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Darius Acrux had set out to break me from the first moment he’d ever laid eyes on me. And he’d finally gotten his wish.

'Darius’s brow pinched and I knew what his answer was without him having to voice it. Because of course he wouldn’t have. He wasn’t sorry about what he’d done to the Vega twin he’d vowed to get rid of. He was sorry that he’d unknowingly done those things to the girl who he was destined to love.'

“Please, just be mine, Tory,” Darius begged. 
“I’d rather be alone,” I whispered. 

“If fate is so cruel as to only offer me true love with a man who could hurt me as much as you have, then I’ll go without love,” I swore. “You want my heart? I’d sooner cut it out than give it to you.”

It was time for us to choose our fate.
And I didn’t think I’d ever had such an easy decision to make in my entire life.

You’re Roxanya Vega and you weren’t built to bow to anyone,” he growled passionately.

“I don’t want you on your knees. I want you fighting me and hating me and fucking me like you mean it. You’re

“You’re going to be the ruin of me,” Darius growled in my ear and I pushed myself back just enough to look down at him.
“Not if you destroy me first,” I breathed in response as I painted the lines of his jaw with my fingertips.

“I thought you hated me?” I asked.
“I do,” he agreed. “Because you represent everything I want and everything I can’t have.”

“Because if you’re going to drown then I’m going to drown with you.”