ʟɪɢʜᴛ ꜱᴘᴇᴇᴅ | 𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙣 𝙟𝙖𝙚𝙜𝙚𝙧
27 parts Ongoing Mature𝙀𝙍𝙀𝙉 𝙅𝘼𝙀𝙂𝙀𝙍 𝙎𝙏𝙍𝙀𝙀𝙏 𝙍𝘼𝘾𝙄𝙉𝙂 𝘼𝙐
𝑺𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒑𝒆𝒐𝒑𝒍𝒆 𝒄𝒓𝒂𝒔𝒉 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒇𝒂𝒕𝒆-𝒖𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒗𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒅, 𝒖𝒏𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒑𝒑𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒐 𝒅𝒆𝒗𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒍𝒚 𝒇𝒂𝒎𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒂𝒓, 𝒊𝒕 𝒇𝒆𝒆𝒍𝒔 𝒍𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒇𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈.
.⋆𐙚 🍒, 𝐀 𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐘 𝐨𝐟 𝐚 𝐠𝐢𝐫𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐚 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞-𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐨𝐲 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐝𝐞𝐟𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐞...
"How many times are you gonna push me away?" he asks, voice barely more than a whisper. "And how many times are you gonna let me back in before you finally realize how fucking bad I am for you?"
My mouth opens, but nothing comes out. I don't have an answer-because what do you even say to that?
There's something different in his eyes now. Something I've never seen before-raw, unguarded, flickering beneath the low light like a match held too close to burning.
His gaze dips down to my lips, then back up. A breath. A beat.
"My pretty little troublemaker," he murmurs, the words curling around my lungs suffocating me. His thumb brushes over my lips, so slowly it makes me ache. "You have no idea how hard it is for me to stay away from you."