The Price of a Toxic Love

for love that had never been there in the first place, while growing up. This surrounding of her heart, she grew up ar

nobles, he was the singer with voice that is hypnotic, and everybody in town knew

rand estate that belonged to his family. But at the beginning, she just dismissed it, it was something that first

a too brief time for a smile. A bouquet of roses at her doorstep, notes that were so beautifully written that made he

e was something disarming about Donald, someth

vening, painting the sky with colors of orange and

inner. "as there no expectations, no pressure. w

but subconsciously she had known she was on the losing side. His eyes looked so

ally breathed o

eyes with triumph. "You won'

ra knew no better: this was just the start o

. Everyone had found their way here to wait in a corner beneath a blackboard covered with notes, soft music in the bac

ly, "you look beautiful"

t look too bad yourself,' she said to h

of music, his dream for songs in the future who will live if he lives. In turn, he listened intently as

e unlike any one I've ever met.' "I want to be lik

his moment was real, but Dora knew. She was safe

ir as Donald reached for her hand. He turned to murmured, 'Dora'. "I know y

om her as if she were the only woman that counted. And in that momen

er melodies till late nights, and then left voice notes of him playing them with pieces of his heart in it. On long drives to nowhere, he sang along with the radio with h

one night, he whispered: "You're my world, Dora." "I don't know what

ve that she had never felt before. It was in that belief that she gave him h

both the most beautiful drea

g was a whisper

friend's birthday party. It was fleetingly unpleasant and something about i

and asked, "Doubting? Me?" "It doesn't matt

e thought of her health being forfeit for his, if

st, of other women who had been so taken with his charm that they were left broken hear

Donald was angry, super sharp, his voice more so than she had ever heard before. The next day, roses and an a

ble to overcome all that one would want to conde

ave no red marks, on

e knew the greatest danger was in the

alls into Donald's arms even deeper. However, secrets do have a way of revealing