"You're atheist," I remind him. "You don't believe in god." "I believe in you," He murmurs, letting the cigarette hang from his lips. "I believe in whatever you believe." He says, letting the confession roll off his tongue as if it were that simple. As if god, the devil, heaven, hell-as if none of it really had meaning to him. "That's not how it works," I mutter as we walk down a few more alleyways-the city of Manhattan coated in a light blanket of snow. Henry Vitiello had never had anything to pray for, that is, until he met me-the only thing that had ever opened his mind up to the possibility of religion "Isn't it?" He argues, taking the cigarette by his middle and pointer finger before blowing the smoke out. "I'II dip my hands in holy water if it means I could touch you." "You'd probably burn." 𓆩♡𓆪 𝐇𝐄𝐍𝐑𝐘 𝐕𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐄𝐋𝐋𝐎, the reaper. He's a prick. An asshole. A pretentious son of a bitch. He's not perfect. He's not even decent. But he's hers. She could be a bottle labeled poison but he was an alcoholic, and he had drunk her empty. Now he was hungover. 𝐉𝐀𝐍𝐄 𝐈𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐒, the healer. She's known to be the perfect good girl, with perfect grades and a perfect life with a perfect family. They didn't know that behind the gated doors of their billion dollar estate, she was strapped down to a chair every night and picked apart just to be put back together in time for supper. 𓆩♡𓆪 star-crossed; adjective (of a person or a plan) thwarted by bad luck. 'star-crossed lovers' and that, they were. So they fucked under those very stars that tried so desperately to break them apart. 𓆩♡𓆪 ‼️DISCLAIMER ‼️ BOOK REFERENCES TO MARA DYER, SHATTER ME, MIND FUCK, ETC ARE ALL INTENTIONAL SO DONT BE RUDE. AS FOR TRIGGER WARN

⚠️ 𝗘𝗡 𝗣𝗔𝗨𝗦𝗘 Il est dangereux. Il ne peut le contrôler. Elle est si douce. Elle peut l'apaiser. Ils viennent de deux mondes différents, lui trop brutal, elle si sage. Mais comme un yin et un yang l'un ne peut se compléter sans l'autre. ─ Conseillé de lire sur fond noir ─ 🔔𝗨𝗣𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗘 𝗔𝗗𝗢𝗡𝗜𝗦 ─ Updates désormais de façon irrégulières ─ /!\ Toute représentation ou reproduction intégrale ou partielle de l'oeuvre faite sans le consentement de l'auteur ou de ses ayants droit ou ayants cause est illicite ! /!\ →code de la propriété intellectuelle (article L. 111-1) [Merci de respecter le travail que je fournis dans cette histoire en ne plagiant pas et en restant poli.]