His Beauty Her Beast
My hands were on the edge of the seat, knuckles whitening as the weight of choice settled into the bones of it.
Finally, she wiped her face with the heel of her hand, mascara leaving dark smears on her fingertips. “You think you can keep me by scaring everyone else to death,” she said, voice flat.
I flinched; there it was again—her ability to reduce my grand gestures to simple, ugly truths. “Sometimes it needs to be ugly to be effective,” I said, because it was the truth. Sometimes you had to scare the world into behaving.
She drew in a breath, steadying herself with an ironness that had always been her strength. “Listen to me now, I will never be yours.”
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