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His subconscious reaction was to reciprocate my affection by kissing my finger, only to groan in frustration when he realized his mistake.
Because I was a mistake.
His greatest mistake.

"You didn't crawl into my bed in the middle of the night and fuck me like he did!"
Hugh gaped at me. "What are you talking about?"
"The monster!" I screamed, throwing my hands up. "You know he fucks me in my dreams, don't ya? He's been doing it for years!" I choked out a maniacal laugh. "Oops. Maybe I shouldn't have told you I've been sleep-cheating on you for years!"

Keeping my eyes locked on hers, I did as she asked.
"Taste me"
I was and she was even better than I remembered.

"We're not exactly on talking terms at the moment."
My brows shot up. "Even Catherine?"
"Dad doesn't let me get within a ten-foot radius of Mam," she explained with a sigh. "He thinks I'm dangerous."
"You're not dangerous," I replied, walking over to her bed and sitting down without even thinking about it. Fuck. "You're sick. There's a difference."

When she reached the landing, she did a strange, little shimmy past her sister's door, straining her body as far away from it as humanly possible, before hurrying into her room.

Liz." My heart cracked. "Flipping in and out of reality is no way to live."
"I know." Tears filled her eyes. "But it's better than living without you.
I wanted to go to her.
Despite everything, I wanted to pull her into my arms.
Because I was so damn deeply in love with this girl that it physically hurt to stand here and not hold her.

"I'm afraid to go back on them," she admitted then, giving me the first glimpse of the real her in months. “I’m afraid to remember everything."

"You keep your goddamn mouth shut about her being vulnerable or any of it,” I threatened. "Because if you ruin her reputation. I will bury you."

His whiskey eyes seared holes through my soul, and I wanted to both run into his arms and throw myself off a bridge.
He knew exactly what I had done upstairs with another boy, and it made me feel every bit the whore the monster molded me into.