Those fake blue eyes stared back, mocking me. At least the tears didn’t show. Thank God. Instead, they ducked back into my eyelids as I tucked my sadness back into my core.... The more my mind flew off in one direction, the more my sanity shattered into pieces that no one could sweep up and glue back together.

You’re not going to start screaming sonnets outside my bedroom window, are you?”He winked. “I just might.

...my desire for him exploded into a great hunger. I was dizzy with it.

Pleasure and pain.That was my Melody.She was my poisonso toxic, when sampled,yet,so sweet...

I think I could have loved you.

Your arousal is like the sweetest perfume I’ve ever smelled... I can sense it all around me — tingling against my skin, thickening your blood and shoving me off the edge of insanity.

I could fall in love with you and have no regrets... I want you so bad. You’ll never understand how much.

Would she flee if she knew the thoughts I kept in my mind? My hands went to her flat stomach. My fingers sank in the soft tan flesh around her waist. One day her belly would be full of my children and her mind would only be focused on me.

...and the sorrow sent her spiraling back into sickness.