He grabbed my hair hard with both hands, tugging sharply, and looked me dead in the eyes. He was all fire and hard angles.
“I love you,” he said, his voice gruff. “And I’ll have you. Keep you. Own you. You belong to me, only to me, from now on.

“Hello?” Bird’s stoic voice answered. “Hi, Bird?” This is Dex Foray, we met back…”

“Oh, Dex,”Rebecca chided from beside me, bringing me back to reality. “Put your …”

“I once told you to leave and not to love me,” he cried out, muffled. “I’m takin…”

“I wasn’t Dex Foray. I was just this emotion that was crumbling to the floor, ho…”