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“My life is nothing but dead seriousness, Sonia. I have to find a reason to laugh. And to smile. That’s why after I fucked you senseless to make sure you were too dazed to refuse, I asked you to be my wife.”
“So you could laugh at me for the rest of your life.”
He reaches for my hair, running his fingers through it. “So I’d have a reason to smile.”
Swatting his hand away, I say, “The way you say it makes it impossible to hate you right now.”
“Then hate me later.”
I turn to him, searching his eyes for any sign of deceit. Something that tells me he’s laying it on thick so I’ll let down my guard. But I don’t find anything like that. “Okay,” I say. “Later.”
With his signature devilish grin in place, he produces a small bouquet of tiny wildflowers I never saw him pick. “Good girl,” he says and hands them to me.
I hold the stems between my thumb and forefinger and stare at the purplish petals before I allow myself to glance at him again. A knot forms in my throat as I see a much younger version of him doing something so similar to this many times. Small gestures that had a great impact on my heart.
Something that, even now, slams like a sledgehammer over the wall I’ve erected, and it terrifies me to my soul.
