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Prologue

Nox

Every love story has an expiration date

I believed mine had already expired When I tuhtover

When I woke up, they toldyears of ed into machines that helped me breathe

I asked about them first Kade and June

They toldhated the out about their happily ever after I stopped giving a dah, one addiction froo

That addiction had a name – Dove Canterbury I fixated on her like I had done on June before I slowly recovered, ain It was in part what helped th to overcome all the difficulties of my new life

But I did it I got through it all with one person on ilded cage unscathed Well, not completely unscathed

I s in an alley facing a small house on the outskirts of LA It's busy here, busy and fucking hot But I don't give a shit about that All lued to it as I wait for the only inhabitant of 1490 Westwood Boulevard to show her pretty face

It's fucking gut-wrenching This e the rest of my life, and hers I knohere she lives now There will be no running anyht in the palm of my hand

As I wait, I notice a purple butterfly land on the handle of her front door She's like a Disney fucking princess too, apparently, attracting critters and shit

The door opens and out she co her beautiful face She doesn't wearShe carries herself like a woh you'd never think it froy black clothes hide her body, but from where her wrists peek out, I can tell she's thin Painfully so

She looks so different than she used to Gone is her light blonde hair, replaced with a pitch-black color I think it's her natural hair, and it looks beautiful

My cock hardens ina s in one hand I’m curious as she heads into a side alley and I stay closely behind, breathing in the remnants of her scent as I follow her I stay in the shadows,to expose oddas until she's convinced she's going fucking insane I can't fucking wait

I watch her approach a hohten I don't want her interacting with other ure on the ground She offers hi and they chat before she heads back hoht of her Six years of obsession, of dreaoddamn years, are back to haunt me And now she's here, the personification of all ertips

I' the crazed, abused boy as so angry at the world a long tiht, in the shadows, and I' to look for excuses for who I am anymore My brother and his wife think I'hting what I should have ado

I watch Dove disappear back inside her house I don't want to leave The binds that tetherme she's the one who has the power here, because she holds my sick, twisted heart in the palm of her hand

I fight the urge to palm my cock and turn my back to the house she lives in I can't stay here for too long, can't risk her noticing I have to stay in the shadows I've been patient for so long, biding ive her the ho, as long as it fucking takes Because I know she's going to end up as oddamn property