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I am only a wicked man filled with demons, but she makes me feel like the sea on a stormless night—calm and clear.

“I will always choose you, Em. Over anything. I want to prove that to you. No matter what becomes of me and the monster they made me, I'll only obey you."

"I don't know what hurt worse: watching you fall in love with me even though I tried to keep you away, or not being able to pull you against my chest every single night and hold you... Just holding you would've been enough for me." He pauses and sucks in his lower lip slowly. "There could be endless versions of you, and I'd love each one as fervently and entirely."

The sound of him broken and in this state sets something loose inside me that I didn’t know existed until now. I want to burn the entire world down for what it's done to him. For what it's done to both of us.

Of course, a monster like me would find solace in another familiar. Were broken things. Broken, dangerous weapons.