Rum on Fire

,,You don't want to get involved with me." she said quietly as he removed the thin strap of her dress from her bare shoulder.

,,Why do you say that?" he asked and kissed the same shoulder, gently.

,,I'm not a good woman, Thomas." she closed her eyes and raised her head enjoying the light kiss.

,,I wouldn't exactly say that I'm a good man." he spoke and proceeded to remove the strap from her other shoulder.

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A college student with a dark past, Martha never thought that the power of attraction could be so strong until her eyes layed on Thomas, a dark, older and mysterious man whose dominance challenges her just the right amount.

Both broken and poorly and wrongly repaired, both grew up in the dark and now live in it and both decisive of what they want and that's each other will end up on a path which is under constant threats of the secrets that haunt them.

Fairytale is far from what their story is. Realistic relationship not hiding the ugliness of hard lives and a man and a woman with unexplicable personal demons who may be too similar to each other for the story to work out. So, can love really overcome all obstacles if sometimes the love itself creates them?

,,She was the rum, he was the fire. We all know what happens when alcohol burns."

TW: This story contains sexual content, abuse mentions, substance use, mature language and age difference. If you are not comfortable with that please do not read.