He is right. There is no denying it, so I say nothing.
“This world will never offer you those comforts for very long, Aliyana. Sooner or later, your luck will run out, and all you’ll have left is yourself. You should find someone to love while you can and enjoy the beginning of that love because, if there is one thing I can guarantee you, Aliyana, is that love will end as fast as it began.”
I have never met this man before today, and our brief moment is just this moment.
But there is something in the sky at work tonight because when he stands next to me, I can sincerely say that I feel safe. And his words have more truth to it than I will confess to even myself.
I shrug, digesting his all too knowing words.
"I should. But the one I love will be promised to my sister soon. It took me 5 minutes in his company to see, I am not the one he wants, and I have spent 5 years loving him.”
It's the truth I had to confront today. I have known it for a while. My sister is clueless, and her innocent attraction to Marco has made it easy to turn a blind eye to the facts.
I am good at pretending blindness, I have done it my whole life.
"I gathered as much when I saw you earlier today. My brother has never been the smartest Jack when it came to choosing anything. You might just get better. So how about that wager? And no, it isn’t sex."
“If not sex, then prey, do tell what is this wager that has you so anxious you are practically screaming my name?”
utterly wicked smile as he slips his ringing phone
rings again, and I watch his screen flash ‘Killer’ as he puts it on flight mode. All the while, I remain aware
knowledge of how corrupt all of this
Him.
Me.
Us.
across the room, putting a few
from the far left of
me no option
attuned to his inaudible
depths stare unblinking.
eyes, none as full as this man has ever held
Chaos undisposed.
his unspeaking irises. The roses sweeten the air as he draws closer, while I stay, remaining here.
are going through his head as I remain stuck to the ground by just
met Marco Catelli, I wish to know just how far his
killer, Aliyana, does it matter?
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