You Will Be Mine

<p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>You look so peaceful in your sleep. You're my obsession my salvation and my destruction as I will be yours. You're the reason I breathe the reason I kill. I love you so much that I'll kill everyone who has ever hurt you anyone who will ever touch you again darling.</em></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I used to think villains only existed in books.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>That was before I married one. Before the bruises. The excuses. The way I learned to hide the truth between sentences.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>And before the notes started appearing.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I call him </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Butterfly Man</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>. The stalker who exists in the spaces between my breaths the corners of my vision the silence just before sleep takes me. Eight years of weaving his obsession into my life like a murderous promise.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>My demons ask if the only way to get my happy ending is to let a killer get away with murder.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>My sanity hires Tristan Morra a grumpy scarred bodyguard to protect me.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But Tristan too has his own demons.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>He looks at me with unhinged darkness like a morally gray antihero who will burn the world to keep me from falling into the wrong hands.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Maybe I already have.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Maybe I was never meant to be saved.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>In my stories villains always get the girl. But in reality-villains kill the girl.</span></p><p>Read You Will Be Mine Now</p><p></p>