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I almost give it all up. Scrap the plan. Give in to his fear. I hate seeing him like this, and maybe that’s what love is, not fireworks or grand gestures, but this quiet ache. This undeniable truth that his happiness suddenly matters more than my own.

“It’s reckless, the things I’d do for you. The people I’d kill for you. The way I’d burn down the fucking world, turn it all to ash, to keep you safe.”

Carrson, the complicated tortured soul that you are 🫶🏽

I’ve seen the truth behind the curtain, how power is built on brutality and fear. If I don’t play the devil, someone worse will.

He’s beautiful in the most dangerous, dark way. The kind of beauty that makes you want to taste it even if it might kill you.

I hoped the fire would scorch away my shame. My pain. That all those emotions would float up in the air with the ashes, but they didn’t. I breathed it in, that toxic smoke, and it settled deep in my lungs, in my soul, and it’s been suffocating me every day since.