Page 171 of Dark Little Game

“Love you too. Now take me home and fuck me so I can feel normal again?”

“That’s the plan.”

As we walk home together, I’m thinking of another plan I have, too.

And he doesn’t know that I have a ring picked out for him that’salsoa radiant shade of gold.

I might wait until we graduate to pop that question.

Or I might get too impatient and do it this summer.

But both of us know it’s happening, sooner or later.

I’m certain that I’m woven together with Hunter by fate. That his flame will burn inside me forever, and mine inside him.

Wild, hot as fire, and always a little broken. That’s the way we love.

Andexactlywhat we’re made for.