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"Look at me! "
"No! "
"Please... stay."
I stopped on my heels.
"I'm not anything anyone wants. "
She pleaded, "Why me? "she asked.
She brought my hand to her face. I pulled it back and left her yearning. I knew what she wanted. I was not going to be putty in her hands.
"Please. Tell me."she let out a heart wrenched sob.
"I'm scarred, used. You tell me what I have that charms the brains out if you. I don't want you bound to me. Why? "
I closed the distance between us and brought my hand to her visage,"this is what you want .This us what you want to hear? That you're not my happily ever after, that you're not what I want to wake up to, that seeing your smile doesn't pause my thoughts. You want me to call you ugly, refuse to acknowledge you as my reason for forging on? "
"I won't bend to your will. I love you -scars or perfection. We are both broken but you complete me."
I pulled away from her and took off my shirt. "See."I murmured. I had never in a million years embraced this part of me. I stepped closer to her and stood raw before her.
"This is me. "I whispered my hand shakily bringing hers to mine. I traced the path made by the streaks of whip on my flesh. Some raw, some healed. She had fallen quite; tracing them with me,sobbing hard as I winced. Scared of her rejection, of how naked I was before her.
"You're everything I want, all that I need. Yes,you are my happily ever after. I'll let them do this to me all they want. I'll get you out of here just don't... Please don't ask me to leave you again. I won't "
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