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“I’m convinced that love is the best weapon formed against the heart. I know this because Romero killed me with it,” she mumbles before sleep pulls her under and I can’t stop the self hate from burning up my throat.
“Tu locura es mi obsesión.”
Your madness is my obsession.
The one person I wanted to protect is lying broken beneath my hands. We’ve ruined her heart and mind, pushed her into this hidden world of self destruction and isolation. Now I’m not sure how I can pull her back out, but I know I will spend the rest of my life digging a way out for her.
I slide onto the bed beside her, watching her sleep for hours while thinking of how I can rescue my little witch from her sorrows, before finally falling asleep with her in my arms.
When the sun warms my skin, I open my eyes and seeBrujawatching me. I turn to her, cupping the side of her face.
“Take me away from here, Alvaro. Please.”
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Vicenta
I stand on the beach, my eyes searching for something but I can’t remember what I was looking for. I gaze around me, finding open green fields on one side and the blue ocean waves on the other.
“Bruja,” I hear someone whisper, their accented voice sending a shiver through me.
“Diabla,” I hear a second voice being carried in the wind.
My heart races as I seek out the two owners of these voices, but I see no one around me.
“Where are you?!” I scream, but it sounds like my voice gets ripped away by the force of the ocean breeze.
More pleading whispers reach me.
Come home…
Come back to me…
Choose me…
Let’s play pretend…
Be ours…
Please forgive me…
Don’t let me be dead to you…
Hands whisper across my skin, sighs and moans touch my ears, caressing me, loving me, showering me.
Let us love you, baby…
Suddenly, my hand begins to shake, making me notice the loaded gun gripped in my fingers. My mind screams that I’m damned if I do and I’m damned if I don’t. I look up, finding myself alone once more as the orange sun burns my eyes. My tears fall from my lashes as the gun raises.
Stay with us…
Say you’ll come back to us…
Please forgive me…
The barrel is cold, the sorrow is hot. Sadness and guilt flows through my veins like the poison of decay. I could leave today, take the pain with me and never let it touch anyone ever again.
“I am the curse, the horrible thing that kills all it touches.”
