Marrow

But it didn’t look like you, not when you were standing before me with a smile that could consume every sin.”

“Thank you so much. What’s the occasion?”
He shrugs, trying to look nonchalant, but I catch a familiar gleam in his eyes that he can’t keep from me. “You told me once I should grovel. You didn’t say when I should stop.”

you are right, lille mejer. You are indomitable. You are both the warmth of the sun and the destruction of its consuming fire

I wish I had the bravery to say it out loud, to tell him how I really feel. That I love him. I wonder if he’s ever heard it before. If he has, did the person really mean it? Or was it a deception? Would Jack know that my words are true? Would it scare him away if he did?

“Min elskede.”
“Tell me something I can understand.”
A faint smile tips up one corner of Jack’s lips. “You do understand.”
“Tell me something anyway. Something real.”
“You are mine.”
That is real.

She tangled herself in my web, and I’ll have to carve her out of me to remove her now. She’s in so deep, fused to my bones.
If that day ever comes, that loss will resonate down to the core of me. I will have no desire to survive without her.

I’m not the one in control here. She owns me. Every fiber of my being, every cell coursing through my marrow, she is the one dominating me, and I’m simply the depraved monster subservient to her commands.

This twisted love nurtured in the dark belongs only to us.

“You draw them before you kill them, don’t you. That’s why they’re not always alike,” I say as I lean closer to examine one bone and sketch pairing that are markedly mismatched.
“Yes,” Jack says as he stops by my side. He tilts his drink toward the case, the ice within clinking against the metal. “I was surprised to be so far off with that one.”
“Not more surprised than the man you took it from, I’m sure,”

“Which room is mine?” I ask, nodding toward the corridor.
“This one.”
“Then which one is yours?”
“Also this one.”
“I can stay in one of your guest rooms,” I say, tucking a stray lock of hair behind my ear.
Jack’s eyes darken. “No. You will not.”
“I don’t want to be an inconvenience.”
“You’re really going to take away my excuse to redden your ass?”
“I’m sure you’ll find another.”