Dey Bared to You RuLit Net
haven't said it. It's not the right word for you and what I feel for you."
"Shut up. If you care about me at all, you'll just shut up and go away."
"I've been loved before-by Corinne, by other women...But what the hell do they know about
me? What the hell are they in love with when they don't know how fucked up I am? If that's love,
it's nothing compared to what I feel for you."
I stilled, trembling, my gaze on the mirror's reflection of my mascara-smeared face and
bedraggled wet hair next to Gideon's ravaged beauty. His features were overcome by volatile
emotion as he wrapped himself tightly around me. We looked all wrong for each other.
And yet I understood the alienation of being around others who couldn't really see you or
chose not to. I'd felt the self-loathing that came with being a fraud, portraying an image of what you
wished you could be but weren't. I'd lived with the fear that the people you loved might turn away