Deeply In Love With The Forbidden

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m just a huma

sly. Unaware of the danger

ce was deep, smooth like midnight, and his eyes-God

, but that was the ni

s old, born and raised in London-the

priced coffee, and the kind of loneliness that

sign firm and spend most of my nights either cu

ve in monster

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tories. Not the sweet kind with princesses and fairy god

'd say, "Stay away from the forests, Evely

y wore human skin, but inside... they w

in plai

urse. Or maybe I just stopped

I me

edge of Southbank, glittering with lau

life" or some dramatic nonsense like that. She ran off moments after we got t

the carousel like some half-sketc

when I

belonged to him. Tall. Composed. Wrapped in a bla

children. He did not flinch at the sudden b

llness with sharp cheekbones and a gaze t

looked away

of grace that didn't make sense-too fluid, to

ed when he stoppe

ked. "

tched in my hand. "You're holding it

, surprised. "

" he

I said

ghtly. "And how's t

e popcorn's the hi

yson,"

then repli

e like it meant something. Like he'd heard it

ere" I

ly deciding to. He asked me about myself-smal

reading tragic love stories like they were survival manual

, but really listening. Like every word out of my mouth w

looked at his

funhouse, the mirrors flickering with disto

erving,"

are you observing?

he repli

laugh. "That's n

I didn't say

definitel

hen asked. "Can I

" I an

rd of the Forbidde

y stif

round us like it

y did you ask?"

ual, but there was something... watchful in it. "They were

ped wa

eally?

He r

r used to tell me about

id about it?" he

ere stronger, faster. That they could smell lies and rip

react. J

evil," I continued. "But that

shed. Just f

urns

was the reflection of

to calm my racing heart. "D

a step

things that make us fee

d my

ld already see every piece

mething that carved

what I expec

re you," I

he noise of the carnival faded into silence. My breath misted in the co

now him. But somehow, I felt safer in the quie

scare

gh to make m

real," I said, br

with something unreadable. "Eve

me somethin

pa

irty,"

"You don'

lied with a smirk, a

are you

s if he needed to search f

here being different c

tened. "That s

said. "Unt

ir sh

oomed and trembled

eally looked. "Why are y

I've been told all my life that your kind hat

ed. "My

Smiled, quick and

my skin prickled. "You say th

ng mine in the shadows. "You th

art s

hin. "Is this where you tell

he gap between us sh

threading through me like smoke. "But I'm still

t work properl

ally, but... energetically. Like he hummed with

" I said, but

ither. "Do

I whis

I di