![]() ![]() ― Rosamund Hodge, quote from Cruel Beauty Ignifex touched my cheek very gently, as if I was a bird that might be startled into flight. ![]() The dress slid down to land on the ground about my feet. It seemed forever since that first day when I had ripped my bodice open so “And I still don’t know your name.” My hands trembled as I undid my belt, then started to unclasp the brooches. “You’re a demon,” I said, staring at the ground. Very deliberately, I pulled my hands out of his. And now he did, and it felt like walking into the dazzling sunlight of the Heart of Earth.Įxcept that the sunlight was false, and his love was real. ![]() I had been waiting, all my life, for someone undeceived to love me. But I felt like I had been waiting all my life to hear them. I knew it was insane to be happy, to feel this desperate exultation at his words. “I love you more than any other creature, because you are cruel, and kind, and alive. ![]()
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