Page 131 of The Obedient Lie
Like the world had tilted just slightly in the right direction.
“She’s the first,” I said.
Luca looked at me.
“The first girl to really tell us apart.”
He nodded once. “The first one who didn’twantto.”
And that was it, wasn’t it?
Every girl before her wanted to choose.
Wanted to divide us.
But her?
She didn’t flinch when things got messy.
She didn’t try to fix us.
She didn’t run from our damage.
Shefucking saw it—the way we break and bend—and she still looked at us like we were something sacred.
“You think she meant it?” Luca asked, but the way he said it…
He already knew the answer.
I nodded. “Yeah. I do.”
He smiled. Just a small one.
But it stayed.
I could still hear her voice—“I won’t pick. I like you both. You’re not the same.”
She said it like itmattered.
And it did.
Fuck, it did.
“She’s dangerous,” I murmured, shaking my head.
“She’sours,” Luca corrected.
My smile widened.
And for the first time in years—maybeever—I let myself believe it.
Not just the sex. Not just the touch.
But the way she looked at us.
The way she made the lights go off and the monsters go quiet.
She wasn’t afraid of the scars.
