Twelve of Roses: A Dark Standalone by Natalie Bennett

Author:Natalie Bennett [Bennett, Natalie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BB Books
Published: 2021-03-06T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Present

How could she do this to me?

I paced back and forth, balling and un-balling my fists. She was pushing me on purpose. I knew her. I broke my ribs apart and pulled pieces of me out to make her.

Rose was mine, mine, mine. She was the altar I was forced to worship, beautiful like sunshine, but just as cancerous. She was a sick fucking poison invading my lungs. She was a tumor I couldn’t get rid of.

I needed her. This life wasn’t worth living without her. Didn’t I just suffer four years for this woman? Let her have some illusion of freedom by pretending I was nothing but a crisp corpse rotting in the ground?

Rose-Mary told me to pick her. I wasn’t going to. I was going to find someone else, but she said there would be a sign when the time was right.

Rose-Mary was the first woman who got my dick hard and taught me how to treat women in general. She would come into my room and ride me real slow while whispering in my ear all the things I should do to her. She loved when I smacked her around and busted her lip or blacked her eye. I never had my real mom around, and she stepped up to raise us while being a dutiful wife to my father.

“You’ll find your own Rose someday,” she’d whisper, licking my neck, and then she’d tell me how I would know which Rose was the perfect one.

Number twelve was always the end goal. I never asked why, but my dad agreed, so I just went with it.

I carried Rose-Mary with me in my heart while gathering up my Roses as fast as I could to obtain the one that completed the dozen.

All until the day I saw her. That was when I saw the light. The second she smiled at me, the fixation began. None of the Roses had lasted exceedingly long, but I knew this one would be different. This one was special.

The second time I saw her, she had tears rolling down her cheeks. I was standing in the courtroom, waiting to hear my father’s bail for running her mom off the road. His defense was being drunk. That was all bullshit, though. He knew what he was doing.

The pretty redhead had been too hysterical to notice me right then. It wasn’t until some woman beside her leaned down to comfort her that I heard her full name for the first time.

Roselynn.

I knew it was fate. This beautiful girl were meant to be.

I wasn’t losing her again. I had to finish what I started so she could come home. I stared down at my next victim, a woman sleeping soundly in her bed. She was none the wiser that I’d been in her house since she came stumbling in drunk. She forgot to double check her back door before going through her nightly routine.

I watched her eat supper, take a shower, and climb under her sheets to fall asleep.

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