let someone take care of you.

“Enjoy the afterlife, Cato.”

But of course he gets the last foreboding word…it’s far from over.

“You have no idea the chaos that waits for you without me to hold it at bay.”

“Love made her weak, but it took courage to face it. Love made her foolish, but it took wisdom to risk it. Love made her do reckless things she hadn’t thought herself capable of, but it also brought her back to life.”

“She did it bc she loved him. It’s the one thing you didn’t account for in all your planning. You’re ancient and wise, but you’re also cold. Love is the last wildcard that exists. It is the thing you can’t account for, bc you don’t know what it means to love. You only ever saw it as a weakness bc to you, to sacrifice is weak. But it takes courage to love like that, and no one loves harder than Cece.”

“His love for her felt ancient, as if born of the last gasping wish of a dying god - a wanting older than earth and story and memory - older than the stardust that made the world. She was a spell cast in his blood - his fairy tale ending.”

“Rainer held Cecelia’s body in his arms, painfully aware of the stillness in both of them. They had always been in rhythm with each other, but now his heart beat on alone, a flat melody robbed of its harmony.”

“Some piece of him fled with Cecelia’s soul. Part of him had and would always belong to her - the same part he didn’t want back, and yet couldn’t bear to live without…why could he not keep some part of her?”

“Rain, if love was enough, I’d stay with you forever.”

“Xander had let her down in unimaginable ways. He’d broken her heart and nearly broken her will when he ended things. He hurt her as deeply as he could, but in his own way, he’d protected her. And it cost him everything.”

Xanders arc is fucking heart breaking…lover, villain, victim, protector.

Oh my gawwwwd….THE REVEALS!!

“Because I wanted to take care of you in the only way I could, Cece. You are the love of my life, but Rainer is the love of yours.” 😩😭💔

Xander as Cato’s puppet makes me so sad 😭

~ Profoundly cruel ~

He was entirely alone

Xander took one last look at his brother’s body. It may as well have been his own because he didn’t know who he was anymore.

😭💔😖

Davide ⚔️ Xander
💔💔💔

And of course Davide wasn’t the bad guy we were led to believe he was…😔

Gawd, Cato is such a bastard! Ugh! 😩

Rainers proclamation “there is no part of you too dark and scary for me to look at. No part of you is less lovely than the whole. No part of you that isn’t worth being frustrated and challenged by you daily. I’m not running away anymore. I was made to love you and I’ll never stop.” 💞💓🥹

“Not hurting anyone else just means hurting yourself.”

Welp, Rain is the first simp MMC that I’ve fallen in love with. Mark the date on the calendar.

“No one knows what to do with grief. It’s us ravenous. Grief is communal. If you don’t share the load, it will crush you.”

“You can love and respect him without letting his love define you.” ~ words of wisdom 💞❤️‍🩹

“Alone. Alone. Alone.”

“For all her fighting, she was right back where she’d been all those months ago in the cave of longings - left in the dark with only her grief and rage to keep her company.”

Oh my word…knife to the heart!
“We’re married now, so you kept me. I love you enough that I couldn’t stop if I wanted to, but will never trust you again. And that lack of trust will eat away at what love still lives here. I will be nothing to you but a ceremonial wife, an when this is over, I will take a consort and you should take one too, bc whatever more is between us is over.”

Xander 😩😭💔 he came back, but he didn’t..

“He ruined all my memories of you.”

Cato is a SOB

“It felt like their souls were born of the same star, breathed into life by the same wish.” ~ swoon 💞💫

Idk how they brushed that comment under the table so quickly. That’s just not sitting well and I’ll be shocked if it’s not brought up again…I guess we’ll see…

“Have you considered severing your bond? ~ GASP 😮 No. He. Didn’t.