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“Once upon a time, everything was dark, and I was nothing but pain—a wall of it, a world of it.”

“And then... there was Hannah.”

“And the world takes, and takes, and takes.”

“And we burn, and burn, and burn.”

"Harry?"
That isn't my name, and we both know it, but I pause anyway.
"I’m glad, Jackson says behind me, "that I got more than three days this time." He takes a heavy breath. "Horrible boy."

She wants the fairy tale.
She wants to believe that curses can be broken, and that broken, shattered boys can be redeemed. She wants me to be the hero of this story, and I cannot bear to tell her that I am, as I was from the beginning, the villain.

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No regrets. Suddenly, one final memory falls into place in my mind-the first time I saw Hannah. Her sister was dancing on a pool table, leather-clad and on top of the world, and then she smiled and called out, “Dance with me, you beautiful bitch.”

“But there was something about her eyes.”

I cannot make her complicit. "I won't poison you, too, Hannah. You deserve-"
"You." She doesn't let me finish. "I deserve you"
She deserves the world and the whole damn sky. She desere so much better than a man with blood on his hands can ear
give her.
"I deserve to be happy." Hannah's voice shakes. "And you make me happy, you impossible, arrogant, self-destructive, inturi-ating, brilliant, wonderful son of a bitch."

“I hated you until I loved you.”
OH HANNAH 😭

Hannah isn’t mine.
I am hers.


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“Sometimes, when I look at you, I feel you, like a hum in my bones, whispering that we are the same.”
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“You loved her mother. And she’s the one, isn’t she, your Eden?” Another theory, another test. “She’s the monster who taught Hannah not to flinch.”