Ruin Me by Christina Hart

Author:Christina Hart [Hart, Christina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Christina Hart

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JULY 27, 9:49PM

“You did amazing, Kitty,” I tell her, holding tightly onto her once I finish swinging her around. “I’m so proud of you.”

I set her down and hold her a few paces back from me, so I can really look at her. I’m studying her face, her posture, her aura…

And she interrupts me and says, “What the hell are you doing?”

“I’m just trying to see if you look different with all that brave all over you,” I say.

She smacks my arm and it doesn’t hurt at all. “Shut up!” she whines. “I hate you for making me do that, you know.”

“Do you now?” I ask.

She’s always been a shit liar.

“I do,” she insists, but the gleam in her eye says otherwise.

“Uh huh. Well, the crowd didn’t hate it.”

She smirks and tilts her head in mock adoration. “Oh, stop. You flatter me.”

I slide all jokes aside and look at her. “I’m serious. It was really good. I think you should do this kind of thing again.”

“You’re biased because you like me,” she says, avoiding the serious bit in conversation like she usually does when it pertains to her.

I grab her by the belt loop in her jeans and pull her closer to me. “First of all, I don’t like you, I love you. Second of all, the spotlight looks good on you. I think that’s where you should be, and I think I can share you with the rest of the world. You and those beautiful words.”

She smells like flowers and shampoo and I feel like holding her this close to me forever. As I finally exhale, she wraps her arms around my neck.

“Sorry to break the spell, kid, but I’ve read an awful lot, and my words aren’t that beautiful,” she says solemnly. “They were just typed on a whim after a dream. They weren’t even meant to see the light of day.”

I shake my head and let out a disgruntled sigh. “It kills me that you don’t know how special you are,” I tell her.

She smiles at me but it’s full of sadness, her eyes full of self-doubt and self-consciousness. “No one’s special, Joey. They just think they are. That’s the trick.”

“What is?” I ask, confused.

“Once you start thinking you’re special, that you’re really someone, you lose any magic you may have had. You become just another person thinking they’ve earned something. That you’re entitled to whatever good happens to you.” She pauses. “I never want to be one of those people. So please, for my own sake, don’t ever try to convince me I’m special again.”

Judging by her somber tone, I decide not to argue with her on this one. Only she has no idea that viewing the world in this way makes her that much more impressive in my eyes.

“Fine, Kitty. You’re not special. You’re regular. So fucking regular,” I say.

Then I grab her and pull her toward me and kiss her, so she can feel how much she means to me. And right now, I don’t give a damn who’s here.

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