The devil you know
He shocked himself by telling her, he never spoke about his mother.
“I’m sorry, Bane,” Emma said.
“It is what it is. It a fucked-up world.”
“Yes it is,” she agreed and snuggled in closer. Bane was happy when their conversation died and was replaced by the comfortable silence that the two of them shared. He hadn’t counted on the conversation taken such an unexpected turn. He needed to watch his tongue around his angel. Even as they drifted off to sleep, there were words on the tip of his tongue that were forbidden. Words he could never speak, but was desperate to let fly. If things had been different, then maybe. But things were as they were. Bane was not one to live in a fantasy world. If yo