False Best Friends
he began, “I want your love for me to surpass your love for anyone else, your mother, the exception; I want you to want only me, come to only me, give your hands to only me, kiss only me, see only me, use only me, hold only me… I don’t want you to have anyone else but me; I want you to make me your servant, your slave in love, to do with me as you wish; use me to hear, use me to see; make me all yours, Joan, if not, I will never be satisfied with myself.”
She didn’t realize she was shedding tears until she tasted salt. She felt overwhelmed. What did she do to have someone like King? To have someone love her so thoroughly and so purely? Someone so desperate to be loved the same way by her.
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