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Story: Red Obsession

“What are you thinking about over there?” Izel asks, rubbing her hand against my cheek.

Glancing down, I can’t help but smile. Being thankful that she took a chance on anogrelike me.

“Do you remember the first thing you ever said to me?” I ask.

"I think it was something about you being big,” Izel murmurs tracing along her handprint tattooed across my heart.

“Wow, you’re big,” I finally answer, placing my hand over hers against my heart.

Izel giggles, causing me to chuckle myself.

“I mean you are, Zion.”

“I fell in love with you then, and I never stopped.” Suddenly Izel snaps her head up at me.

“You’re the brightness in my dark world,” she mumbles, pressing her lips against mine.

“You saved me.” It’s the first time I told her, but it won’t be the last. Izel might have brought baggage into my life, but her problems I can and want to deal with. I don’t care what they are or who is after her. She will always be mine.

Mine.