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Never again. Some of that was learned and some of it was
natural. But when we were married, no, fuck, when we were
together, I felt like maybe I belonged to you.”
She couldn’t deny it any longer. She was standing here, and
this was what had driven her to be on this doorstep. To come
to Coralyn.
Instead of melting at the soul-wrenching, heart-bleeding
declaration, Coralyn shied away, her eyebrows pulling down
into a slash, her lips parting in surprise. “I don’t want you to
own me,” she whispered, real fear in her tone. “I’m afraid that
all you want to do is possess me. I’m not a thing. I’m a person
with will and emotions and a life. I don’t want that to be taken
over.”
“I don’t want to take you over. I didn’t mean belong in a
possessive way. I understand why you would think that.
Because we have rough sex together. But last night, there were
moments where it wasn’t just that way. Where it wasn’t just
me giving orders.” She swallowed past the rising emotion that
she couldn’t contain. Her heart felt like it was bleeding out
from all the invisible wounds and hurts that had gutted and cut
her into shreds over the years. “All this time, I didn’t want the
money or whatever renown came with that, or all the shit in
my house. I wanted the one thing I told myself I couldn’t
have.”
“What’s that?” Coralyn’s knuckles turned white on the edge
of the door. “Love?”
“I don’t know. Maybe that’s too big of a word for now. But
for the future? I’ve been lost. Everyone has always thought
that I’m fine, but I’m not fine. I’m not ice. I’ve been feeling all
this for years, I just couldn’t process it or bear it. I’m not just
