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Category: Jodi Meadows

But in the hours that were really minutes, he didn’t beg me not to leave. He didn’t say he hadn’t meant it. When I stood, his gaze just followed me up. Then I was a shattered blown-glass blue rose, and every step away from him made my shards clatter and chime.

There’s always the option of deciding for yourself who you are and what you’ll become.

Authenticity was the key to any deception. Sometimes authenticity was disgusting.

authenticity, deception

Sam hauled open the library door.”There you are!” Whit pushed up from the desk he’d been hunched over. “We thought you two had given up on us.””Unlike some people I know,” I said, removing my mittens and scarf, “we don’t live here.””She says that now.” Sam followed me toward Whit’s and Orrin’s desks, where they worked over flat electronic screens. “But the first thing she said when I showed her the library was that we should move in.”Orrin lifted an eyebrow, oddly delicate for someone so large. “The acoustics would be terrible.

acoustics, library

I’ll be around my whole life. That’s a long time to me.

life, life-and-death, time

I hate being a teenager.””Why?””Hormones.” With a sad half smile, he left.

We danced forever, and not nearly long enough. Now that I faced him, I could touch him, too, rather than self-consciously drip through his fingers. I explored his back, fingertips discovering ridges of his spine, muscles, a place below his left shoulder blade that made him writhe, as if struggling not to laugh. I tickled him again, devouring the sensation of his chest against my cheek.

chest-against-cheek, dance, laugh, tickle

I was going to have to face the man who’d destroyed my kingdom, and the boy who was the reason.

face-fears, kingdom, orphan-queen

I’m going,’ he said, and in the temple light, I caught his determination, and that strength he got from loving me. It made him brave.

The darkness was memory.

darkness, memory, pain

I wasn’t concerned, but I was thinking that the fastest way to get your mind off him and on me would be to tell you something truly appalling about him.

cute, flirting, flirty, friends, funny, love

I do trust you.” I bumped my elbow against his, a pathetic attempt at levity, but he caught me, turned me, and held me in place. We stood dangerously close. “It’s myself I don’t always trust,” I whispered.”That’s strange.” He released my arm and took a step backward. “I trust you, but I don’t always trust myself.

tobiah, trust, wil