Violence (Antihero Inferno Book 3) by Lily White

Author:Lily White [White, Lily]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-07-28T16:00:00+00:00

Emily

The night of the bonfire meant everything to me.

Really, it wasn’t much, and I’m sure other women have experienced a moment like that several times in their lives.

It’s not like Ezra went down on a knee and proposed marriage or anything. It wasn’t like he stared up at me with hope and love behind his eyes while asking me to promise myself to him for the rest of our lives. But it was the closest thing I’d ever get to a moment like that.

He was asking me to be his alone. Admitting who I was to him and begging me to feel the same way. He was stripping the words from my heart and claiming them as his.

Ezra was giving me a moment I never thought I’d have. Not with the arranged marriage. Not with being promised to a man who didn’t want me.

The screwed-up part is I don’t think he knows how much it meant to me.

People have their futures to look forward to growing up, and although that future doesn’t look the same for everyone, there are still milestones we reach.

Getting your driver’s license for the first time, becoming an adult, graduating high school and college, getting married and having children. The list goes on and on, but for me, so many of those milestones were out of reach or without meaning.

At least until Ezra showed up and gave them to me anyway.

He gave me prom.

He gave me love.

He gave me filthy nights that I never could have imagined.

He gave me hope.

Regardless of my arranged marriage. Regardless of the bet I didn’t know about then. And in spite of the barriers between us.

I actually believed for just a few seconds that it might be possible for him to somehow change what my future looked like. I wanted to believe in him, if only for a few hours.

And I did. For a week, in fact, my feet practically walking on air while I deluded myself into believing that fate might not be written before you’re born. That, maybe, it’s possible to change direction and take life into your own hands.

A week later Ezra gave me something else I never thought possible.

He gave me a broken heart.

Not that it was his fault. Circumstances had been the cause of it.

Circumstances...and Damon.

“I need to talk to you about something...”

We were at school when he approached me that day, his eyes bright and his mouth a crooked line.

Something was nagging at him that wasn’t normal, but I didn’t think much about it at first.

Life was so chaotic at that time. We had less than two weeks left of school. Final exams were starting. Everybody was preparing for graduation and packing their things for the colleges they would go to.

Meanwhile, I was trying to decide how I wouldn’t lose my mind when Ezra left for Yale and I began my journey across the world.

I didn’t want to leave. Couldn’t stand the thought of that much distance between us, but I knew it was the only choice I had.

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