She Took Him, I Took Their World Novels & Stories

he whispered into her dreaming skin. “And I will burn the world before I let anything take you from me again.”

"You took what's mine. Now I'll take her." And the doors flew open—

The transaction was a smooth one, because my opinion was not being considered here, rather, my father’s selfish quest was all that seemed to matter at the moment. “From now on wards, she is yours.” I wonder if my father knows this man. There weren’t acting as though they knew each other, and the man seemed to be a man of few words. He wasn’t doing the talking, and my father was neither making big talks here. He wanted it smooth, and it had just worked out, because I wasn’t mad enough to fight my way out of the hall and flee for my dear life. “Take her to the van.” The man said, and the man on suit held my hand and dragged me out of the hall.

The sea below was a violent surge of waves, dark and bottomless. I turned one last time to look at the chaotic crowd, almost imagining Timoteo rushing toward me. He taught me how to shoot, how to kill, and how to be ruthless, but he never taught me how to stop loving him or forgive myself. I released my grip on the rocks and let my body fall backward into the tumultuous sea below. The moment the water engulfed me, the world grew quiet. This was for the best. From this moment on, we owed each other nothing.

She asked hopelessly. "Wait! That Marco might wake up someday" he replied completely hopeless too. "What about us? Why did you lie to me? Why did you make me hate you when you loved me so much?" She asked. "I think I told you the answer to that question already. You are always way too good for me and you still are I don't know how I could ever let you go it was hard but it was the right thing to do. You are the light in this world and I am the darkness. I was being selfish when I kidnapped you and force you to stay with me for that one month but for that one month I wanted to feel that happiness and the feeling of being human again. the one that I felt when I saw you for that one year as my

This time, I didn't pull away. "The wedding continues," he said to the priest. "Now." The priest fumbled with his Bible. "Do you, Jude Moretti, take—" "I do," Jude cut him off, his gaze locked on mine. "I take her. To have, to hold, and to protect. Until death do us part." His eyes held a tenderness I'd never seen before. "Odessa, do you?" I looked at the man who had fought for my justice, a strange warmth spreading through my chest.

And I would burn the world down before I let them take her from me. ---

“You’re already drowning in it.” She circled me like she was inspecting a piece of fruit she wasn’t sure was ripe enough. “He should never have brought you here,” she continued. “This is a world you don’t understand. His world. Our world.” “You mean the world that rejected you?” I shot back before I could stop myself. Her smile froze, just for a second, before sharpening into something colder. “He told you,” she said. “How sweet of him.” “He told me enough.” I hissed. “So whatever you think you have up your sleeve won't work. You might as well drop it before you're in it too deep.”

He keeps pounding, driving deeper, harder, rougher. He’s lost in her. She’s lost in him. And the rest of the world? It doesn’t even exist. Not anymore.